Orionids 2025: Meteor shower caused by Halley’s Comet peaks as two new comets cross the sky
Skywatchers are set for something special after dark on Monday, Oct. 20, through Tuesday, Oct. 21, when an annual meteor shower produced by Halley's Comet peaks just as two recently discovered comets reach their brightest points in the night sky. According to the...
The Oral-B iO Series 9 is one of our all-time favorite smart-enabled electric toothbrushes and now it’s $100 cheaper
The Oral-B iO Series 9 needs no introduction. Sleek, durable and app-connected, it is one of the handful of models available on the market that offer a whopping seven brushing modes and AI-powered brushing guidance. This smart gem can actively help take your dental...
Black eyes, orbital fractures and retinal detachment: Pickleball-related eye injuries are on the rise in the US
Eye injuries related to pickleball have increased at an "alarming rate" as the sport's popularity has exploded in the United States, a new study finds. More and more people in the U.S. are taking up pickleball as a leisure activity, with recent estimates suggesting...
Scottish data centres powering AI already using enough water to fill 27 million bottles a year
Data centres powering artificial intelligence (AI) in Scotland are using enough tap water to fill 27 million half-litre bottles a year, according to data obtained by BBC News. AI systems such as the large language models (LLMs) that power OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's...
Blending neuroscience, AI, and music to create mental health innovations
Computational neuroscientist and singer/songwriter Kimaya (Kimy) Lecamwasam, who also plays electric bass and guitar, says music has been a core part of her life for as long as she can remember. She grew up in a musical family and played in bands all through high...
Remembering Professor Emerita Jeanne Shapiro Bamberger, a pioneer in music education
MIT Music and Theater Arts fondly remembers the legacy of Professor Emerita Jeanne Shapiro Bamberger, who passed away peacefully at home in Berkeley, California, of natural causes on Dec. 12, 2024 at the age of 100. For three decades at the Institute, Bamberger found...
Method teaches generative AI models to locate personalized objects
Say a person takes their French Bulldog, Bowser, to the dog park. Identifying Bowser as he plays among the other canines is easy for the dog-owner to do while onsite. But if someone wants to use a generative AI model like GPT-5 to monitor their pet while they are at...
Satellites watch as record-breaking ocean waves carry a storm’s power across the sea
Satellites recorded the largest ocean swells ever seen from space, highlighting how massive waves can act as storm "messengers," carrying a storm's power across entire oceans. Observations from the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission allowed scientists...
Not-so-dark matter? Mysterious substance might leave red and blue ‘fingerprints’ on light
Dark matter, one of the universe's best kept secrets, may have been quietly painting the cosmos in faint, detectable hues of red and blue all along, a new study suggests. Dark matter makes up more than 80% of the matter in the universe, yet it doesn't emit, absorb, or...
A giant weak spot in Earth’s magnetic field is getting bigger — and it could be bad news for satellites
A weak region in Earth's magnetic field has grown by an area roughly half the size of continental Europe in the last 10 years. That's according to data collected by the European Space Agency's (ESA) Swarm satellite constellation over the last 11 years. Swarm has been...