NASA Says Spacecraft Made Closest-Ever Pass to Sun

VOA Learning English • voa
Jan. 12, 2025 ~6 min

What Meta’s move to community moderation could mean for misinformation

The company says the change aims to promote free expression and reduce censorship.

Denitsa Dineva, Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Marketing and Strategy, Cardiff University • conversation
Jan. 10, 2025 ~6 min


Super hot climate may have split lampreys into 2 groups

New research on lampreys could have implications for how aquatic species respond to our current changing climate.

Tracey Peake-NC State • futurity
Jan. 9, 2025 ~5 min

Teaching AI to communicate sounds like humans do

Inspired by the mechanics of the human vocal tract, a new AI model can produce and understand vocal imitations of everyday sounds. The method could help build new sonic interfaces for entertainment and education.

Alex Shipps | MIT CSAIL • mit
Jan. 9, 2025 ~8 min

Small Businesses Say US TikTok Ban Would Hurt Them

VOA Learning English • voa
Jan. 8, 2025 ~5 min

Images that transform through heat

The Thermochromorph printmaking technique developed by CSAIL researchers allows images to transition into each other through changes in temperature.

Adam Conner-Simons | MIT CSAIL • mit
Jan. 8, 2025 ~6 min

Logging off life but living on: How AI is redefining death, memory and immortality

Ethical and legal issues around death in the digital age are thorny enough dealing with social media accounts. AI puts the notion of a digital afterlife into overdrive.

Yuanyuan (Gina) Cui, Assistant Professor of Marketing, Coastal Carolina University • conversation
Jan. 8, 2025 ~9 min

Personal interests can influence how children’s brains respond to language

McGovern Institute neuroscientists use children’s interests to probe language in the brain.

Rubina Veerakone | McGovern Institute for Brain Research • mit
Jan. 7, 2025 ~6 min


DNA rewrites when Neanderthals bred with modern humans

Surviving Neanderthal genes in modern genomes tell a story of thousands of years of interactions between Neanderthals and modern humans.

Camden Flath-Futurity • futurity
Jan. 7, 2025 ~10 min

New evidence challenges ideas about Mars’ past

New evidence exists for hidden water reservoirs and rare magmas on ancient Mars, researchers report.

Alexandra Becker - Rice U. • futurity
Jan. 7, 2025 ~6 min

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