How to talk to your kids about Russia’s Ukraine invasion

The news and pictures of Russia's invasion of Ukraine may be frightening for your kids. An expert offers tips on the best way to reassure them.

Stanford • futurity
March 9, 2022 ~6 min

Pig grunts show their emotions

Grunts reveal if a pig is happy, excited, scared, stressed, or somewhere in between, a new study of 7,000 recordings shows.

Michael Skov Jensen-Copenhagen • futurity
March 8, 2022 ~6 min


Pig grunts show their emotions

Grunts reveal if a pig is happy, excited, scared, stressed, or somewhere in between, a new study of 7,000 recordings shows.

Michael Skov Jensen-Copenhagen • futurity
March 8, 2022 ~6 min

Objection: No one can understand what you’re saying

An MIT study identifies ways that lawyers could make their written documents easier for the average person to read.

Anne Trafton | MIT News Office • mit
March 7, 2022 ~9 min

Cancer patients may need clearer sense of their prognosis

Advanced cancer patients may have misconceptions about how long they will live. "We need better ways to help people understand terrifying news."

Leslie Orr-Rochester • futurity
March 3, 2022 ~4 min

What is 3G and why is it being shut down? An electrical engineer explains

As the wireless telecommunications companies ramp up their 5G rollouts, they are beginning to pull the plug on their 3G networks. 2022 is the end of the line for the venerable cellphone service.

Mai Vu, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Tufts University • conversation
Feb. 22, 2022 ~8 min

Communication is key to guide patients to best end-of-life plan

There are ways palliative care providers can navigate conversations to help end-of-life patients optimize their quality of life and mitigate suffering.

Rachel Cramer-Iowa State • futurity
Feb. 21, 2022 ~6 min

Trust comes when you admit what you don’t know – lessons from child development research

People often try to seem confident and certain in their message so it will be trusted and acted upon. But when information is in flux, research suggests. you should be open about what you don’t know.

Mark Sabbagh, Professor of Psychology, Queen's University, Ontario • conversation
Feb. 15, 2022 ~10 min


Male sparrows shuffle their playlists to woo mates

New findings suggest the tweets of a little song sparrow and its "bird brain" are a lot more complex and akin to human language than anyone realized.

Duke University • futurity
Jan. 31, 2022 ~7 min

How 5G puts airplanes at risk – an electrical engineer explains

Airplanes use radio waves to determine how far off the ground they are. New 5G cellphone services come close to the same frequencies the airplanes use. Here’s how that can be a problem.

Prasenjit Mitra, Professor of Information Sciences and Technology, Penn State • conversation
Jan. 25, 2022 ~6 min

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