3D printing approach strings together dynamic objects for you

“Xstrings” method enables users to produce cable-driven objects, automatically assemble bionic robots, sculptures, and dynamic fashion designs.

Alex Shipps | MIT CSAIL • mit
yesterday ~7 min

62-million-year-old skeleton sheds light on mysterious mammal

A new study of an ancient skeleton has answered many questions about an enigmatic critter called Mixodectes pungens.

Mike Cummings-Yale • futurity
yesterday ~6 min


Seeing trauma triggers changes in the brain

"Our research suggests that indirect trauma and direct trauma create different biological responses..."

Marya Barlow-Virginia Tech • futurity
yesterday ~5 min

Why I’m training Colombian Amazonians to become archaeology tourist guides

Local community archaeology tourism benefits the heritage, the people and the rainforest.

José Iriarte, Professor of Archaeology, University of Exeter • conversation
yesterday ~8 min

New tech could speed drug development and use fewer mice

New work should not only speed up the research and development pipeline for new drugs, but also hugely cut the number of lab animals needed.

U. Zurich • futurity
yesterday ~6 min

Sharks are under serious threat, but these bans may help

New research highlights the importance of monitoring shark populations and combining different strategies for managing their numbers.

Harrison Tasoff-UC Santa Barbara • futurity
yesterday ~7 min

The 30,000 year old vulture that reveals a completely new type of fossilisation

Volcanic rocks might contain much more exciting fossils than previously believed.

Maria McNamara, Professor, Palaeobiology, University College Cork • conversation
yesterday ~6 min

The UK has closed its flagship sustainable farming scheme, choosing short-term cuts over long-term security

We cannot afford to continually undervalue the future.

Emma Burnett, Honorary Research Associate, TABLE, University of Oxford • conversation
yesterday ~7 min


To the brain, Esperanto and Klingon appear the same as English or Mandarin

A new study finds natural and invented languages elicit similar responses in the brain’s language-processing network.

Anne Trafton | MIT News • mit
yesterday ~8 min

People say they prefer stories written by humans over AI-generated works, yet new study suggests that’s not quite true

Participants in a study were willing to spend just as much time and money on an AI-generated story as one they were told was written by a human.

Reed Johnson, Senior Lecturer in Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, Bowdoin College • conversation
yesterday ~5 min

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