Quasars acting as strong gravitational lenses are among the rarest finds in astronomy. Out of nearly 300,000 quasars cataloged in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, only twelve candidates were identified, and just three confirmed. ...
Researchers have developed a powerful new software toolbox that allows realistic brain models to be trained directly on data. This open-source framework, called JAXLEY, combines the precision of biophysical models with the ...
Under the influence of global warming, the Arctic is transitioning from a state dominated by multi-year thick ice to a "New Arctic" characterized predominantly by first-year thin ice. This younger ice is more fragile and ...
The ability to respond to changing surroundings was once considered exclusive to complex living organisms. Then came computers, specially designed for stimulus–response tasks, which can take in signals from their environment ...
Researchers at Queen Mary University of London have shown for the first time that an insect—the bumblebee Bombus terrestris—can decide where to forage for food based on different durations of visual cues. Their paper is published ...
Mining is a controversial topic: On one hand, we need raw materials such as copper for the transition to climate-friendly technologies, but on the other hand, exploration and raw material extraction are primarily associated ...
Artificial intelligence (AI) systems, particularly artificial neural networks, have proved to be highly promising tools for uncovering patterns in large amounts of data that would otherwise be difficult to detect. Over the ...
Recently, a research team from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed a new deep learning method that improves the classification accuracy of mixed microplastics in infrared ...
A team at Carnegie Mellon University is helping kids understand artificial intelligence with a soft, squishy, LED-lit neural network.
Planting trees is not enough. Although forest restoration efforts in the Atlantic Forest are advancing on a large scale, they are still unable to fully integrate replanted areas into the mosaic of native fragments. This is ...
