A new study finds that investments in R&D on materials and chemistry were key, while economies of scale contributed less.

In spreading politics, videos may not be much more persuasive than their text-based counterparts.

A new machine-learning system helps robots understand and perform certain social interactions.

Reducing the complexity of a powerful machine-learning model may help level the playing field for automatic speech-recognition around the world.

A visual analytics tool helps child welfare specialists understand machine learning predictions that can assist them in screening cases.

Researchers find blind and sighted readers have sharply different takes on what content is most useful to include in a chart caption.

“U.S. competitiveness depends less on defensive measures than on what we do to strengthen our own capacities,” says MIT’s vice president for research.

New research by political science PhD candidate Meicen Sun illuminates the broad economic and political impacts of internet restrictions.

Economists find companies’ adoption of robots is partly due to shortages in middle-aged labor.

Experiment with Facebook-flagged content shows groups of laypeople reliably rate stories as effectively as fact-checkers do.