Whenever I think about the largest things in the world, I start with Australia's Big Pineapple, but then come back to the "absolute unit" meme. I might be terminally online, sure, but there's nothing… [+2325 chars]
The Sun is a great starting point for modeling the many physical processes in stellar interiors. However, the results of helioseismology, which provide information on the nature of the Sun’s interior… [+3088 chars]
ByUniversity of ManchesterMay 31, 2022 Artist impression of the 76s pulsar (in magenta) compared to other more rapidly spinning sources. Credit: Danielle Futselaar An international team of astronom… [+7501 chars]
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Skoltech researchers are forecasting that by 204060, Sosnowsky's hogweed will likely exploit global warming to expand its habitat, threatening to infest almost the entire European part of Russia. Pub… [+3553 chars]
Training of ResNet-50 A total of 5530796 images were captured in Tromsø from 2011 to 2021 season, of which 87275 (1.6% of the data) were manually labeled and then used for the training and evaluatio… [+16008 chars]
A Los Angeles math teacher gets students engaged with connections to science and exploring the human side of math, such as how leaders inspire change in their communities. Katherine Risbrough has be… [+7363 chars]
NASA's Ingenuity helicopter is still pushing boundaries long after its first Mars liftoff. As CNETnotes, the space agency has shared video of Ingenuity's milestone 25th flight on April 8th, when it b… [+1018 chars]
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been in space for about six months, which is just a fraction of the time NASA spent designing and building it. All that effort is about to pay off, though. W… [+2659 chars]
Chemical reactions that are driven by light offer a powerful tool for chemists who are designing new ways to manufacture pharmaceuticals and other useful compounds. Harnessing this light energy requi… [+5425 chars]
Astrophysicists have long sought to detect dark matter, the elusive, invisible force that does not reflect or emit light but accounts for a vast amount of all the matter — roughly 85 percent accordin… [+3139 chars]
Nonlinear optics is an important research direction with various applications in laser manufacturing, nanostructures' fabrication, sensor design, optoelectronics, biophotonics, and quantum optics, et… [+5407 chars]