![A new study finds generally higher prices with occasional sales mixed in will yield more revenue than consistently low prices, at least for fashionable goods. “The high-value customers will still buy the product,” Karen Zheng says. “They want to [avoid] this feeling of regret, which would occur if they wait now and then cannot get it in the future.”](/sites/default/files/styles/term_page__news_article/public/images/201605/MIT-Quantifying-Regret.jpg?itok=qLKeqfIg)
![“Children seem to interpret disjunction like conjunction,” observes MIT Linguistics Professor Danny Fox. However, Fox adds, although “it has been claimed children are very different from adults in the interpretation of logical words,” the study’s larger implication is almost the opposite — namely that “the child is [otherwise] identical to the adult, but there is a very small paramet...](/sites/default/files/styles/term_page__news_article/public/images/201605/MIT-Language-Acquisition.jpg?itok=tYsyxezn)
Why children confuse simple words
Study: Kids have “and/or” problem despite sophisticated reasoning.
Glowing tumors light a path to cancer treatment
Mechanism developed at MIT and Massachusetts General Hospital shows promising results for improved ovarian cancer detection and removal.
Speedy terahertz-based system could detect explosives
Spectroscopic system with chip-scale lasers cuts detection time from minutes to microseconds.
MIT joins Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition
Led by World Bank and IMF, coalition seeks to price emissions to tackle climate change.
Center for Environmental Health Sciences announces 2016 call for pilot project proposals
Proposals are invited for basic and translational environmental health sciences research.
New nanoparticle catalysts could reduce need for precious metals
Process from MIT provides improved reactivity with much less platinum.
The geography of carbon pricing
Study looks at why some states could be impacted more than others if a price is put on carbon.
Thriving on risk in real estate
Professor David Geltner is developing new real estate indices to quantify uncertainties in commercial property markets.
J-WAFS awards $1.3 million in second round of seed grant funding
Principal investigators will receive grants of up to $100,000 per year for up to two years for innovative research on food and water challenges.
New metal alloys overcome strength-ductility tradeoff
Promising new approach overturns widespead metallurgical assumption.
Center for Environmental Health Sciences selects 2016 poster winners
Annual poster session showcases recent work on biological effects of exposure to environmental agents.
New model from Masdar Institute-MIT collaboration to support a cooler, more sustainable Abu Dhabi
Tool will help urban planners reduce Abu Dhabi’s heat island and carbon footprint.
![“[W]hen you send location data as a secondary piece of information, it is extremely simple for people with very little technical knowledge to find out where you work or live,” Ilaria Liccardi says.](/sites/default/files/styles/term_page__news_article/public/images/201605/MIT-No-Privacy.jpg?itok=Tkm7jhKw)
We know where you live
From location data alone, even low-tech snoopers can identify Twitter users’ homes, workplaces.
Teamwork enables bacterial survival
Strains of E. coli resistant to one antibiotic can protect other bacteria growing nearby.