A study of a rigorous trial shows mixed results, and suggests a need to keep examining how nutrition can combat a pervasive disease.

MIT researchers introduce a method that uses artificial intelligence to automate the explanation of complex neural networks.

Historian Tristan Brown’s new book tells the overlooked story of an ancient Chinese concept and its role in shaping the country’s law.

Members of the MIT community, including 28 alumni, were honored in the annual lists.

MIT researchers find preventative screenings for colon cancer can reduce cancer rates more than previous analyses suggested. Professor Joshua Angrist and his colleagues found that the “two gold standard tests for spotting cancers and polyps of the colon — colonoscopy and sigmoidoscopy — offer double the benefit determined in prior studies.”

David Zipper, a senior fellow at the MIT Mobility Initiative, discusses car bloat, the trend of U.S. cars getting heavier and larger, and the environmental and safety costs associated with larger vehicles. “For decades, people who buy enormous, very heavy cars have been creating societal costs that they aren’t paying for. That’s what’s called a market failure,” says Zipper. “If you want the market for automobiles to succeed, we need to make sure that when people are shopping for their next car, they are considering the societal costs of their purchase, which is going to be a lot greater if they’re going to be buying a very large model.”