The Fannie and John Hertz Foundation announced that it has awarded fellowships to 10 PhD students with ties to MIT. The prestigious award provides each recipient with five years of doctoral-level research funding (up to…
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Mouths Wide Shut: How Cellular Cleaning Out Is Kept in Check – Life Sciences | Weizmann Wonder Wander
Autophagy, which literally means “self-eating,” is a cellular cleaning-out process that maintains our bodies in good order, but excessive autophagy can be too much of a good thing. Now Weizmann Institute of Science researchers have revealed a…
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Study suggests Seahenge was built to control climate change
A recent study published in GeoJournal proposes that Seahenge was built to conduct rituals aimed at prolonging the summer during the extreme climatic changes of the 3rd millennium BC.
Seahenge, also known as Holme I, is a prehistoric timber…
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RI Research Brings Together Humans, Robots and Generative AI To Create Art
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute (RI) have developed a robotic system that interactively co-paints with people.Collaborative FRIDA (CoFRIDA) can work with users of any artistic ability, inviting collaboration to…
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myCobot 280 – ROBOTS: Your Guide to the World of Robotics
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myCobot was developed by Elephant Robotics, a robotics company founded in 2016 in Shenzhen, China. The company focuses on “robot research and development, platform software development, and intelligent manufacturing services.”
Elephant was…
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Study uncovers new evidence supporting Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis
The Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis (YDIH) proposes that a cometary or meteoric body exploded over the North American area sometime around 12,900-years-ago.
Proponents of this theory suggest that the event triggered the Younger Dryas (YD) cooling…
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Cut marks on an Ancient Egyptian skull may indicate early attempts at cancer treatment
According to a study published in the journal Frontiers in Medicine, cut marks found on a 4,000-year-old skull could be indications that the Ancient Egyptians tried to treat cancer.
Some of the earliest documented evidence of medical practice and…
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BU archaeologists uncover Iron Age victim of human sacrifice
Archaeologists from Bournemouth University have uncovered an Iron Age victim of human sacrifice in Dorset, England.
The sacrificial victim was found lying at the bottom of a pit and placed on carefully arranged animal bones. A study of the…
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The origin of the sun’s magnetic field could lie close to its surface | MIT News
The sun’s surface is a brilliant display of sunspots and flares driven by the solar magnetic field, which is internally generated through a process called dynamo action. Astrophysicists have assumed that the sun’s…
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Eleven from MIT awarded 2024 Fulbright fellowships | MIT News
Eleven MIT undergraduates, graduate students, and alumni have won Fulbright grants to embark on projects overseas in the 2024-25 grant cycle. Two other students were offered awards but declined them to pursue other…
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