Researchers at Rice University's Brown School of Engineering are using data gathered before a deadly 2017 landslide in Greenland to show how deep learning may someday help predict seismic events like earthquakes and volcanic ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 25, 2020
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Next time you visit your hairdresser spare a thought for the pigeons.
Ecology
Nov 13, 2019
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What is and is not possible for natural evolution may be explained using models and calculations from theoretical physics, say researchers in Japan.
General Physics
May 29, 2020
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Residents of the German town of Mayen stood stunned and helpless on Thursday as the worst flooding in years submerged their homes and sent torrents flowing down the streets.
Environment
Jul 15, 2021
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Theoretical physicists propose to use negative interference to control heat flow in quantum devices. Their study has been published in Physical Review Letters.
Quantum Physics
Feb 9, 2018
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Noise levels in the world's oceans are on the rise, but little is known about its impact on marine mammals like dolphins that rely on sound for communication. Researchers from the University of Maryland Center for Environmental ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 24, 2018
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A group of researchers working with data from the Borexino detector at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso in Italy, has shown that it is possible to measure solar neutrinos with both directional and energy sensitivity. ...
Low frequency noise (500 Hertz and lower), which could stem from various sources such as construction machineries and aircrafts, is a form of environmental noise problem in urban environments. Such noise transmits over long ...
Engineering
May 21, 2019
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There are more than 5,000 confirmed exoplanets in our galaxy. That number is going to rise significantly in the next decade. The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has already cataloged more than 4,000 candidate ...
Astronomy
Aug 25, 2023
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Pulsed laser scanning lidar is a core technology for autonomous driving and robotic mobility. Herein, a directional light pulse is backscattered by a reflective object and the elapsed time between emission and detection of ...
Optics & Photonics
Jul 20, 2023
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