Classifying ancient pottery has always depended on the trained judgment of an archaeologist. Identifying the subtle differences between piece types takes years of experience, and two experts will not always agree. Now, a team including…
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AI learns to read ancient Japanese pottery with 93% accuracy
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Web application turns indoor green walls into smart, living systems breathing life into buildings
Step into a modern office tower or hospital, and the air you breathe is often carefully engineered, filtered, circulated, and cooled at a high energy cost. Now imagine those same spaces quietly breathing on their own, supported by living walls of…
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New Satellite Images Reveal Antarctica’s Ice Changing Color…It’s Turning Green
In early March, satellite images from the European Space Agency’s Copernicus program revealed something unexpected in Antarctica: green ice. This strange sight immediately caught the attention of scientists, who were quick to investigate….
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Space Screws Up Sperm’s Ability to Navigate Properly
Humans may be living on the moon sooner than we’d thought. Earlier this week, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman announced an advanced timeline for the agency’s plans to return to the moon and establish a permanent base there. If the plans come…
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Study finds 40% of European gas stoves leak cancer-causing benzene while turned off
Benzene, a compound linked with leukemia and other blood cancers, is leaking from gas stoves in Europe, a new study finds. According to the World Health Organization, there is no safe level of exposure to benzene, a compound that occurs naturally…
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Arctic Winter Sea Ice Ties Record Low, NASA, NSIDC Scientists Find
For the second consecutive year, winter sea ice in the Arctic reached a level that matches the lowest peak observed since satellite monitoring began in 1979. On March 15, Arctic sea ice extent reached 5.52 million square miles (14.29 million…
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I tried Microsoft OneDrive’s AI restyle feature, and now I know what I would look like as a crochet doll
I wouldn’t have predicted as a kid that I’d someday employ powerful AI to create a tiny yarn doppelganger with suspiciously soulful button eyes, but Microsoft is encouraging exactly that. The company’s new AI Restyle feature within its OneDrive…
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NASA’s IXPE Gets Fresh Look at Supernova
NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) mission has taken a new observation of a supernova, RCW 86, seen here in an image released on March 24, 2026. This observation helps fill in a fuller picture of what other telescopes have…
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AI Uses Drone Images to Predict Ground-Level Disaster Damage
How can AI be used to assess past earthquake damage? This is what a recent study published in the International Journal of Remote Sensing hopes to address as a team of scientists investigated how a new AI…
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