The study indicates that no place is well adapted to the current climate, Dartmouth research concludes that measures to protect individuals on hot days are…
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An artificial intelligence tool could help governments decide whether or not to bail out a bank in crisis by predicting if the intervention will save…
Is there a better way to get more treats than resorting to threats of tricks? Halloween is here. It’s the night every year when children…
Research challenges the conventional theory that the transition from foraging to farming drove the development of complex, hierarchical societies by creating agricultural surplus, finds the…
MIT economists studying individual income data in Ecuador found that international trade generates income gains that are about 7 percent greater for those at the…
U.S. civilian, military populations combine for more than $230 billion in annual costs. A new study finds that the national economic burden of PTSDPost-traumatic stress…
Clinic and hospital drug spending increased due to higher usage and new drugs; price increases remained below inflation. The COVID-19First identified in 2019 in Wuhan,…
Findings suggested new approach needed to aid the unemployed. More than half of unemployed American men in their 30s have a history of being arrested…
In collaboration with a team at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, MIT experts have begun designing and testing a technical framework through which Central…
Preventing Pandemics Costs Far Less Than Controlling Them – “Prevention Really Is the Best Medicine”
Tens of billions spent on habitat and surveillance would avoid trillions of annual costs. We can pay now or pay far more later. That’s the…
To Keep or Not To Keep Those New Year’s Resolutions? New research suggests that people may not always want help with sticking to their New…
Lockdowns during early pandemic saved lives, but not a go-to strategy moving forward. The U.S. pandemic lockdown in 2020 caused a $2.3 trillion economic downturn…
Reasserting U.S. Leadership in Microelectronics MITMIT is an acronym for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It is a prestigious private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts…
A quiet months-long legal fight between the U.S. National Institutes of Health and drugmaker Moderna over COVID-19First identified in 2019 in Wuhan, China, Coronavirus disease…
New research reveals the economic costs of behavioral responses to the pandemic in the U.S. Throughout its unsteady course, the COVID-19First identified in 2019 in…
Record numbers of Americans have quit their jobs in recent months, with more than 4.4 million submitting their resignation in September alone. Millions more may…
Surplus corn piled outside a farmer’s co-op storage facility in Paoli, Colorado. If you’ve pumped gas at a U.S. service station over the past decade,…
Human behavior drives the evolution of biological organisms in ways that can profoundly adversely impact human welfare. Understanding people’s incentives when they do so is…
The COVID-19First identified in 2019 in Wuhan, China, Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2).…
A new health and economic model clearly shows why it’s imperative that food manufacturers reduce the amount of added sugar in their products. Cutting 20%…