A computer vision study compares changes in pedestrian behavior since 1980, providing information for urban designers about creating public spaces.

Researchers developed a tool to recreate cells’ family trees. Comparing cells’ lineages and locations within a tumor provided insights into factors shaping tumor growth.

Study participants in an in-person tax-paying experiment in China were more likely to pay their taxes if government officials were monitoring and punishing corruption.

Pediatric ophthalmologist Carmel Mercado ’09 is also a visual artist whose illustrations and animal characters can be found in places as varied as a children’s hospital and a microbrewery.

Ten years after scientists detected gravitational waves for the first time using the LIGO detectors, Rachel Feltman of Scientific American’s “Science Quickly” podcast visits the MIT LIGO Lab to speak with Associate Professor Matthew Evans about the future of gravitational wave research and why Cosmic Explorer, the next-generation gravitational wave observatory, will help unearth secrets of the early universe. “We get to look back towards the beginning of the universe, in some sense, with gravitational waves as we look at these sources that are farther and farther away,” says Evans. “It’s a really exciting way to explore the universe as a whole by looking at this stellar graveyard.”