Neuroscientists have identified a surprising way that babies and toddlers interpret their social world: Interactions that involve exchanging saliva, like kissing or sharing food, signal that two people have a strong relationship and a mutual obligation to help each other.

“Design most definitely involves aspects of both humanities and STEM,” says senior Ibuki Iwasaki. The art and design and computation and cognition major seeks to develop technology that prioritizes how human users think.

After working to bring climate reporting to local newsrooms, the inaugural MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative Journalism Fellows reflect on their experiences telling local climate stories.

As part of Brave Behind Bars — a prison education program that focuses on computing skills for women — MIT computer scientists and mathematicians are offering introductory computing and career-readiness courses for incarcerated women in New England.

On Science Friday, Scott Hughes described his work shifting the wavelengths of gravitational waves into the range of human hearing, allowing listeners to experience “ripples in space-time made by the tremendous mass of colliding black holes.”

Researchers have created a teaching technique to help workers collaborate with artificial intelligence systems. The method guides a person to understand which kinds of predictions an AI assistant is most likely to get right — and which ones shouldn’t be trusted.