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“If you’re the kind of person who bought something that really didn’t resonate with the market, say, coffee-flavored Coca-Cola, then that also means you’re more likely to buy a type of toothpaste or laundry detergent that fails to resonate with the market,” MIT professor Catherine Tucker says.

Are you a “harbinger of failure”?

Study: Some consumers have an unerring knack for buying unpopular products.

December 23, 2015

“In health care, there’s this gigantic world of unstructured data that needs to be translated into useable information,” says Paul Nemirovsky, who co-founded dMetrics with Ariadna Quattoni.

Detecting consumer decisions within messy data

Software analyzes online chatter to predict health care consumers’ behavior.

December 21, 2015

Science publishing panel participants included (clockwise from top left) Quincey Justman from <i>Cell Systems,</i> Stewart Bland from <i>Materials Today,</i> Rosamund Daw from <i>Nature,</i> moderator and MIT Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor Martin Polz, Corie Lok from <i>Nature,</i> Anna Demming from the <i>Institute of Physics Publishing,</i> and Nick Lindsay from The ...

Sharing best practices for getting published in science

Panel at MIT brings together editors, students, and faculty to discuss diverse aspects of publishing research.

December 17, 2015

Justin Pedley '16 became the 27th player in MIT Men's Basketball history to score 1,000 points in his career, reaching the mark in the Engineers' game against Rhode Island College on Dec. 10.

Sports Shorts for Dec.14, 2015: A weekly wrap-up of MIT varsity athletics

Men’s and Women’s Basketball cap off undefeated weeks; Men’s Swimming and Diving sweeps NEWMAC weekly awards

December 14, 2015

At the 2015 Paris climate talks, MIT faculty, students, staff, and alumni have been observing negotiations and participating in side events. A few of those participating: (l-r) MIT researcher and Climate Interactive director Travis Franck; PhD student Michael Davidson; MIT Center for Collective Intelligence/Climate CoLab Director Thomas Malone; MIT Climate CoLab project manager Laur Fisher; alumna...

Sharing climate research and strategies in Paris

MIT events throughout climate talks underscore Institute’s global perspectives and partnerships.

December 11, 2015

3Q: Scott Aaronson on Google’s new quantum-computing paper

Google experiments suggest that the D-Wave computer exploits quantum phenomena.

December 11, 2015

(Left to right) Ade Samuel, Ellen Rice Staten, Rasheed Auguste, Tiera Guinn, Alberto Hernandez, and Isaiah Borne.

Black student leaders present recommendations for a more inclusive MIT

Students are working closely with senior administration; President Reif praises collaboration.

December 9, 2015

This self-folding microbot was among the many innovations that emerged from CSAIL in 2015.

Data, drones, and 3-D-printed hearts

Looking back on the year that was: Highlights from the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab in 2015.

December 8, 2015

Prize-winner Sarah Schwartz SM '15 is now a journalist at Science News.

Sarah Schwartz SM '15 wins first Obermayer Prize for science writing

MIT Graduate Program in Science Writing and Program in Science, Technology, and Society honor Schwartz for her essay on the history of synthetic penicillin.

December 4, 2015

“Symbolically, the IMF has raised the status of the renminbi by placing it in the same category as the dollar, euro, yen, and pound,” David Singer says.

3 Questions: David Singer on China and the renminbi

MIT political scientist looks beyond the headlines about China’s new currency status.

December 4, 2015

“Searching for the Oldest Stars: Ancient Relics from the Early Universe” (Princeton University Press) by Anna Frebel (pictured)

3 Questions: Anna Frebel on searching for the oldest stars

New book details astronomers’ hunt for clues to the early universe.

December 3, 2015

MIT Department of Political Science celebrates 50 years of rigor, relevance, and impact

November 30, 2015

Report: How interactive documentaries represent a new form of innovation in digital journalism

MIT report represents the first thorough mapping of the ongoing convergence between interactive and participatory practices within digital journalism.

November 19, 2015

During excavation for MIT.nano, the Department of Facilities unearthed an unexpected relic between buildings 12 and 26: a time capsule buried on June 5, 1957, to commemorate the opening of the Karl Taylor Compton Laboratories.

Relic from last century

Time capsule buried in 1957 unearthed during excavation for MIT.nano.

November 17, 2015

Maria Zuber, MIT vice president for research and the E.A. Griswold Professor of Geophysics

3 Questions: Maria Zuber on MIT’s climate action plan

MIT’s vice president for research looks ahead to implementation.