Using data from ESA’s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter and NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, planetary scientists have created the 1:30000 scale geological map of Oxia Planum, the landing site for ESA’s ExoMars Rosalind Franklin rover…
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A Hundred Million Suns: The Most Complete Portrait of a Supernova – Space & Physics | Weizmann Wonder Wander
Humankind has long turned to the skies in search of answers. Accounts of supernovae – exploding stars – go back thousands of years, but while we know today that these events create the building blocks of life itself, the conditions that cause…
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Study analyses organic material from 3.5 billion-year-old biomass
Researchers from the University of Göttingen are using high resolution techniques to trace the origin and composition of a 3.5 billion-year-old biomass.
The Pilbara Craton in Western Australia is one of the few places on earth where traces of the…
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Modeling Extremely Large Images with xT – The Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Blog
As computer vision researchers, we believe that every pixel can tell a story. However, there seems to be a writer’s block settling into the field when it comes to dealing with large images. Large images are no longer…
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Physicists Identify First Unconventional Superconductor with Composition Also Found in Nature
Solid state chemistry has produced a plethora of materials with properties not found in nature. For example, high-temperature superconductivity in copper-oxide compounds called cuprates is drastically different from the superconductivity of…
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2024 BAIR Graduate Directory – The Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Blog
Every year, the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR) Lab graduates some of the most talented and innovative minds in artificial intelligence and machine learning. Our Ph.D. graduates have each expanded the frontiers of…
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Scientists CT scanned thousands of natural history specimens, which you can access for free
BYLINE: Jerald Pinson
Newswise — Natural history museums have entered a new stage of scientific discovery and accessibility with the completion of openVertebrate (oVert), a…
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Study finds evidence of Mesoamericans drinking tobacco during healing rituals
A new study, published in the journal Antiquity, has found traces of nicotine in ceramic vessels discovered at the ancient city of Cotzumalhuapa.
Cotzumalhuapa was a Maya polity located near the town of Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa in southern…
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Climate change threatens thousands of Native American and colonial sites in coastal Georgia
Thousands of Native American and colonial sites in Georgia are under threat from increasing storm surges caused by climate change, according to a new study published in the journal PLOS One.
The study has identified 4,200 sites at risk of flooding…
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Four-peat: MIT students take first place in the 84th Putnam Math Competition | MIT News
For the fourth time in the history of the annual William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition, and for the fourth year in a row, all five of the top spots in the contest, known as Putnam Fellows, came from a single…
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