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4 weeks ago | 
aaas.org | Becky Ham
Washington, D.C. — The American Association for the Advancement of Science, one of the world’s largest general scientific societies and publisher of the Science family of journals, announces the 2024 class of AAAS Fellows, a distinguished lifetime honor within the scientific community. This latest class is comprised of 471 scientists, engineers and innovators across 24 AAAS disciplinary Sections. View the 2024 class of Fellows.
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Dec 18, 2024 | 
scitechdaily.com | Becky Ham
Footprints from Kenya’s Turkana Basin show that Homo erectus and Paranthropus boisei lived simultaneously 1.5 million years ago, with distinct bipedalism patterns suggesting different evolutionary trajectories. Newly discovered fossil footprints have revealed that at least two different hominid species walked along the muddy, submerged edge of a lake in Kenya’s Turkana Basin at the same time, approximately 1.5 million years ago.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
popular-archaeology.com | Becky Ham
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)—Newly discovered footprints show that at least two hominid species were walking through the muddy submerged edge of a lake in Kenya’s Turkana Basin at the same time, about 1.5 million years ago.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
aaas.org | Becky Ham
A healthy brain balances "activate" and "inhibit" signals in its neural microcircuitry, with inhibitory signaling often provided by cell receptors for the neurotransmitter GABA.
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
news.mit.edu | Becky Ham
The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) has selected MIT to lead a new Innovation Corps (I-Corps) Hub to support a partnership of eight New England universities committed to expanding science and technology entrepreneurship across the region, accelerating the translation of discoveries into new solutions that benefit society. NSF announced the five-year cooperative agreement of up to $15 million today. The NSF I-Corps Hub: New England Region is expected to launch on Jan. 1, 2025.
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Sep 17, 2024 | 
scitechdaily.com | Becky Ham
Illustration of a human hand as it might appear if the new tissue transparency effect proves effective in humans. Currently, the effect has only been tested with animals in a laboratory setting. Note that dyes may be harmful. Always exercise caution with dyes and do not consume directly, apply to people or animals, or otherwise misuse.
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Sep 5, 2024 | 
scitechdaily.com | Becky Ham
Meteorite impacts and volcanic eruption producing glass beads on the Moon. Credit: Illustration by T. Zhang & Y. WangAnalysis of lunar samples reveals that the Moon experienced volcanic activity until 120 million years ago, much later than previously thought. This insight comes from examining glass beads in the samples, indicating localized volcanic activity fueled by radioactive elements.
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Aug 21, 2024 | 
news.mit.edu | Becky Ham
Duane Boning ’84, SM ’86, and PhD ’91 has been named the next MIT vice provost for international activities (VPIA), effective Sept. 1. Boning, the Clarence J. LeBel Professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at MIT, succeeds Japan Steel Industry Professor Richard Lester, who has served as VPIA since 2015. The VPIA provides intellectual leadership, guidance, and oversight of MIT’s international policies and engagements.
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Aug 20, 2024 | 
medicalxpress.com | Becky Ham
An unprecedented effort to sequence the genome, exome and RNA in tumors from patients with multiple myeloma defines distinct subtypes of the disease, according to an international team of scientists led by researchers from the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), part of the City of Hope.
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Jul 31, 2024 | 
aaas.org | Becky Ham
When the question is "how are you feeling on the inside?," it's our vagus nerve that offers the answer. But how does the body's longest cranial nerve, running from brain to large intestine, encode sensory information from the visceral organs? For his work investigating and mapping this internal information highway, Qiancheng Zhao is the 2024 grand prize winner of the Science & PINS Prize for Neuromodulation.
