Autism spectrum disorder affects males far more frequently than females, with diagnoses occurring roughly four times more often in boys. Scientists have long suspected that females may possess biological protective mechanisms that reduce vulnerability to autism, but direct experimental evidence has remained limited.

Harvard’s Visual Computing Group developed BRIDGE, a simulation system that converts standard standing-basketball footage into realistic wheelchair-basketball videos.

Ice-nucleating proteins naturally bind only to organic surfaces, so understanding whether they can bind to human-made materials can help with applications like deicing, creating artificial snow, cryo-medicine, and more. In Biointerphases, researchers found that the proteins connect to a surface in a layer of single molecules with their ice formation side facing out, allowing ice to grow atop the surface, and that they do not seem to care what type of material they are binding to; for both artificial and natural surfaces, the INPs bind in remarkably similar ways.