On ten thousand to million years time scales, climate dynamics on the Earth’s surface are driven by both external and internal processes. Earth`s interior provides heat from radioactive decay and chemical compounds by volcanic degassing, such as…
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Medical AI tools are growing, but are they being tested properly?
Artificial intelligence algorithms are being built into almost all aspects of health care. They’re integrated into breast cancer screenings, clinical note-taking, health insurance management and even phone and computer apps to create
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Security veins: Advanced biometric authentication through AI and infrared
Hyperspectral imaging is a technology that detects slight differences in color to pinpoint the characteristics and conditions of an object. While a normal camera creates images using red, green, and blue, a hyperspectral camera can obtain over…
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Developing the inherent functionality of highly pure porous organic polymers
A group of researchers from Tohoku University developed a method for synthesizing a special type of polymer that has applications for reducing greenhouse gas emissions — a major concern amidst a period of rapid climate change.
Porous organic…
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Robot Videos: Atlas in the Lab, Unitree Kung Fu, and More
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.
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A Novel Parkinson’s Risk Gene is Identified
Scientists have identified a gene that can significantly increase the risk of Parkinson’s disease. Although most of us generally carry the same genes, there may be small variations in the sequences of those…
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Rare Earths Reality: Ukraine’s Nonexistent Deposits
When a seemingly routine Oval Office press conference degenerated into a shouting match on 28 February, the world looked on in astonishment. That is, except for actual experts in rare earths and other critical materials, who understood all along…
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Dolphins and humans team up to catch fish in Brazil
Many hands make light work. Or, in the case of cooperative interspecies foraging in southern Brazil, flippers and hands catch more fish together.
Dolphins and humans have hunted mullet together in Laguna, Brazil, for generations,…
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Quick chemistry crossword #076
You’ll need a bit more than ‘Chemistry 101’ to solve this quick chemistry crossword puzzle!
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Chemistry wordoku #084 | Puzzle
Solve this ‘wordoku’ in the same way as a sudoku with letters instead of numbers (each of the nine letters in each row, column and nine-square cell). Once solved, one of the overall diagonals can be rearranged into the name of a chemical…
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