Anne Trafton | MIT News State-of-the-art prosthetic limbs can help people with amputations achieve a natural walking gait, but they don’t give the user full neural control over the limb. Instead, they rely on robotic…
Adrian Hopgood, University of Portsmouth With the current buzz around artificial intelligence (AI), it would be easy to assume that it is a recent innovation. In fact, AI has been around in one…
Researchers at the Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium in Motobu, Japan, have developed an artificial womb capable of incubating embryos of thin-tailed lantern sharks (Etmopterus molleri) that were born prematurely, allowing them to develop to…
Anne Trafton | MIT News Artificial intelligence models often play a role in medical diagnoses, especially when it comes to analyzing images such as X-rays. However, studies have found that these models don’t always perform…
Researchers at the University of Tokyo have developed a groundbreaking method to bind engineered skin tissue to the complex forms of humanoid robots. This innovation, led by Professor Shoji Takeuchi, offers significant advancements…
Terry Goldsworthy, Bond University and Gaelle Brotto Artificial intelligence (AI), now an integral part of our everyday lives, is becoming increasingly accessible and ubiquitous. Consequently, there’s a growing trend of AI advancements being…
Stacy Keltner, Kennesaw State University Fifty years ago, scientists discovered a nearly complete fossilized skull and hundreds of pieces of bone of a 3.2-million-year-old female specimen of the genus Australopithecus afarensis, often described…
Maria Iacobo | School of Architecture and Planning A new MIT course this spring asked students to design what humans might need to comfortably work in and inhabit space. The time for these creations is…
The new image captured by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope reveals a rare alignment of stellar jets in the Serpens Nebula, offering new perspectives on star formation. These protostellar jets, observed in the…
Mark Lorch, University of Hull In George R.R. Martin’s fantastical land of Westeros in Game of Thrones and House of the Dragon, the spectacle of dragons breathing fire captivates his audience through a…