1+ hour, 48+ min ago  (763+ words) In southwestern Bangladesh, where extreme heat and severe tropical cyclones threaten the lives of millions of people, a new kind of climate refuge has opened its doors. At the Baradal Aftab Uddin Collegiate School in the Satkhira district, the Jameel…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (850+ words) For people at high risk of developing breast cancer, yearly mammograms may not be enough to detect tumors early. To make earlier diagnosis easier, an MIT team has developed portable detectors based on ultrasound, which could be used much more…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (598+ words) The brain's capacity to use and understand language expands rapidly in the first years of life. But by age 4, language processing is already handled by the left side of the brain, as in adults, according to an MIT study....

2+ mon, 3+ week ago  (711+ words) A new study from MIT suggests that a carcinogen that has been found in medications and in drinking water contaminated by chemical plants may have a much more severe impact on children than adults. In a study of mice, the…...

9+ mon, 3+ week ago  (667+ words) Fetal SMPL was trained on 20, 000 MRI volumes to predict the location and size of a fetus and create sculpture-like 3 D representations. The approach could enable doctors to precisely measure things like the size of a baby's head and compare these…...