Science communication competition brings research into the real world

“We need more scientists who can explain their work clearly, explain science to the public, and help us build a science-literate world.”

Amanda Cornwall | MIT Career Advising and Professional Development • mit
April 30, 2024 ~8 min

Dark matter does exist, simulations indicate

New research digs into a fundamental astrophysics debate: does dark matter need to exist to explain how the universe works the way it does?

Lucas Van Wyk Joel-UC Irvine • futurity
April 30, 2024 ~6 min


Team cracks mystery of asteroid’s origin

For the first time, scientists have traced an asteroid to its exact place of origin—a particular crater on the moon.

Daniel Stolte-Arizona • futurity
April 30, 2024 ~9 min

Electric vehicles are usually safer for their occupants – but not necessarily for everyone else

EV fires make headlines, but they don’t tell the full story of EV safety. The real threat isn’t combustion, it’s weight.

Jingwen Hu, Research Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan • conversation
April 30, 2024 ~6 min

Huge 3D Printer Aims to Cut Building Time, Labor Costs

VOA Learning English • voa
April 29, 2024 ~4 min

New circuit boards can be recycled again and again

Electronic waste is a big problem, but new circuits that can be recycled repeatedly could help change things.

Stefan Milne-U. Washington • futurity
April 29, 2024 ~8 min

‘Surprisingly strategic’ mice think like babies

"...our view is that animals, like humans, can make hypotheses and they can test them and may use higher cognitive processes to do it."

Jill Rosen-Johns Hopkins • futurity
April 29, 2024 ~6 min

An AI dataset carves new paths to tornado detection

TorNet, a public artificial intelligence dataset, could help models reveal when and why tornadoes form, improving forecasters' ability to issue warnings.

Kylie Foy | MIT Lincoln Laboratory • mit
April 29, 2024 ~11 min


Why do you remember certain things but not others?

"...when it comes to understanding memory, there's a lot to be discovered about how it actually works," Fernanda Morales-Calva says.

Amy McCaig-Rice University • futurity
April 29, 2024 ~6 min

Teens see social media algorithms as accurate reflections of themselves, study finds

Adolescents treat ‘for you’ algorithms as a social mirror and are willing to give up privacy to use it.

Nora McDonald, Assistant Professor of Information Technology, George Mason University • conversation
April 29, 2024 ~9 min

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