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A new study finds that familiar video games like Super Mario Bros. and Yoshi can spark childlike wonder, increase happiness, and reduce burnout risk in young adults.
New research shows Super Mario and Yoshi games can boost happiness and reduce burnout risk among stressed young adults.
Rebecca Shavitupda
A team from Mass General Brigham and MIT has created a firefly inspired ingestible capsule that shines light inside the small intestine and reads how much comes back. In pigs, its luminance signal identified acute mesenteric ischemia with about 90 percent accuracy, hinting at a future where a simple pill could help doctors catch this often fatal emergency before the bowel dies.
HealthSwallowable light sensing pill could catch deadly gut ischemia before it killsJoshua Shavit
Dust clouds reflect starlight around the star R Doradus.
SpaceNearby red giant challenges how stars spread the building blocks of lifeJoseph Shavit
JWST observations trace how Milky Way-like galaxies grew from chaotic early systems into stable spiral galaxies over billions of years.
SpaceAstronomers reveal how the Milky Way’s violent youth forged a calmer spiral giantJoseph Shavit
New research shows magnetic cloaks can be built for real-world shapes using superconductors and soft magnets.
InnovationsScientists bend magnetic fields around real-world objects to create ‘invisibility cloaks’Joshua Shavit
Engineers at UC San Diego have created a soft, AI powered armband that can read your arm gestures even during intense motion and use them to control machines in real time, a step toward human machine interfaces that work in the messy conditions of everyday life.
AINew soft armband uses AI to read gestures while you runRebecca Shavit
Excavation site Gird-î Kazhaw in the foreground; the modern village of Bestansur in the background.
DiscoveriesArcheological findings in Iraq rewrite history of religious coexistenceShy Cohen
New research shows Earth’s day stalled at 19 hours for a billion years, reshaping views of rotation, atmosphere, and life.
SpaceEarth’s day was only 19 hours long for a billion years, study findsJoseph Shavit
Plastic bottles and polyester textiles may become feedstock for medicines.
HealthResearchers convert recycled household plastics into anti-cancer medicationMac Oliveau
Antelope bone fragment in rock from the 3-million-year-old early human site, Makapansgaat (South Africa).
DiscoveriesMetabolites preserved in fossil bones reveal ancient diets, diseases, and habitatsJoseph Shavit
Ashwathi Menon dancing with a robot. Researchers find Indian dance gestures reveal richer movement building blocks than natural hand grasps.
InnovationsClassical Indian dance is teaching robots how to move and use their handsRaz Devraj
McGill researchers show dopamine supports movement through steady signaling, not moment-to-moment control, reshaping views of Parkinson’s treatment.
HealthNew research challenges our understanding of Parkinson’s diseaseRebecca Shavit
Researchers developed a strong, recyclable cellulose plastic that dissolves in seawater, offering a new way to stop microplastic pollution.
Green ImpactPlant-based plastic fully dissolves in seawater eliminating microplastic polutionMac Oliveau
Researchers point out that this is a physical phenomenon called ultraweak photon emission, or UPE.
HealthLiving plants and animals emit a faint glow that fades after deathJoshua Shavit
The final stage of the superkilonova: The neutron stars merge, triggering a kilonova that produces heavy metals, which glow with red light.
SpaceCosmic blast looked like a kilonova, then turned into a superkilonova mysteryJoseph Shavit
The DTU team (from left): Jens Arnbak Holbøll Nielsen, Axel Bogdan Bregnsbo, Zheng-Hao Liu, Ulrik Lund Andersen, Romain Brunel, Emil Erik Bay Østergaard, Óscar Cordero Boronat, Jonas Schou Neergaard-Nielsen.
InnovationsScientists reduce the time for quantum learning tasks from 20 million years to 15 minutesShy Cohen
Using weather radar, scientists tracked flying insects across the United States for a decade. They found stable national numbers but sharp regional gains and losses linked to winter warming and land use.
DiscoveriesScientists reveal the staggering number of insects flying in the sky above the USRebecca Shavit