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A new chapter for MIT Reads
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A new chapter for MIT Reads

As it marks its 10-year anniversary, MIT Reads is being reimagined for the age of artificial intelligence. Recognizing the need to foster social connection and a sense of our shared humanity, the popular MIT Libraries’ program will turn its focus to fiction and memoir, and to the particular power of stories to help us understand ourselves and our place in the world. “At MIT, we spend a great deal of time on imagining and building for the future. Reading fiction prompts us to think about how what we build might change us,” says MIT Libraries Director Chris Bourg. “Reading together also gives us the increasingly rare opportunity for both individual reflection and shared connection.” MIT Reads ...

📅 2026-09-18 16:30:00    •    MIT News
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Anti-transgender legislation can cause psychological distress even in states with trans-friendly laws
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Anti-transgender legislation can cause psychological distress even in states with trans-friendly laws

Legislation that affects or discriminates against transgender and gender-diverse individuals can cause more psychological distress than personal experiences of discrimination, according to new Virginia Commonwealth University research published in the journal American Psychologist. The study also found that individuals with those identities experienced psychological distress from anti-transgender laws even if they lived in a state with legislation that is friendly toward transgender and gender-diverse individuals.

📅 2026-09-18 16:20:08    •    Phys.org
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An extremely stable quantum gas offers a new lens on strongly interacting systems
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An extremely stable quantum gas offers a new lens on strongly interacting systems

Molecular gases are a new form of artificial quantum matter. However, when these molecules collide, they are often lost extremely rapidly. Researchers from Radboud University and Columbia University have been able to suppress this collisional loss, paving the way for strongly interacting quantum matter. This new artificial quantum matter allows researchers to study quantum behavior relevant to electrons in real materials. Their results are published in Science.

📅 2026-09-18 16:20:01    •    Phys.org
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A new understanding of how enzymes influence bacterial protein production
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A new understanding of how enzymes influence bacterial protein production

Antimicrobial resistance is one of the most pressing global health and development challenges of our time. Bacteria and other pathogens are rapidly developing resistance to existing treatments, making infections harder to treat. Without new approaches, minor inconveniences today, such as routine surgeries or even a paper cut, could become life-threatening tomorrow. Now, an international group of scientists reports the discovery of aminovaleramididine synthetase (AvaS), the first identified pyridoxal phosphate (PLP)-dependent enzyme responsible for producing a chemical modification linked to how bacteria respond to metabolic stress. This discovery sheds new light on how bacteria use RNA modif...

📅 2026-09-18 16:20:00    •    MIT News
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'Plasticorals,' coral rubble fused with plastic, represent a new form of plastic pollution
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'Plasticorals,' coral rubble fused with plastic, represent a new form of plastic pollution

During routine beach litter surveys on the subtropical island of Okinawa, Japan, researchers came across small, brightly colored specks in the pale coral rubble. Back at the lab, spectroscopic and microscopic analyses revealed that these specks are, in fact, melted polymers from common household plastics that have seeped inseparably into the skeletal pores of the dead coral pieces.

📅 2026-09-18 16:00:02    •    Phys.org
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'Of course I am worried': Live Science readers react to US weapons in space
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'Of course I am worried': Live Science readers react to US weapons in space

The idea of weapons in space, once a plot of science fiction, became a reality Monday (Sept. 14), when U.S. Air Force Secretary Troy Meink revealed at the Air, Space and Cyber Conference in Maryland that the United States had deployed "on-orbit space control weapons capable of defending the Joint Force against hostile adversary action."Experts are worried that with this new announcement, outer space may become the next frontier for an arms race. The 1967 Outer Space Treaty, signed by both the U.S. and the Soviet Union, dictated that no weapons should be placed in orbit. But the treaty had no enforcement mechanism, meaning the U.S.' announcement may not result in any international sanctions, ...

📅 2026-09-18 15:46:02    •    Live Science
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From the start, the solar system chose fire over ice to build its first bodies
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From the start, the solar system chose fire over ice to build its first bodies

When the solar system first took up the task of building solid bodies—such as planets, moons and protoplanets—it basically had a choice between two ingredients: heat-forged chondrules, which were millimeter-sized bits of rock, and matrix, a fine-grained, cold dust loaded with water ice and organic molecules. And from the get-go, the solar system chose fire.

📅 2026-09-18 15:40:09    •    Phys.org
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Cultural norms can shape how social gestures influence perceived attractiveness
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Cultural norms can shape how social gestures influence perceived attractiveness

Humans are social animals, but we have a diversity of societies, each with its own customs, behaviors and expectations. It's obvious that those can affect how we respond to someone—favoring the comfort of familiar behaviors, for example—and people often try to account for that in themselves and others. But sometimes the effect is more subtle.

📅 2026-09-18 15:40:04    •    Phys.org
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Chatbot attachment issues
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Chatbot attachment issues

Julian De Freitas. Photo by Grace DuVal Science & Tech Chatbot attachment issues When AI companions get a personality update, some users respond with grief, study finds Sy Boles Harvard Staff Writer September 18, 2026 4 min read Mourning the loss of somebody you care about is common after a breakup, divorce, or death. But in an era of growing reliance on AI for companionship, loss comes in a new form: the model update. In a paper in Nature Human Behavior, Julian De Freitas, associate professor of business administration at Harvard Business School, found that some people who engaged with social robots reported feeling closer to those companions than to most people, and experienced their loss ...

📅 2026-09-18 15:05:25    •    Harvard Gazette
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What ‘good luck’ means to a coal miner
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What ‘good luck’ means to a coal miner

Lynette Roth. Photos by Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Staff Photographer Arts & Culture What ‘good luck’ means to a coal miner Anna Lamb Harvard Staff Writer September 18, 2026 6 min read Berlin artist explores labor, pride, and unsung heroes of Germany’s ‘economic miracle’ in Harvard exhibit Following the economic and political fallout from World War II, Germany underwent what scholars call the “wirtschaftswunder” or “economic miracle” during which industry boomed and rapid reconstruction led to increased prosperity. But who was responsible for creating the miracle, and what happened when they were no longer needed? That’s what Kurdistan-born artist and Berliner Pinar Öğrenci asks in her work ...

📅 2026-09-18 15:04:22    •    Harvard Gazette
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Scientists just named a new snake after Guns N’ Roses legend Slash
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Scientists just named a new snake after Guns N’ Roses legend Slash

A newly discovered snake from New Guinea has been named after Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash, who has loved reptiles since childhood. Genetic testing and physical differences confirmed that the reddish-brown groundsnake, Lielaphis slashi, is a species scientists had never formally recognized before. The nonvenomous snake may use large rear teeth to catch slippery lizards and reptile eggs.

📅 2026-09-18 12:07:03    •    ScienceDaily
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Scientists are about to test Einstein’s gravity with exotic matter
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Scientists are about to test Einstein’s gravity with exotic matter

Scientists have found a new way to create a controlled beam of muonium, an exotic atom containing a heavier cousin of the electron. The advance could allow researchers to test for the first time whether gravity acts on second-generation particles exactly as Einstein’s theory predicts. Any unexpected difference would be a major surprise and could potentially point toward new physics, including a hypothetical fifth force.

📅 2026-09-18 11:07:25    •    ScienceDaily
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