Reimagining sound and space

On a typical afternoon, MIT’s new Edward and Joyce Linde Music Building hums with life. On the fourth floor, a jazz combo works through a set in a rehearsal suite as engineers adjust microphone levels in a nearby control booth. Downstairs, the layered rhythms of Senegalese drumming pulse through a […]

AI firms are striking partnerships and giving some users in Asia free access to AI tools, in pursuit of larger sources of real-world consumer data for training (Itika Sharma Punit/Rest of World)

Itika Sharma Punit / Rest of World: AI firms are striking partnerships and giving some users in Asia free access to AI tools, in pursuit of larger sources of real-world consumer data for training  —  OpenAI, Google, and Perplexity create partnerships and free offers for a steady stream of consumer […]

A supergiant star’s expanding mystery

Astronomers from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have discovered a huge expanding bubble of gas and dust surrounding a red supergiant star. It’s the largest structure of its kind ever seen in the Milky Way. The bubble was blown into space around 4000 years ago. The question scientists are asking […]

Reaching Out

This image released on Aug. 20, 2025, combines new radio data from the Australia Telescope Compact Array with X-ray data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. Chandra first released an image of this pulsar and its surrounding hand-shaped nebula in 2009. The new data provides a fresh view of this exploded […]