Study: Burning heavy fuel oil with scrubbers is the best available option for bulk maritime shipping

Researchers analyzed the full lifecycle of several fuel options and found this approach has a comparable environmental impact, overall, to burning low-sulfur fuels.

Adam Zewe | MIT News • mit
April 8, 2025 ~9 min

The human body, its movement, and music

Connected by MIT’s Human Insight Collaborative, Lecturer Mi-Eun Kim and Research Scientist Praneeth Namburi want to develop an understanding of musical expression and skill development.

Benjamin Daniel | School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences • mit
April 7, 2025 ~7 min


A new way to bring personal items to mixed reality

“InteRecon” enables users to capture items in a mobile app and reconstruct their interactive features in mixed reality. The tool could assist in education, medical environments, museums, and more.

Alex Shipps | MIT CSAIL • mit
April 7, 2025 ~8 min

Bonobos communicate a lot like humans

"This suggests that the capacity to combine call types in complex ways is not as unique to humans as we once thought."

U. Zurich • futurity
April 7, 2025 ~5 min

Stone cooking tool residue sheds light on ancient food

"They aren't sexy like an arrowhead but they still contain valuable information about what plants people processed in the past."

Lisa Potter - U. Utah • futurity
April 7, 2025 ~8 min

What is reinforcement learning? An AI researcher explains a key method of teaching machines – and how it relates to training your dog

Computing pioneer Alan Turing suggested training machines with rewards and punishments. Two computer scientists put the idea into practice in the 1980s and set the stage for the likes of ChatGPT.

Ambuj Tewari, Professor of Statistics, University of Michigan • conversation
April 7, 2025 ~7 min

Taiwan’s latest computer chip has serious implications for technology – and the island’s security

Taiwanese manufacturer TSMC will begin producing the chips from the second half of this year.

Domenico Vicinanza, Associate Professor of Intelligent Systems and Data Science, Anglia Ruskin University • conversation
April 4, 2025 ~6 min

New method assesses and improves the reliability of radiologists’ diagnostic reports

The framework helps clinicians choose phrases that more accurately reflect the likelihood that certain conditions are present in X-rays.

Adam Zewe | MIT News • mit
April 4, 2025 ~8 min


‘Super’ AI uses less power by mimicking the human brain

"Modern AI like ChatGPT is awesome, but it's too expensive. We're going to make sustainable AI."

Lesley Henton-Texas A&M • futurity
April 3, 2025 ~7 min

New approach could speed up electric car charging in the cold

Electric car charging becomes less efficient in colder weather, but a new strategy for manufacturing battery electrodes could speed things up.

U. Michigan • futurity
April 3, 2025 ~6 min

/

777