Archaeological work in the Xingu territory of Brazil is rewriting assumptions about civilization in the Amazon. Through decades of partnership between the Kuikuro people and Western researchers, evidence of a large, complex civilization in the Brazilian territory has emerged.
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Researchers are finding new ways to use artificial intelligence in forensic investigations, from identifying insect species at crime scenes to organizing complex evidence in laboratories.
The 2025 Ig Nobel ceremony, held at Boston University, continued the tradition of celebrating unorthodox curiosity. Winners included researchers who discovered that painting cows with zebra-like stripes reduces fly bites, scientists who studied whether drunken bats can still echolocate properly, and a team that perfected the physics of cooking the Italian dish cacio e pepe.
Since its relaunch in 2023, The Semcer Center for Healthcare Innovation (CHI) has had “interdisciplinary research at its core.” The CHI’s mission to improve the patient experience through technology will now continue under the leadership of researcher and biomedical engineering professor Dr.
Researchers at NYU Langone Health have discovered that exposure to a widely used plastic additive called di-2-ethylhexyl phthalate (DEHP) could be linked to more than 350,000 deaths from heart disease globally in 2018 alone.