An App Predicts What a Baby Wants A computer program, powered by artificial intelligence, is capable of identifying and differentiating between babies’ cries to tell parents what their children want. The system can detect whether the cry is because of hunger or...
April’s Total Solar Eclipse The sun is about to pull another disappearing act across North America, turning day into night during a total solar eclipse. The peak spectacle on April 8 will last up to 4 minutes, 28 seconds in the path of total darkness — twice as...
Lefties vs. Righties Right-handed people dominate the world, and it’s been that way since the Stone Age. How do we know? Researchers figured it out by measuring the arm bones in ancient skeletons and by examining wear patterns in prehistoric tools. In Western...
Sea Otters Returned to a Degraded Coastline Against all odds, a distressed California coastal ecosystem is on the mend, in large part, thanks to the insatiable appetite sea otters have for crabs. In a groundbreaking study published this week in Nature, scientists...
Whimsical Street Art Whimsical Street Art Catches Everyone Off Guard and Delights Downtown Boston at 16 Locations In celebration of winter, a group of Canadian artists have come to Boston and put together all kinds of art installations as part of a walking exhibit...
