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Close-up of a police body-worn camera clipped to the chest of a dark uniform shirt.

AI turns bodycam footage into text. Can it keep the speakers straight?

Headshot of Katya Poltorak
by Katya Poltorak
A student wearing a virtual reality headset holds controllers while using a VR system in Northeastern University’s Immersive Media Lab.

This virtual reality system lets healthcare students practice with AI

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by Tanner Stening
A pipette tip releases a single droplet into a small sample tube, shot from above in pink and blue lab lighting.

PFAS may raise blood pressure during pregnancy. Who is at risk?

Headshot of Katya Poltorak
by Katya Poltorak
A spider with a yellow, black and white striped abdomen at the center of its web, a silk-wrapped grasshopper just below it and blurred purple lavender in the background.

A spider in disguise puts wildlife travel habits in the spotlight

Headshot of Katya Poltorak
by Katya Poltorak
Wang looks into a microscope eyepiece and adjusts a sample with a gloved hand as a nearby monitor displays rings of cells glowing green against a dark background.

Who knew? Cells have memory, professor describes in paper

Headshot of Rich McKay
by Rich McKay
Close-up of a microchip on a circuit board lit in blue and red.

This AI-powered chip can offer a deeper look at faulty brain activity

Headshot of Katya Poltorak
by Katya Poltorak
Illustration of a car surrounded by disembodied eyes, with a beam of binary code connecting a central eye to the vehicle; icons for cloud storage, a personal ID, location tracking, and data charts surround the scene, symbolizing surveillance and data collection from connected vehicles.

Your car is collecting more data about you than you think

Headshot of Cesareo Contreras
by Cesareo Contreras
Illustrations of a girl with musical notes and paper and pencils and notebooks.

What regular music practice means for a developing brain

Headshot of Katya Poltorak
by Katya Poltorak
Rows of translucent orange-red softgel capsules, likely fish oil or vitamin D supplements, arranged in a diagonal grid pattern.

Trusted supplements in the hot seat: could they harm the aging brain?

Headshot of Katya Poltorak
by Katya Poltorak
Kneeling gardener holding freshly dug potatoes over soil beside a garden fork

Scientists dig into the potato’s potential to fight gut inflammation

Headshot of Katya Poltorak
by Katya Poltorak

Some rats freeze when anticipating danger. Others make a run for it

Headshot of Katya Poltorak
by Katya Poltorak
A stylized graphic of a prompt input field and "Generate" button set against a background of binary code, representing AI text generation.

Are bots changing how people talk? Language in the age of AI

Headshot of Katya Poltorak
by Katya Poltorak