3 Questions: Vaccines and the power of positive reinforcement
Experts say people are more willing to get the Covid-19 vaccine when told how popular it is.
Experts say people are more willing to get the Covid-19 vaccine when told how popular it is.
MIT students Malik and Miles George gain attention on the video-sharing social network for their captivating, funny science videos.
Social media users share charts and graphs — often with the same underlying data — to advocate opposing approaches to the pandemic.
Improved public health messaging to Black, Latinx, and other communities disproportionately impacted by the pandemic can increase Covid-19 knowledge and information-seeking.
Years of volumes and hundreds of essays, published by the MIT Press since 2003, are now freely available.
To understand ourselves and our place in the universe, “we should have humility but also self-respect,” the physicist writes in a new book.
Both free resources are part of an update of the program's website.
Jasmine Florentine ’11, SM ’15 combines engineering and art to illustrate educational posters related to Covid-19.
Author Susan Hockfield, MIT president emerita and professor of neuroscience, receives 2020 Science Communication Award.
Large datasets are difficult to depict as scatterplots — but that may change with a new CSAIL project for creating interactive visualizations.
Website hosts an expanded suite of digital tools and resources to help people make sense of climate change.
MIT professor’s new book, “Money for Nothing,” digs into the origins and relevance of Britain’s South Sea Bubble.
Journalists will delve into issues including racial bias and race-based health disparities, institutional responses to Covid-19, and the impacts of climate change.
With a newly minted PhD, Fernanda de Araújo Ferreira now explores the scientific enterprise through journalism.
The new open access, rapid-review overlay journal aims to combat misinformation in Covid-19 research.