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A 30-year-old fossil was hiding bones from a mysterious ancient sea monster
ScienceDaily·11d ago
A 30-year-old fossil was hiding bones from a mysterious ancient sea monster A fossil from Japan has yielded hidden mosasaur bones—and tantalizing clues that they may belong to an entirely new...
AI could help fossil fuel companies create more emissions
Gristby Molly Taft, WIRED·11d ago
This story was originally published by Wired and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The emissions from powering data centers rightly get a lot of attention.
Army picks M1 to lead $10B helicopter-school transformation
Defense Oneby Thomas Novelly·11d ago
Army picks M1 to lead $10B helicopter-school transformation The aviation-services firm beat out Bell and Lockheed Martin.
Professor Emeritus Chiang Chung Mei, pioneering scholar of ocean wave dynamics and fluid mechanics, dies at 91
History of MITby Stephanie Martinovich | Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering·11d ago
Chiang Chung "C.C." Mei, professor emeritus in the MIT Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE), a renowned hydrodynamicist whose work shaped the field’s understanding of ocean waves...
Digital Signal Processing Pioneer Bede Liu Dies At 91
IEEE Spectrumby The Liu Family·12d ago
Bede Liu, a digital signal processing pioneer, died on 7 May. He was 91. Liu was widely regarded as one of the founders of modern digital signal processing, a field that applies mathematical...
How a brutal drought may have helped unleash yellow fever in Brazil
Science Newsby Erin Garcia de Jesús·12d ago
Rain may bring disease-carrying mosquitoes. But the lack of it could have been a factor that led to the first urban yellow fever outbreak in Brazil in decades.
Drug that targets an inflammatory enzyme could help prevent lung cancer
MIT Newsby Anne Trafton | MIT News·12d ago
Every year, lung cancer kills more than 100,000 people in the United States. Smoking is the leading risk factor for lung cancer, but other environmental exposures can also contribute to the...
The World's Strangest Christmas Traditions
Atlas Obscuraby Louise Story·12d ago
Every European Christmas market sells the same mulled wine out of the same wooden hut. This is not a criticism — it is a very good hut, and the wine is warm.
Efficient and Accurate Prediction of Cosite Isolation on Large Platforms - Wiley Science and Engineering Content Hub
IEEE Spectrumby WIPL-D·12d ago
Download this complimentary White Paper today! This White Paper shows engineers and researchers how to predict, by simulation, the coupling between antennas mounted on electrically large platforms...
Choose a Place Worth the Trip Even If the Sky Does Nothing
Atlas Obscuraby Louise Story·12d ago
Here is the failure mode nobody warns you about. You book a week in a country you chose because it appeared on a list of the best places to see the northern lights. You arrive.
Technological Determinism and Human Freedom
Palladium Magazineby Evan Zimmerman·12d ago
We fear that artificial intelligence will escape our control, pursue purposes of its own, displace human judgment, and ultimately reduce its creators to servants of the systems they built.
Not Where It's Warm. Where January Is the Only Way In.
Atlas Obscuraby Louise Story·12d ago
Every winter sun list is the same list. Somewhere with a beach, ranked by average January temperature, with a paragraph about resorts.
Listen: ‘You’ve Got to Keep Going Till It Bleeds’
Narrativelyby Chris Hartnick·12d ago
We have heard from so many people about how much this Personals essay from Dr. Chris Hartnick means to them.
Constellating Wonder: Celebrating 20 Years of The Marginalian (October 23, 2026)
The Marginalianby Maria Popova·12d ago
Constellating Wonder: Celebrating 20 Years of The Marginalian (October 23, 2026) By Maria Popova At the dawn of my twenties, lonely, destitute, and disoriented by the demands of making a new life...
A light-based scan could detect deadly bowel disease in preterm babies
Science Newsby Brendan Pierson·12d ago
Necrotizing enterocolitis, a life-threatening inflammation of the intestine that mostly affects premature babies, can strike with almost no warning.
AI Needs Public Feedback At Scale Before It’s Too Late | NOEMA
Noema Magazineby Nathan Gardels·12d ago
Nathan Gardels is the editor-in-chief of Noema Magazine. He is also the co-founder of and a senior adviser to the Berggruen Institute.
Cells pulse together as they grow — and malignant cells pulse the longest
MIT Newsby Jennifer Chu | MIT News·12d ago
Epithelial cells are the tiny shields that line and protect our body. In a developing embryo, epithelial cells grow, divide, and move into positions to form the outer layers of our skin and the...
In Australia, a Home Battery Boom Has Helped Cut Wholesale Power Prices in Half
Yale E360by Nicola Jones·12d ago
A little more than one year ago, Australia rolled out a program to heavily subsidize home batteries, part of a larger effort to make use of the huge volumes of solar energy that were going to...
Discover the Ancient Roman Shorthand Writing System with 4,000 Symbols Commissioned by Cicero
Open Cultureby Colin Marshall·12d ago
You can still type a symbol originally invented for Cicero nearly 21 centuries ago — at least if you configure your keyboard properly.
How to Search JSTOR with Keywords - JSTOR Daily
JSTOR Dailyby The Editors·12d ago
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