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  • 1 month ago | news.mit.edu | Becky Ham

    MIT Provost Cynthia Barnhart has announced that Vice Provost for the Arts Philip S. Khoury will step down from the position on Aug. 31. Khoury, the Ford International Professor of History, served in the role for 19 years. After a sabbatical, he will rejoin the faculty in the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS).

  • 1 month ago | techxplore.com | Becky Ham

    In the dim light of the lab, friends, family, and strangers watched the image of a pianist playing for them, the pianist's fingers projected onto the moving keys of a real grand piano that filled the space with music. Watching the ghostly musicians, faces and bodies blurred at their edges, several listeners shared one strong but strange conviction: "feeling someone's presence" while "also knowing that I am the only one in the room.""It's tough to explain," another listener said.

  • 1 month ago | news.mit.edu | Becky Ham

    In the dim light of the lab, friends, family, and strangers watched the image of a pianist playing for them, the pianist’s fingers projected onto the moving keys of a real grand piano that filled the space with music. Watching the ghostly musicians, faces and bodies blurred at their edges, several listeners shared one strong but strange conviction: “feeling someone’s presence” while “also knowing that I am the only one in the room.”“It’s tough to explain,” another listener said.

  • 2 months 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.

  • 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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