Bird brain discovery could lead to earlier Alzheimer’s diagnoses

Vocal changes in birds may predict age-related disorders like Alzheimer's disease in people, according to a new study.

Kyle Mittan-U. Arizona • futurity
March 25, 2025 ~5 min

A new way to make graphs more accessible to blind and low-vision readers

The Tactile Vega-Lite system, developed at MIT CSAIL, streamlines the tactile chart design process; could help educators efficiently create these graphics and aid designers in making precise changes.

Alex Shipps | MIT CSAIL • mit
March 25, 2025 ~6 min


Gas hunt may reveal signs of alien life on distant planets

Researchers have identified a promising new way to detect alien life on faraway planets.

Jules Bernstein - UC Riverside • futurity
March 25, 2025 ~6 min

How snakes use patterns of invisible colors

New research categorizes how snakes use patterns of UV color and tested for factors that promote the evolution of UV color in snakes.

Morgan Sherburne-Michigan • futurity
March 25, 2025 ~8 min

Deep-sea mining threatens sea life in a way no one is thinking about − by dumping debris into the thriving midwater zone

A planned mining method to gather critical minerals from the seafloor would create sediment plumes higher up in the water column where many creatures live.

Alexus Cazares-Nuesser, Ph.D. Candidate in Biological Oceanography, University of Hawaii • conversation
March 25, 2025 ~10 min

Helper bots in online communities diminish human interaction

Bots that reply to online posts can help people connect with each other, but at the same time they also interfere with people communicating with each other.

John Lalor, Assistant Professor of IT, Analytics, and Operations, University of Notre Dame • conversation
March 21, 2025 ~5 min

What are AI hallucinations? Why AIs sometimes make things up

When AI systems try to bridge gaps in their training data, the results can be wildly off the mark: fabrications and non sequiturs researchers call hallucinations.

Katelyn Mei, Ph.D. Student in Information Science, University of Washington • conversation
March 21, 2025 ~7 min

Device enables direct communication among multiple quantum processors

MIT researchers developed a photon-shuttling “interconnect” that can facilitate remote entanglement, a key step toward a practical quantum computer.

Adam Zewe | MIT News • mit
March 21, 2025 ~7 min


AI tool generates high-quality images faster than state-of-the-art approaches

Researchers fuse the best of two popular methods to create an image generator that uses less energy and can run locally on a laptop or smartphone.

Adam Zewe | MIT News • mit
March 21, 2025 ~8 min

Bacteria technique can boost plant growth

"The technique we demonstrate here essentially stabilizes these bacteria, making it possible to develop customized probiotics for plants."

Matt Shipman-NC State • futurity
March 20, 2025 ~7 min

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