In spring, consumers in the United States found themselves having to hunt for something that had previously been exceedingly easy to find: eggs. Some supermarkets limited customers to a single carton…
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Vulcan version 4.0 high-resolution annual carbon dioxide emissions in the U.S. for the 2010–2022 time period
The study domain is the United States, the fourth-largest country in the world (covering approximately 9.8 million square kilometers) with a population of over 333 million people as of 2022. The FFCO2 emission estimates presented here are Scope 1…
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AgriVision: A Benchmark Dataset for Advancing Real-World Robotic Vision in Densely Fruited Blueberry Crop
Ghazal, S., Munir, A. & Qureshi, W. S. Computer vision in smart agriculture and precision farming: Techniques and applications. Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture (2024).
Lochan, K. et al. Advancements in precision spraying of agricultural…
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Climate-crop models to support opportunity crop adaptation in Africa
Introduction to the SIMPLE model
The SIMPLE model32 is based on one of the most widely used crop models – DSSAT, retaining the key hydrobiological components to crop growth while simplifying the computational process. Compared to many other crop…
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Multi-annual spectral data of Chardonnay grapevine leaves presenting yellows diseases and confounding symptoms
Preprocessing Techniques for Spectral Data Analysis
Preprocessing spectral data is often essential for the analysis of infrared spectra. By minimizing the influence of external factors such as noise and scatter effects, preprocessing enhances the…
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Could tracking animals’ health help to avert the next pandemic?
Dairy cattle throughout the United States have been infected with the H5N1 virus.Credit: MediaMedium/Alamy
In the southwestern United States in the early weeks of 2024, a large-animal veterinarian…
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Operando X-ray imaging reveals size-dependent evolution of cobalt oxide thermochemical material during thermal redox cycles
TGA results
To investigate the reversibility and kinetics of the conversion between Co3O4 and CoO, the redox behaviors of Co3O4 micro and nano particles were analyzed by TGA in one and five thermal redox cycles between 800 °C and 900 °C. The…
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1.5-Million-Year-Old Fossil Reveals New Details about Homo erectus
Paleoanthropologists have examined and reconstructed DAN5, a 1.5-million-year-old fossilized skull of early Homo erectus found in Gona in the Afar region of Ethiopia.
This is an artist’s reconstruction of Homo erectus. Image credit: Yale…
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Remarkable Fossil from South Africa May Be New Species of Australopithecus: Study
New research led by scientists from the University of Cambridge and Latrobe University challenges the classification of the Little Foot fossil as Australopithecus prometheus.
The Little Foot fossil in the Sterkfontein cave, central South…
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How pointing fingers shape what we see in old master paintings
One of the most common human gestures, the pointing finger, appears frequently in Old Master paintings as a guiding cue. However, its influence on viewers’ gaze has never been systematically investigated. Researchers in experimental art history…
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