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Young coral use metabolic tricks to resist bleaching
Science

Metabolic strategies of coral larvae to resist bleaching

PLOS

Coral larvae can retain algae at high temperatures due to reduced metabolism and increased nitrogen storage.

Still images from video snippets show how AI identifies in real-time what a clinician is holding.
Technology

First wearable, AI-powered camera detects medication errors

Ashwini Sakharkar

A deep-learning model identified the contents of vials and syringes.

This stretchy, wearable device lights up an LED using only the warmth of your skin.
Technology

Stretchy, wearable device harvests energy from body heat to light up an LED

Ashwini Sakharkar

This wearable device that lights up an LED using only the warmth of your skin.

Fig 2. Proportion of health spending that is development assistance, 2021.
Health

Slow growth in health sector spending: Implications for Sub-Saharan Africa

PLOS

Government underinvestment and reduced donor contributions hinder health spending growth in Sub-Saharan Africa.

blue eye
Technology

Cortical implants are unlikely to ‘exceed normal human vision’

Ashwini Sakharkar

Researchers created a computational model that simulates the experience of a wide range of human cortical studies.

bat
Science

Study sheds light on the evolutionary origins of flight in Bats

Ashwini Sakharkar

Researchers explore the evolutionary transition from gliding to powered flight in Bats.

This artist’s rendition shows woolly mammoths.
Environment

Predicting future climate with help from ice age data

Ashwini Sakharkar

Ice age climate analysis reduces worst-case warming expected from rising CO2.

Female tutor showing globe
Parenting

Social interactions shape infant language development

Dr. Prajakta Banik

Brain responses and language growth in infants.

Parenting

Infants hear more speech than music at home

Dr. Prajakta Banik

Comparison of speech and music input for infants over two years .

pet dog
Science

Experiencing homelessness with pets: A photo project

PLOS

Exhibition viewers reported positive change in attitudes towards people experiencing homelessness with a pet.

Thermal Earring
Invention

Thermal Earring: Smart earrings can monitor a person’s temperature

Amit Malewar

The earring outperformed a smartwatch.

dark server racks in computer network security
Technology

New superconductor with on/off switches

Amit Malewar

Switchable, energy-efficient superconducting circuits.

To charge, the microphones automatically return to their charging station.
Technology

Shape-changing smart speaker lets users mute certain areas of a room

Ashwini Sakharkar

New system can mute different parts of a noisy room or isolate one conversation in a chaotic environment.

Image showing Menthol cigarettes
Health

Taxes on menthol cigarettes are better than statewide bans

Vidya Nagalwade

Bans on menthol cigarettes in Massachusetts.

Image showing Polar bear on Ice.
Environment

The relationship between greenhouse gas emissions and polar bear survival rates

Vidya Nagalwade

How do greenhouse gas emissions affect polar bears?

Image showing octopus
Biology

Octopus sleep is surprisingly similar to humans, study

Pranjal Malewar

Like humans, octopuses transition between two sleep stages – a quiet stage and an active stage that resembles REM sleep in mammals.

electron fractionalization
Quantum Computing

A quantum computing leap with a magnetic twist

Pranjal Malewar

The team’s discoveries mark a first and promising step in constructing a type of fault-tolerant qubit.

Image showing Onpage quantum emitters illustration.
Nanotechnology

The ‘breath’ between atoms is a key building block for quantum technology

Vidya Nagalwade

Vibration between two layers of atoms can be used to engineer quantum technologies.

sonar image of the Pythias Oasis
Science

Scientists discovered chemically distinct liquid shooting up from the Oregon seafloor

Amit Malewar

Warm liquid spewing from Oregon seafloor comes from Cascadia fault, could offer clues to earthquake hazards.

Image showing heart
Health

Small proteins in the heart play an important role

Vidya Nagalwade

Researchers look closer at molecules that create the heartbeat.

Smartphone blood oxygen measurement
Health

Smartphones can detect blood oxygen saturation levels, study

Pranjal Malewar

This is a good first step toward developing biomedical devices that are aided by machine learning.

a reactor that can completely break down hard-to-destroy chemicals
Technology

New reactor can destroy ‘forever chemicals’

Ashwini Sakharkar

A new way to destroy both PFOA and PFOS.

A Southeast Greenland polar bear
Science

Greenland’s fjords harbor a unique group of polar bears

Amit Malewar

This group of polar bears has been isolated for several hundred years from their Arctic counterparts.

immune system’s aging
Health

COVID-19 deaths among the elderly may be due to genetic limits on cell division

Pranjal Malewar

Study uses a model that virtually examined the relation of T-cell clonal expansion with COVID-19 mortality.

a new, non-destructive method that images entire 3D biopsies instead of a slice
Health

Determining prostate cancer aggressiveness via 3D imaging method

Pranjal Malewar

A non-destructive 3D pathology with deep learning-assisted gland analysis.

Rough-nosed horned lizards
Science

Conserving rainforest lizards: Study offers an important road map

Pranjal Malewar

This DNA study provides critical information on conserving rainforest lizards.

dogfish sharks
Science

Shark intestines function like Nikola Tesla’s valve

Pranjal Malewar

It's time to use modern technology to look at these really amazing spiral intestines of sharks.

Turning a single photo into video
Technology

Turning a single photo into a video

Ashwini Sakharkar

Sometimes photos cannot truly capture a scene.

Measuring pulse with smartphone
Health

Measuring pulse with smartphone

Pranjal Malewar

New method uses device cameras to measure pulse, breathing rate and could help telehealth.

the rapid motions of solvent molecules
Science

Scientists captured the rapid motions of solvent molecules in light-driven electron transfer

Amit Malewar

Role of solvent molecules in light-driven electron transfer revealed.

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