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Social Sciences Mar 5, 2024

AI model trained with images can recognize visual indicators of gentrification

Seemingly overnight, a yoga studio replaces a barbershop, a coffee café takes over a small grocery, and a multi-story apartment building looms where older single-family homes once stood.

Social Sciences Mar 4, 2024

Although trust in science remains high, the public questions scientists' adherence to science's norms

Science is one of the most highly regarded institutions in America, with nearly three-quarters of the public expressing "a great deal" or "a fair amount" of confidence in scientists. But confidence in science has nonetheless ...

Earth Sciences Feb 28, 2024

Unlocking the ocean's secrets: Next-gen tech for precision seafloor mapping

The exploration of oceanic resources through seismic methods necessitates precise seafloor geophone positioning. Traditional techniques, however, grapple with issues such as the influence of outliers, suboptimal use of precise ...

Plants & Animals Feb 21, 2024

Potato plant radiation sensors could one day monitor radiation in areas surrounding power plants

While expanding nuclear energy production would provide carbon-free power and can help countries around the world meet their climate goals, nuclear energy could also come with some inherent risk. Radioactive pollution damages ...

Social Sciences Feb 21, 2024

Christchurch terrorist discussed attacks online a year before carrying them out, new research reveals

In March and August 2018, up to a year before he attacked two Christchurch mosques, Brenton Tarrant posted publicly online that he planned to do so. Until now, these statements have not been identified.

Quantum Physics Feb 19, 2024

Quantum computing engineers perform multiple control methods in just one atom

Quantum computing engineers at UNSW Sydney have shown they can encode quantum information—the special data in a quantum computer—in four unique ways within a single atom, inside a silicon chip.

Environment Feb 5, 2024

The limits of weather forecasting: How far into the future can we look?

Weather-related disasters and climatological extremes, including rivers bursting their banks and flooding as well as heat waves and droughts, cause tragic loss of life and cost billions of dollars in property damage each ...

Molecular & Computational biology Feb 5, 2024

Improving accuracy of molecular quantification in high throughput sequencing

A team at NDORMS has developed a new approach to significantly improve the accuracy of RNA sequencing. They have pinpointed the primary source of inaccurate quantification in both short and long-read RNA sequencing, and have ...

Astronomy Jan 30, 2024

Did we find exomoons or not?

Do exoplanets have exomoons? It would be extraordinary if they didn't, but as with all things, we don't know until we know. Astronomers thought they may have found exomoons several years ago around two exoplanets: Kepler-1625b ...

Other Jan 28, 2024

Science sleuths are using technology to find fakery and plagiarism in published research

Allegations of research fakery at a leading cancer center have turned a spotlight on scientific integrity and the amateur sleuths uncovering image manipulation in published research.

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