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The Bloggessby thebloggess13d ago
My eyes have decided to stop working in low-light so I bought this necklace thing that has little flashlights at the end so I could use it for reading and doing art and last night I thought that it...
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top 1%Stressed Parents Mean More Screen Time for Kids, Study Finds. That's Trouble for Back-to-School Season - CNET
CNETby Dashia Milden13d ago
As a parent, I know how easy it is to use screen time as a way to keep my kid busy — whether it’s TV, learning apps or FaceTime with family, it may buy me a few minutes.
Researchers use drones with suction cups to tag whales, allowing them to study the species from the sky
Good Good Goodby Kamrin Baker13d ago
Marine mammal researchers at the Hawai’i Institute of Marine Biology have achieved “new heights” with the invention of a new non-invasive way to tag humpback whales in the wild.
The mystery of the Chinese tea chest label
History of MITby Benjamin Daniel | School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences13d ago
When MIT historian Tristan Brown first examined a Chinese tea chest label displayed as a relic of the Boston Tea Party, he had no reason to doubt its story.
A decade of mathematical certainty: Reflections on the Automated Reasoning Group
Amazon Science Homepageby Byron Cook13d ago
In 2016 a small research team at Amazon announced our presence to the world with the launch of the Automated Reasoning Group (ARG).
MIT neuroscientists discover the brain can reason without words
Neuroscience News -- ScienceDaily13d ago
MIT neuroscientists discover the brain can reason without words - Date: - August 11, 2026 - Source: - Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Summary: - MIT neuroscientists have found striking...
Can Earth Be Engineered to Mass-Produce Clean Hydrogen?
IEEE Spectrumby Ariel Bleicher13d ago
Zap Rocks. Add Water. Get Clean Hydrogen Startup wields subterranean lightning strikes to conjure the gas In a tranquil Boston suburb, on the far edge of a horse farm, where pasture gives way to...
Flight paths and fridge magnets: how a fireball hunter tracked down New Zealand’s newest meteorite
Space | The Guardianby Natasha May14d ago
Days after a massive fireball flashed through New Zealand’s skies last month, Steve Wyn-Harris spotted a small, black stone on the bare ground.
The great silence: why haven’t we found any aliens yet?
Space | The Guardianby Adam Kirsch14d ago
During a visit to the Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1950, Enrico Fermi, one of the architects of the Manhattan Project, was having lunch with other physicists when the conversation turned to...
On the hunt for dark matter
MIT Newsby Sydney Campbell | Division of Graduate and Undergraduate Education14d ago
Physicists across the globe are on a quest for a particle that makes up nearly 85 percent of all matter in the universe, yet no one has ever directly detected it.
AWS Trainium Frontier competition: Co-design models and kernels on purpose-built AI chips
Amazon Science Homepageby Louise Ping; John Gray; Emily Webber; Josh Longenecker14d ago
Modern LLM architectures have co-evolved within a single hardware family. The shapes of our attention mechanisms, the structure of our multilayer perceptrons (MLPs), the choice of numerical...
Regenerative Astrocytes Repair Brain Damage - Neuroscience News
Neuroscience Newsby Neuroscience News14d ago
Summary: Researchers discovered a previously unknown mechanism through which the adult mammalian brain repairs itself following focal injuries or autoimmune damage.
High-orbit satellites could light the way for travel to the moon
MIT Newsby Haley Wahl | MIT Lincoln Laboratory14d ago
On Earth, the processes behind navigation are made nearly invisible by global positioning satellites (GPS).
Eye Tracking Reveals Where Human Reading and AI Processing Diverge - Neuroscience News
Neuroscience Newsby Neuroscience News14d ago
Summary: A new study evaluated whether large language models (LLMs) can accurately account for human reading dynamics.
Dog Brains Differentiate Human Anger, Fear, and Sadness - Neuroscience News
Neuroscience Newsby Neuroscience News14d ago
Summary: A new study demonstrated that dogs possess specialized neural networks for processing human facial expressions.
The simple way to make your marketing claims 42.9% more believable
Hubspotby Phill Agnew14d ago
A few weeks back, I stumbled across a Reddit post that talked about the first measurement ever taken of Mount Everest.
The first-ever Fat Marmot Week is almost here. See the contenders
Good Good Goodby Meghan Cook15d ago
Daniel Blumstein, a UCLA ecology and evolutionary biology professor, has been running the marmot research project at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory in Colorado for 25 years — and he has...
Frequent cannabis users wake up with their “stress hormone” already elevated
Neuroscience News -- ScienceDaily16d ago
Frequent cannabis users wake up with their “stress hormone” already elevated - Date: - August 9, 2026 - Source: - Oregon State University - Summary: - Frequent cannabis users may wake up with...
Scientists say just 7 days of meditation can rewire your brain
Neuroscience News -- ScienceDaily16d ago
Scientists say just 7 days of meditation can rewire your brain Just seven days of intensive meditation and mind-body practices produced measurable changes in participants’ brains, blood chemistry...
Stress can scramble your brain’s internal GPS, MRI study finds
Neuroscience News -- ScienceDaily16d ago
Stress can scramble your brain’s internal GPS, MRI study finds - Date: - August 8, 2026 - Source: - Ruhr-University Bochum - Summary: - Stress may literally scramble the brain’s internal GPS.