SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT

As artificial intelligence becomes more and more powerful, its ability to handle human-like tasks is undeniable. Artificial neural networks can learn to recognize images, use language, or write computer code. Like the brain’s circuits, they reorganize themselves as they...

“This tomato is blowing my mind,” says Nermine Hassanin. The MIT graduate student in architecture is marveling at the fruit in her salad. She and several MIT School of Architecture and Planning classmates had spent their morning working at Hannan...

Theories that aquatic foraging drove human evolution have a fraught past. But the pair argue it granted stamina that other primates lack. Source link

Regardless of their views on politics or climate change, most Americans oppose the development of data centers in their communities.These large buildings filled with computers that store and process digital information, increasingly to support various...

NASA’s SpaceX 35th commercial resupply mission lifted off at 6:33 a.m. EDT Tuesday aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, carrying more than 6,300 pounds of supplies and...

A voice matters not just to the person who is speaking, but to the people listening, too. A study on moms and their daughters demonstrates the power of a voice by showing that moms’ voices reduced a measure of...

The amount of time children in England spend on screens at school could be harming their "physical and developmental health", a group of more than 150 clinicians has warned.GPs, paediatricians and other specialists said in an open letter to...

MIT engineers have developed a new way to program natural killer (NK) immune cells to target cancerous T cells or T cells that have become autoreactive, leading to diseases such as lymphoma and autoimmune hepatitis. Using their new technique, the...

She was ventilated for 11 days in hospital and her four children flew out to Spain as it was feared the worst might happen."I remember nothing until day four when I was brought round but a few hours later,...

“Understanding why life is so diverse is fascinating to me,” Des Marais says. “Understanding how different organisms, from bacteria to dinosaurs, have figured out how to interact with their challenging environment and optimize their fitness is inherently interesting. Why...