Rogue waves are freakishly large ridges of water known for rising out of the blue to ambush hapless ships and beachgoers. But a new artificial intelligence model can predict most of these surprising swells up to five minutes in…
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Math program promotes global community for at-risk Ukrainian high schoolers | MIT News
When Sophia Breslavets first heard about Yulia’s Dream, the MIT Department of Mathematics’ Program for Research in Mathematics, Engineering, and Science (PRIMES) for Ukrainian students, Russia had just invaded her…
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Sulfur was key to the first water on Earth
A chemical element that’s not even in H2O — sulfur — is the reason Earth first got its water, a new study finds, bolstering a similar claim made a year ago. The discovery means our planet was born with all it needed to create its…
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Anglo-Saxon cemetery discovered in Malmesbury
Archaeologists have discovered an Anglo-Saxon cemetery in the grounds of the Old Bell Hotel in Malmesbury, England.
The Old Bell Hotel is located adjacent to Malmesbury Abbey, a former Benedictine abbey dedicated to Saint Peter and Saint Paul.
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Neural networks made of light
Scientists propose a new way of implementing a neural network with an optical system which could make machine learning more sustainable in the future. The researchers at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light have published their new…
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Sticking a Pin in Cancer – Chemistry | Weizmann Wonder Wander
“Who will watch the watchers?” asked Roman poet Juvenal way back in the first century C.E. Nature has been addressing that very question for much, much longer. The human body contains proteins that are designed to protect us from cancerous…
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Freeze-drying turned a woolly mammoth’s DNA into 3-D ‘chromoglass’
Beef jerky and some woolly mammoths have at least one thing in common: Drying turns their DNA into super-tough glass.
This glassy DNA is so stable that it preserved the three-dimensional structure of chromosomes in one woolly mammoth…
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Research reveals the most complete dinosaur discovered in the UK in a Century
Newswise — The most complete dinosaur discovered in this country in the last 100 years, with a pubic hip bone the size of a ‘dinner plate’, has been described in a new paper published today.
The specimen,…
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Life Underground Suited New Dinosaur Fine
Newswise — The age of dinosaurs wasn’t conducted solely above ground. A newly discovered ancestor of Thescelosaurus shows evidence that these animals spent at least part of their time in underground burrows. The…
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Lost world discovered beneath Antarctic ice
A large-scale transcontinental river system from the Eocene era, dating back 44 to 34 million years ago, has been discovered beneath the Antarctic ice.
The results of a study, published in the journal Science Advances, documents a geochronological…
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