Cartogram maps provide new view of climate change risk
Scientists have developed cartograms—maps that convey information by contorting areas—to visualize the risks of climate change in a novel way.
Scientists have developed cartograms—maps that convey information by contorting areas—to visualize the risks of climate change in a novel way.
Environment
Dec 7, 2017
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A new QUT-led study has found ways to detect hidden dangers of repeated stresses on seagrass using statistical modelling.
Environment
Dec 7, 2017
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What if there were a scientific way to come up with the most interesting sports headlines? With the development of computational journalism, this could be possible very soon.
Computer Sciences
Dec 7, 2017
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Laboratories on Earth hardly make the news, unless they come up with life-saving cures. So why would anyone care about a lab in space? The medicine you take on Earth begins with cell research, and the latest experiments on ...
Space Exploration
Dec 7, 2017
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A group of 2017 Nobel Laureates have addressed the lack of female representation in sciences ahead of the prize-awarding ceremony in Stockholm.
Other
Dec 7, 2017
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Flames from the largest and most destructive Southern California wildfire churned toward coastal and mountain communities northwest of Los Angeles on Thursday, disrupting travel on a major highway and triggering more evacuations.
Environment
Dec 7, 2017
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Freshwater resources are critical to both human civilization and natural ecosystems, but UBC researchers have discovered that changes to ground vegetation can have as much of an impact on global water resources as climate ...
Environment
Dec 7, 2017
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A quarter of the world's hungry people are in sub-Saharan Africa and the numbers are growing. Between 2015 and 2016, the number of hungry – those in distress and unable to access enough calories for a healthy and productive ...
Environment
Dec 7, 2017
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AI workloads are different from the calculations most of our current computers are built to perform. AI implies prediction, inference, intuition. But the most creative machine learning algorithms are hamstrung by machines ...
Hardware
Dec 7, 2017
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Cricket organisers must take pollution into account before allowing matches to go ahead, the Indian Medical Association told the country's governing body for the sport Thursday, after a smog-plagued Test match in New Delhi.
Environment
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