Astronomers have applied artificial intelligence (AI) to ultra-wide field-of-view images of the distant Universe captured by the Subaru Telescope, and have achieved a very high accuracy for finding and classifying spiral ...
Astronomy
Aug 11, 2020
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Wildlife translocations will have better results if they are led, or genuinely co-led, by Indigenous peoples.
Ecology
Aug 5, 2020
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Solar flares—violent explosions on the surface of the sun—can send blasts of radiation hurtling toward Earth. While the planet's magnetic field protects humans on the surface, powerful solar flares can disable satellites, ...
Space Exploration
Jul 31, 2020
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A new solar-powered animal tracker promises to transform the collection of environmental and behavioural data, greatly improving animal welfare.
Ecology
Jul 30, 2020
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A radical new method of imaging that harnesses artificial intelligence to turn time into visions of 3-D space could help cars, mobile devices and health monitors develop 360-degree awareness.
Optics & Photonics
Jul 30, 2020
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The twist has been taking the field of condensed matter physics by storm. No, not the 1960s dance craze made famous by Chubby Checker— the stunning discovery that two sheets of graphene, a flat honeycomb-shaped lattice ...
Nanomaterials
Jul 27, 2020
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Psyche, the NASA mission to explore a metal-rock asteroid of the same name, recently passed a crucial milestone that brings it closer to its August 2022 launch date. Now the mission is moving from planning and designing to ...
Space Exploration
Jul 7, 2020
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To understand America's response to the coronavirus pandemic, researchers started with data from more than 200 years ago—at the American frontier.
Political science
Jul 7, 2020
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704
Coconut oil production may be more damaging to the environment than palm oil, researchers say.
Environment
Jul 6, 2020
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35
Researchers have uncovered more information about the numbers and habits of killer whales in south Western Australian waters, with a Curtin University study providing the first baseline assessment of the species' occupancy ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 25, 2020
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