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BEIJING, June 28 (Xinhua) -- Exploring space means an enterprising spirit and an optimistic pursuit of the unknown, Chinese astronaut Wang Yaping said at a cere

The Roundtable Panel: a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond. Today's panelists are WAMC’s Alan Chartock, investigative journalist Rosemary Armao, Tetherless World Professor of Computer, Web and Cognitive Sciences at RPI and Director of the RPI-IBM Artificial Intelligence research collaboration Jim Hendler, and The Empire Report’s J.P. Miller.

Imagine you're sitting on a train. You look out the window and see another train on an adjacent track that appears to be moving.

A computational model developed by MIT neuroscientist could explain differences between autistic and neurotypical adults in recognizing facial emotions.

Standing by its commitment to provide equitable and open access to scholarship, MIT has ended negotiations with Elsevier for a new journals contract. Elsevier failed to present a proposal that aligned with the principles of the MIT Framework for Publisher Contracts.

Parkinson's disease is best-known as a disorder of movement. Patients often experience tremors, loss of balance, and difficulty initiating movement. The disease also has lesser-known symptoms that are nonmotor, including depression.

Neurons in the parafascicular thalamus project to three different parts of the basal ganglia. Targeting these circuits could be a new target for treating motor dysfunction and depression associated with Parkinson's disease.

MIT neuroscientists identified three circuits in the thalamus that influence the development of motor and nonmotor symptoms of Parkinson’s disease. And by manipulating these circuits, they could reverse Parkinson’s symptoms in mice.

/PRNewswire/ -- The Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) conference—the largest worldwide event exploring artificial intelligence, machine learning,...

The widely used pesticide glyphosate affects the ability of bumblebee colonies to regulate the temperature of their brood, and more. Read on!