Earthquakes—like lightning—strike unpredictably. The Earth's tectonic plates, however, hide subtle warnings that a major fault may soon break. Like forecasting a thunderstorm, knowing how to read the warnings could help ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 9, 2021
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The much-awaited new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is due later today. Ahead of the release, debate has erupted about the computer models at the very heart of global climate projections.
Environment
Aug 9, 2021
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Twenty natural strongholds would protect red squirrels in Scotland even if grey squirrels were to run rampant across the country, a new study shows.
Plants & Animals
Aug 4, 2021
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Modern weather forecasts and climate studies rely heavily on computer simulations implementing physical models. These models need to make cohesive large-scale predictions but also include enough small-scale detail to be relevant ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 4, 2021
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Carbon is everywhere. It's in the atmosphere, in the oceans, in the soil, in our food, in our bodies. As the backbone of all organic molecules that make up life, carbon is a very accurate predictor of crop yields. And soil ...
Environment
Aug 2, 2021
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Using technology familiar to computer gamers, University of Queensland scientists are creating 'digital twins' of mango and macadamia orchards to help boost food production.
Agriculture
Jul 30, 2021
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In collaboration with the United States Navy's Underwater Archaeology Branch, I taught a computer how to recognize shipwrecks on the ocean floor from scans taken by aircraft and ships on the surface. The computer model we ...
Archaeology
Jul 23, 2021
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A team of solar physicists led by Laurent Gizon of the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) and the University of Göttingen in Germany has reported the discovery of global oscillations of the Sun with very ...
Astronomy
Jul 20, 2021
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Scientists from the department of Anatomy and Embryology at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Tsukuba created a computer model to simulate the development of complex structures based on the Delta-Notch signaling ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Jul 20, 2021
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A new mathematical model helps predict the tiny changes in carbon-based materials that could yield interesting properties.
Nanomaterials
Jul 19, 2021
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