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First Travelytics Newsletter: Let the Fun Begin!

New method assesses and improves the reliability of radiologists’ diagnostic reports April 4, 2025
The framework helps clinicians choose phrases that more accurately reflect the likelihood that certain conditions are present in X-rays.
Taking the “training wheels” off clean energy April 3, 2025
At the 2025 MIT Energy Conference, energy leaders from around the world discussed how to make green technologies competitive with fossil fuels.
Vana is letting users own a piece of the AI models trained on their data April 3, 2025
More than 1 million people are contributing their data to Vana’s decentralized network, which started as an MIT class project.
Researchers teach LLMs to solve complex planning challenges April 2, 2025
This new framework leverages a model’s reasoning abilities to create a “smart assistant” that finds the optimal solution to multistep problems.
Pattie Maes receives ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Research Award March 31, 2025
Professor of media technology honored for research in human-computer interaction that is considered both fundamental and influential.

The Trump train slows April 2, 2025
Results from Florida and Wisconsin suggest a familiar pattern in American politics
Will Elon Musk’s cash splash pay off in Wisconsin? March 31, 2025
A judicial race has become a referendum on the billionaire’s behaviour
DOGE comes for the data wonks March 30, 2025
America may soon be unable to measure itself properly
Checks and Balance newsletter: Who is (or was) the smartest person in government? March 29, 2025
Texas troopers are in more and more lethal car chases March 27, 2025
An unremarked cost of greater border security

The Uninhabited Heard and McDonald Islands, Targeted by Tariffs, Are a Biological Wonderland April 3, 2025
Trump’s tariffs put a spotlight on the uninhabited Heard and McDonald Islands, which comprise a remote volcanic refuge for penguins and seals and a UNESCO World Heritage site
JWST Delivers Best-Yet Look at That Worrisome Asteroid April 3, 2025
New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope show that the potentially hazardous asteroid 2024 YR4 is a building-sized space rock
Bonobo Calls Are More like Human Language Than We Thought April 3, 2025
Bonobos’ grunts, peeps and whistles may share an advanced linguistic property with human language
Secretive Russian Military Satellites Release Mystery Object into Orbit April 3, 2025
A trio of classified Russian satellites, called Kosmos, has sparked intrigue in space-tracking circles after an unidentified object was launched into orbit
Xenolinguistics—the Study of Alien Languages—Helps to Reveal Why All Beings Communicate April 3, 2025
Studying how extraterrestrials might communicate could help prepare for first contact and also hint at the point of language itself