Archaeologists in England have uncovered a rare Roman knife handle, crafted 2,000 years ago in the shape of a gladiator. This discovery highlights that the legendary status of these iconic fighters extended even…
A deep learning-based artificial intelligence model developed at Washington State University can quickly and often more accurately detect signs of disease in images of animal and human tissue compared to human assessments. As…
Although no direct evidence of life has been discovered on Mars, a recent NASA study suggests that microbes might survive beneath frozen water on the planet’s surface. Using computer modeling, the researchers demonstrated…
A new theoretical model offers a way to estimate the likelihood of intelligent life emerging in our universe—and in any hypothetical universes beyond. This approach has similarities to the well-known Drake Equation, devised…
Jennifer Chu | MIT News There’s no doubt that exercise does a body good. Regular activity not only strengthens muscles but can bolster our bones, blood vessels, and immune system. Now, MIT engineers have found…
A team of biologists from The University of Texas at Arlington has identified a new species of tiny lizard in the Paria Peninsula of northeastern Venezuela. The discovery, set to be published in…
Fathiya Khamis, International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology There’s been an exciting new discovery in the fight against plastic pollution: mealworm larvae that are capable of consuming polystyrene. They join the ranks…
In a show of international collaboration to protect cultural heritage, Italy has returned 56 cultural relics to China after they were illegally transported to Europe and later confiscated. Nineteen of these artifacts were…
Nir Eisikovits, UMass Boston Anyone following the rhetoric around artificial intelligence in recent years has heard one version or another of the claim that AI is inevitable. Common themes are that AI is…
In a pristine environment at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, scientists have successfully installed a key component onto the Roman Space Telescope. The Roman Coronagraph Instrument, designed to block out starlight,…