From 2023 to 2024, the world experienced a major El Niño event, affecting everything from global weather and climate to ecosystems and economies. Now, with U.S. National Science Foundation support from three grants and a new modeling approach… ​From 2023 to 2024, the world experienced a major El Niño event, affecting everything from global weather …

Scientists extend El Niño forecasts to 18 months in advance Read More »

Humans and chimpanzees both take part in rapid social exchanges, suggesting some foundational principles of language may have evolved earlier than previously thought ​Humans and chimpanzees both take part in rapid social exchanges, suggesting some foundational principles of language may have evolved earlier than previously thought Humans and chimpanzees both take part in rapid social exchanges, …

Chimps respond to each other at a pace similar to human conversation Read More »

Sea-floor nodules raise oxygen levels in the deep ocean, suggesting they may have a valuable role in ecosystems and adding to concerns about the impact of deep-sea mining ​Sea-floor nodules raise oxygen levels in the deep ocean, suggesting they may have a valuable role in ecosystems and adding to concerns about the impact of deep-sea …

Shock discovery reveals deep sea nodules are a source of oxygen Read More »

A weather and climate model that fuses artificial intelligence and physics simulations can match state-of-the-art performance while slashing the required computer power, say Google researchers ​A weather and climate model that fuses artificial intelligence and physics simulations can match state-of-the-art performance while slashing the required computer power, say Google researchers A weather and climate model that …

Google AI slashes computer power needed for weather forecasts Read More »

This week, NSF Director Sethuraman Panchanathan visited Seoul, South Korea, to celebrate U.S.-South Korea partnerships in semiconductor and bioeconomy research and explore new collaboration opportunities. During his trip, Panchanathan met with… ​This week, NSF Director Sethuraman Panchanathan visited Seoul, South Korea, to celebrate U.S.-South Korea partnerships in semiconductor and bioeconomy research and explore new collaboration …

This week with NSF Director Panchanathan Read More »

What does your license plate say about you? In the United States, more than 9 million vehicles carry personalized “vanity” license plates, in which preferred words, digits, or phrases replace an otherwise random assignment of letters and numbers to identify a vehicle. While each state and the District of Columbia maintains its own rules about …

License plates of MIT Read More »

A new analysis of deaths during the covid-19 pandemic estimates that women and those in certain minority groups experienced the greatest declines in life expectancy ​A new analysis of deaths during the covid-19 pandemic estimates that women and those in certain minority groups experienced the greatest declines in life expectancy A new analysis of deaths during …

Covid-19 hit women harder than men in India, unlike most of the world Read More »

Galaxies that stop making stars don’t usually start up again, but now we’ve seen one wake from the dead for the first time – and it may explain what we’ve got wrong about galaxies in the early universe ​Galaxies that stop making stars don’t usually start up again, but now we’ve seen one wake from …

Zombie galaxy came back to life after 20 million years Read More »

The first ever full-scale demonstration of a nuclear reactor designed to passively cool itself in an emergency was a success, showing that it should be possible to build nuclear plants without the risk of dangerous meltdown ​The first ever full-scale demonstration of a nuclear reactor designed to passively cool itself in an emergency was a …

Chinese nuclear reactor is completely meltdown-proof Read More »