An airborne laser survey on the Karst Plateau of the Adriatic hinterland has led to the discovery of previously unknown dry-stone megastructures.
The results of the study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS),…
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Optimizing food subsidies: Applying digital platforms to maximize nutrition | MIT News
Oct. 16 is World Food Day, a global campaign to celebrate the founding of the Food and Agriculture Organization 80 years ago, and to work toward a healthy, sustainable, food-secure future. More than 670 million people in…
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How a Yurok family played a key role in the world’s largest dam removal project
In The Water Remembers, Amy Bowers Cordalis shares her family’s account of the Indigenous-led fight to restore the Klamath River in the Pacific Northwest.
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Checking the quality of materials just got easier with a new AI tool | MIT News
Manufacturing better batteries, faster electronics, and more effective pharmaceuticals depends on the discovery of new materials and the verification of their quality. Artificial intelligence is helping with the former,…
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Helping scientists run complex data analyses without writing code | MIT News
As costs for diagnostic and sequencing technologies have plummeted in recent years, researchers have collected an unprecedented amount of data around disease and biology. Unfortunately, scientists hoping to go from data…
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New wetsuit designs offer a layer of protection against shark bites
By weaving Kevlar or polyethylene nanofibers into standard neoprene in wetsuits, researchers found ways to limit injury during rare encounters with sharks.
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Topological Tube Traps Vibrations
Author(s): Ryan Wilkinson
A newly devised cylindrical metamaterial could protect sensitive engineering equipment by isolating vibrations.
[Physics 18, s129] Published Tue Oct 14, 2025
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Scientists build artificial neurons that work like real ones
Engineers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have developed an artificial neuron whose electrical activity closely matches that of natural brain cells. The innovation builds on the team’s earlier research using protein nanowires made from…
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Kiwifruits, Rye Bread and High Mineral-Content Water Could Help Alleviate Chronic Constipation
That’s according to the first ever evidence-based dietary guidelines for adults with chronic constipation. Published in the Journal of Human Nutrition & Dietetics and the journal Neurogastroenterology & Motility, the new guidelines also show…
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Mysterious human-faced idol discovered on Saint David’s Hill
Recent excavations on Saint David’s Hill in the ancient fortress-city of Argištiḫinili have led to the discovery of a stone slab carved with a human-faced idol.
First founded in the 8th century BC during the expansion of the Urartians in the…
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