McGovern Institute awards 2018 Scolnick Prize to David Anderson
Neuroscientist honored for his work on the biology of neural stem cells and neural circuits that control emotional behaviors.
Measuring the economy with location data
Startup’s platform crunches anonymized smartphone GPS data to understand how people shop, work, and live.
Study finds early signatures of the social brain
Children as young as 3 have brain network devoted to interpreting thoughts of other people.
Political Methodology Lab to dig deep into new kinds of data
Founder Teppei Yamamoto designs new tools to comprehend political behavior transformed by digital technology.
Distinctive brain pattern helps habits form
Study identifies neurons that fire at the beginning and end of a behavior as it becomes a habit.
Decoding human cognition
MIT senior and Marshall Scholar Liang Zhou wants to elucidate the neural basis for our thoughts and intuitions.
Inventing the “Google” for predictive analytics
Platform analyzes big data to answer plain-language business queries in minutes instead of months.
Stress can lead to risky decisions
Neuroscientists find chronic stress skews decisions toward higher-risk options.
Course helps girls in Botswana avoid HIV and “sugar daddies”
Youth-to-youth program teaches girls about the increased odds of contracting HIV from older men.
When negotiating, pride goeth before destruction
Study finds good feelings from one negotiation can damage subsequent performance.
Babies can learn that hard work pays off
Study finds infants try harder after seeing adults struggle to achieve a goal.
Analyzing the language of color
Cognitive scientists find that people can more easily communicate warmer colors than cool ones.
How retractions hurt scientists’ credibility
Study finds faulty research creates a significant drop in use of prior published work.
Artificial intelligence suggests recipes based on food photos
Given a still image of a dish filled with food, CSAIL team's deep-learning algorithm recommends ingredients and recipes.
Wearable device reveals consumer emotions
Startup’s stress sensor tracks users’ unconscious responses to products and experiences.