The vast majority of efforts to map the brain’s language network have involved native English speakers. Now, studying brain scans of speakers of 45 different languages, neuroscientists have found this network appears essentially the same across languages.
MIT research suggests that if Congress automatically extended unemployment benefits at set points during a recession, it would provide clarity to workers in times of economic stress. “That kind of uncertainty is costly to people,” says Jonathan Gruber.
Engineers have found a way to improve the efficiency of systems that heat and evaporate water. Their tailored surface treatment could significantly reduce these systems’ energy use.
Astronomers have detected a strange and persistent radio signal from a far-off galaxy that appears to be flashing with surprising regularity. The clear and periodic pattern of fast radio bursts may originate from a distant neutron star.
Professor Robert Simcoe and his team will receive 100 hours with the new James Webb Space Telescope to look at some of the first stars and galaxies to form after the Big Bang. “I’m tremendously excited,” says Simcoe.
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Most vaccines require a series of multiple shots before a recipient is fully vaccinated. Now Koch Institute researchers have developed microparticles that can be tuned to deliver their payload at different times, leading to “self-boosting” vaccines.