What are the ethics of AI reading animal X-rays?

The use of AI in veterinary radiology poses ethical questions, a review argues, because euthanasia is an option for animal patients.

Tracey Peake-NC State • futurity
Dec. 16, 2022 ~6 min

New device can control light at unprecedented speeds

Researchers have developed a programmable optical device for high-speed beam steering.

Adam Zewe | MIT News Office • mit
Nov. 28, 2022 ~9 min


Engineers bring MRI contrast agents into better view

Engineers are starting to understand exactly what goes on when doctors pump contrast agents into your body for an MRI scan.

Mike Williams-Rice • futurity
Nov. 21, 2022 ~6 min

Scientists Release Image of Gas Cloud from Star’s Explosion

VOA Learning English • voa
Nov. 3, 2022 ~3 min

MIT engineers build a battery-free, wireless underwater camera

The device could help scientists explore unknown regions of the ocean, track pollution, or monitor the effects of climate change.

Adam Zewe | MIT News Office • mit
Sept. 26, 2022 ~7 min

5 ways to nurture a good self-image in your kids

Most children and teens are self-conscious about the way they look. An expert offers some tips on how to nurture positive self-image in your kids.

Beata Mostafavi-Michigan • futurity
Sept. 19, 2022 ~9 min

Meditation holds the potential to help treat children suffering from traumas, difficult diagnoses or other stressors – a behavioral neuroscientist explains

A new study provides the first glimpse into what happens in children’s brains as they meditate.

Hilary A. Marusak, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences, Wayne State University • conversation
Sept. 8, 2022 ~5 min

Sharing news you didn’t read can feel like expertise

Social media sharers believe that they are knowledgeable about the content they share, even if they have not read it or have only glanced at a headline.

UT Austin • futurity
Aug. 31, 2022 ~6 min


Scanning ‘living fossil’ fish explains its odd swimming

Researchers pulled a coelacanth caught in 1960 from its jar of alcohol in a museum and gave it an MRI. Doing so reveals some of the fish's mysterious ways.

Maria Hornbek-Copenhagen • futurity
Aug. 24, 2022 ~7 min

Fly brains encode lack of bitterness in a ‘sweet’ way

A new imaging technique called trans-Tango(activity) reveals how specific neurons in brain circuits of fruit flies respond to stimuli such as sweet and bitter tastes.

Corrie Pikul-Brown • futurity
Aug. 23, 2022 ~7 min

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