This Thanksgiving, thank your past self

Expressing gratitute to your past self may offer an increase in the self-awareness measures of clarity, authenticity, and connectedness.

Alisson Clark-Florida • futurity
Nov. 17, 2021 • ~5 min

NASA Seeks Public’s Help to Train AI for Mars Rovers
VOA Learning English • voa
Nov. 10, 2021 • ~5 min

Modeling the mechanisms of metastasis

Collaborative team wins prestigious NIH grant to investigate the physical forces that influence metastatic cancer.

Koch Institute • mit
Nov. 5, 2021 • ~6 min

The COVID-19 pandemic increased eating disorders among young people – but the signs aren't what parents might expect

Boys, LGBTQ youth and people with normal body mass index are often overlooked when it comes to recognizing eating disorders, a physician and psychotherapist explain.

Sara Groff Stephens, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Virginia • conversation
Nov. 2, 2021 • ~8 min

Lidar reveals nearly 500 ancient ceremonial sites in Mexico

Researchers have discovered nearly 500 ancient ceremonial sites in Mexico. They're similar to Aguada Fénix, the largest and oldest Maya monument ever found.

Mikayla Mace-Arizona • futurity
Nov. 1, 2021 • ~8 min

We mapped every large solar plant on the planet using satellites and machine learning

Our data provides a common benchmark unbiased by reporting from companies or governments.

Lucas Kruitwagen, Climate Change and Artificial Intelligence Researcher, University of Oxford • conversation
Oct. 29, 2021 • ~7 min

BepiColombo's first close-up pictures of Mercury's surface hint at answers to the planet's secrets

What did Mercury look like as BepiColombo swung by?

David Rothery, Professor of Planetary Geosciences, The Open University • conversation
Oct. 4, 2021 • ~9 min

BepiColombo's first close-up pictures from 200km above Mercury hint at answers to the planet's secrets

What did Mercury look like as BepiColombo swung by?

David Rothery, Professor of Planetary Geosciences, The Open University • conversation
Oct. 4, 2021 • ~9 min

50 years ago, the first CT scan let doctors see inside a living skull – thanks to an eccentric engineer at the Beatles' record company

On Oct. 1, 1971, Godfrey Hounsfield’s invention took its first pictures of a human brain, using X-rays and an ingenious algorithm to identify a woman’s tumor from outside of her skull.

Edmund S. Higgins, Affiliate Associate Professor of Psychiatry & Family Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina • conversation
Sept. 30, 2021 • ~10 min

Using AI and old reports to understand new medical images

Scientists employ an underused resource — radiology reports that accompany medical images — to improve the interpretive abilities of machine learning algorithms.

Rachel Gordon | MIT CSAIL • mit
Sept. 27, 2021 • ~4 min

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