Alzheimer’s breakthrough: Scientists restore two hours of sleep without clearing brain plaques
Neuroscience News -- ScienceDaily·20 Jul 2026
Alzheimer’s breakthrough: Scientists restore two hours of sleep without clearing brain plaques - Date: - July 20, 2026 - Source: - University of Kentucky - Summary: - Researchers have uncovered a...
Scientists discover a protein that protects the brain from Alzheimer’s damage
Neuroscience News -- ScienceDaily·20 Jul 2026
Scientists discover a protein that protects the brain from Alzheimer’s damage A natural brain protein may help block the toxic tau damage that drives Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias.
Style Scouting: Vol. 300
In My Own Styleby Diane Henkler·19 Jul 2026
Thanks for stopping by for this week’s Style Scouting. My Sunday post where I share the random stuff that captured my attention or inspired me that I found online. Hello and happy Sunday.
Popular sugar substitutes linked to faster brain aging
Neuroscience News -- ScienceDaily·18 Jul 2026
Popular sugar substitutes linked to faster brain aging A large study linked higher consumption of several artificial sweeteners to faster declines in memory and thinking skills.
Mediterranean diet may activate tiny proteins that protect the heart and brain
Neuroscience News -- ScienceDaily·18 Jul 2026
Mediterranean diet may activate tiny proteins that protect the heart and brain The Mediterranean diet may help protect the heart and brain by activating tiny anti-aging proteins hidden inside our...
Following the questions where they lead
History of MITby Michaela Jarvis | MIT Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems·17 Jul 2026
Ever since she was a child playing on her family’s farmland in Wisconsin, Bailey Flanigan was guided by her own selective, yet wide-ranging, curiosity.
Scientists turned coffee grounds into biochar fuel in 90 seconds
Anthropocene Magazineby Anthropocene Team·16 Jul 2026
Millions of people around the world drink coffee to boost their energy. Researchers in South Korea have now given new meaning to the concept of coffee as fuel.
3 Questions: Neural transparency and the future of AI design
History of MITby Media Lab·15 Jul 2026
Millions of people are now designing their own personalized artificial intelligence companions, yet most have little idea how those creations will actually behave.
MIT Professor Susumu Tonegawa, renowned molecular biologist and Nobel laureate, dies at 86
History of MITby Anne Trafton | MIT News·15 Jul 2026
Susumu Tonegawa, the Picower Professor of Biology and Neuroscience at MIT and a Nobel laureate, died July 11 at the age of 86.
Electric fields help guide neural activity, even from moment to moment
MIT Newsby David Orenstein | The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory·15 Jul 2026
It’s a fact of life that the electrical activity of neurons will vary during repetitions of the same task, even when the ultimate outcome is the same.
This tiny bottle cap traveled 1,500 kilometers. It had 307 hitchhikers aboard.
Anthropocene Magazineby Warren Cornwall·15 Jul 2026
Sometimes a big story can be told with a very small object. Take the hazards of plastic pollution in the ocean, and a single bottle cap floating in the Pacific Ocean near Japan.
MIT engineers find a precise way to grow artificial blood vessels
MIT Newsby Jennifer Chu | MIT News·14 Jul 2026
Tissue engineers are finding ways to grow living organs and tissues from cells, with the aim of replacing diseased and damaged counterparts in the body.
How MIT students are helping to prevent cyberattacks
History of MITby Nicole Estvanik Taylor | Department of Urban Studies and Planning·13 Jul 2026
In May 2019, the government of Baltimore, Maryland, fell into chaos. Cybercriminals had locked the city out of many of its critical files and demanded payment to decrypt them.
Tiny infrared chip could improve detection of gases and heat
MIT Newsby Zach Winn | MIT News·13 Jul 2026
Infrared cameras can be used to spot useful information that our eyes can’t see, such as gases escaping from a pipeline, chemicals in the atmosphere, or heat leaking from a building.
Discovery could lead to brighter, more energy-efficient digital displays
MIT Newsby Adam Zewe | MIT News·10 Jul 2026
A new study led by MIT researchers could drive the development of more energy-efficient digital displays — such as flat-screen TVs, augmented and virtual reality headsets, smartphone screens...
Amazon and University of Michigan give robots a sense of touch
Amazon Science Homepageby Mani Nambi; Nima Fazeli·10 Jul 2026
From warehouse automation to surgical assistance, many real-world applications depend on robots performing delicate, contact-intensive tasks.
Occurrence Theory II: The Born Exegeses and the Mathematical Toll of Emergence
iHack, therefore iBlogby Dr. Ernie·9 Jul 2026
Sequel to Occurrence Theory: Where Physics is Born Introduction In our previous article, we introduced the foundational thesis of Occurrence Theory (OT): physical observables are not fundamental...
New flapping robot swims and flies like a diving bird
MIT Newsby Jennifer Chu | MIT News·9 Jul 2026
Loons, gulls, puffins, and petrels are some of the 100 species of birds that can both fly and swim.
Capturing token IDs during agentic interactions for better reinforcement learning
Amazon Science Homepageby Frederick Robinson·9 Jul 2026
Reinforcement learning (RL) is one of the techniques we use to make language models better at sustained, multistep tasks like writing code, navigating a website, or carrying out a research...
We Are Living In A Sedenion World (Lyrics)
iHack, therefore iBlogby Dr. Ernie·8 Jul 2026
Sequel to Occurrence Theory: Where Physics is Born [Apologies to Madonna for parodying “Material Girl”] (The iconic synth intro kicks in — but it’s driven by a deep, hyper-precise algorithmic...
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