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  • AI can use tourist photos to help track Antarctica’s penguins


    AI can use tourist photos to help track Antarctica’s penguins

    AI can use tourist photos to help track Antarctica’s penguins

    This transformation of ground photos into a bird’s-eye view allows researchers to track how penguin colonies change in location and population size over time – which could prove especially helpful in remote regions of the world where aerial drone or aircraft surveys are done infrequently.


    Using AI, historians track how astronomy ideas spread in the 16th century

    Using AI, historians track how astronomy ideas spread in the 16th century

    “When you deal with the scientific revolution, the triumph of the Copernican worldview, we know the big names,” says computational scientist Jürgen Renn of the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology in Jena, Germany, who was not involved in the new work.


    Lasers reveal Maya city, including thousands of structures, hidden in Mexico

    Lasers reveal Maya city, including thousands of structures, hidden in Mexico

    ” Consistently, everywhere that this type of job is done, there’s more settlement [found],” Thomas Fort, an archaeologist at the College of Texas at Austin that was not associated with the research study, told Live Scientific research. “It all gives even more pieces for this massive problem, and every problem piece matters.” The following action...


    Scientists Say: Dialect

    Scientists Say: Dialect

    It also can refer just to England and Wales, the territories conquered by the ancient Romans who named the land Britannia.


    How insects can help catch rhino poachers

    How insects can help catch rhino poachers

    Their analysis of the cases, which occurred between 2014 and 2021, involved tallying the various insect species present at each stage of decomposition, comparing the minimum postmortem interval estimates and factoring in the average ambient temperature during each time period.


    Our brains can understand written sentences in the ‘blink of an eye,’ study reveals

    Our brains can understand written sentences in the ‘blink of an eye,’ study reveals

    Participants performed their best when the sentences contained a subject, verb and object, with the fastest brain activity being seen for phrases such as "nurses clean wounds," compared to noun lists like "hearts lungs livers."


    Scientists have dated the moon’s oldest, and largest, impact site

    Scientists have dated the moon’s oldest, and largest, impact site

    Get in touch with me with news and uses from various other Future brandsReceive email from us in behalf of our trusted partners or sponsorsBy sending your details you consent to the Terms & Problems and Personal privacy Plan and are aged 16 or over. You don’t require a telescope to see that the moon...


    Tech companies want small nuclear reactors. Here’s how they’d work

    Tech companies want small nuclear reactors. Here’s how they’d work

    Some small modular reactor designs make use of advanced types of fuel, such as TRISO, tiny particles of uranium that are surrounded by multiple layers of encapsulation (shown).Idaho National Laboratory


    The U.S. empire was built on bird dung

    The U.S. empire was built on bird dung

    That act gave the country “permission” to claim sovereignty over any allegedly uninhabited or unclaimed territory to secure access to guano, a prized fertilizer for American tobacco, cotton and wheat fields.


    Solving Stephen Hawking’s black hole paradox has raised new mysteries

    Solving Stephen Hawking’s black hole paradox has raised new mysteries

    Hawking’s calculations showed that the radiation should be random, offering no way to predict what types of particles will emerge.


    All your questions about Marburg virus answered

    All your questions about Marburg virus answered

    Genetic sequencing of cases in Rwanda has revealed that the virus jumped from an animal, like an Egyptian fruit bat or an African green monkey, to a person just once in the ongoing outbreak, the country’s health minister tweeted on 20 October.


    The ‘Does It Fly?’ podcast separates fact from science fiction

    The ‘Does It Fly?’ podcast separates fact from science fiction

    That’s the premise — and tone — of the entertaining podcast Does It Fly?, hosted by astrophysicist and “mad scientist” (his words) Hakeem Oluseyi and actress, writer and “pop culture expert” Tamara Krinsky.


    Fresh insights into how we doze off may help tackle sleep conditions

    Fresh insights into how we doze off may help tackle sleep conditions

    A better understanding of the SOP could lead to new treatments for these sleep conditions, while also helping anyone who wants to be more alert or creative – so “pretty much everybody”, says Delphine Oudiette, a cognitive neuroscientist at Sorbonne University in Paris, France.


    Saving Mexico’s fir forests could help monarch butterflies

    Saving Mexico’s fir forests could help monarch butterflies

    Local foresters from the Indigenous community in Calimaya planted oyamel fir seedlings on the Nevado de Toluca volcano in central Mexico as part of an experiment to see if the trees crucial to monarch butterflies’ survival can thrive in new locations.


    All the action from New Scientist Live – in photographs

    All the action from New Scientist Live – in photographs

    The speakers included Nobel prizewinner Venki Ramakrishnan on why we die, TV anthropologist Alice Roberts on ancient epidemics, psychologist Kimberley Wilson on eating for better brain health and statistician David Spiegelhalter on how chance rules our lives.


    Listen to haunting sounds of Earth’s magnetic field flipping 41,000 years ago in eerie new animation

    Listen to haunting sounds of Earth’s magnetic field flipping 41,000 years ago in eerie new animation

    Evidence of this geomagnetic excursion, known as the Laschamp event, can be found in ancient lava flows, which contain unusually high ratios of certain isotopes caused by increased levels of cosmic rays.


    The free-energy principle: Can one idea explain why everything exists?

    The free-energy principle: Can one idea explain why everything exists?

    Then the FEP outgrew the brain, being put forward as a definition of life and, inevitably, as the basis for a new kind of artificial intelligence that can reason.


    Why didn’t the Vikings colonize North America?

    Why didn’t the Vikings colonize North America?

    "Greenland was weeks away in terms of getting goods to market [in Europe], which made for a difficult trade network operation," Kevin McAleese, a curator at Rooms Provincial Museum in St John's in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, told Live Science in an email.


    Readers are curious about dark matter, plastics’ effects on pollination and Percy’s selfies

    Readers are curious about dark matter, plastics’ effects on pollination and Percy’s selfies

    The electrostatically charged wings of moths and butterflies could draw pollen out of nearby flowers without the insects needing to land on the blooms, Anna Gibbs reported in “Pollination via static electricity” (SN: 8/24/24, p. 13).


    Smartmi Air Purifier E1 review

    Smartmi Air Purifier E1 review

    Lastly, we assessed its air-cleaning performance by conducting a series of tests using the Perfect Prime air particle monitor, a device capable of detecting airborne pollutants as small as 0.3 microns.


    Seven newly named frog species make whistles that sound like Star Trek

    Seven newly named frog species make whistles that sound like Star Trek

    Male frogs use their bird-like calls to attract females, and as these newly named species live close to streams, Scherz thinks they evolved their high-pitched whistles to help their songs stand out from the din of flowing water.


    Can furry pets get H5N1 bird flu and spread it to us?

    Can furry pets get H5N1 bird flu and spread it to us?

    A large team of university researchers from Iowa, Texas and Kansas shared this conclusion in the July issue of Emerging Infectious Diseases.


    Runaway stars could influence the cosmos far past their home galaxies

    Runaway stars could influence the cosmos far past their home galaxies

    But in a wider search, Stoop found an astonishing 55 stars had fled at speeds faster than roughly 100,000 kilometers per hour in the past 3 million years.


    Let’s learn about the Nobel Prize

    Let’s learn about the Nobel Prize

    In his will, Nobel left much of his fortune to create prizes to those who have done their best for humanity in the fields of physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature and peace.


    New electrical stitches use muscle movement to speed up healing

    New electrical stitches use muscle movement to speed up healing

    Researchers already knew that pumping electricity through stitches could speed healing, but previous technologies relied on bulky external batteries.


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    Best DSLR ever made now as cheap as July Prime Day — save $800

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    Astronauts could one day end up eating asteroids

    Astronauts could one day end up eating asteroids

    A fully operational asteroid food project would require an “industrial-sized super machine” in space, he says, but the researchers hope to begin testing the idea on a smaller scale in the coming year, starting off with coal and then moving to meteorites that have fallen to Earth, which they are currently working on a proposal for.


    Do chickens blush? And if they do, what makes them blush the most?

    Do chickens blush? And if they do, what makes them blush the most?

    Electronic video processing extracted “the mean red (R), blue (B), and green (G) values for each bare skin region of the hen face (comb, cheek, ear lobe and wattle)”.


    Zap, zap, zap! Our bodies are electric

    Zap, zap, zap! Our bodies are electric

    Although these feelings can be triggered by events, such as the death of a loved one or the move to a new city, that isn’t typically considered an “illness” — unless the symptoms are prolonged and harm an individual’s ability to perform normal daily tasks (such as working, sleeping or interacting with others).


    ‘Night Magic’ invites you to celebrate the living wonders of the dark

    ‘Night Magic’ invites you to celebrate the living wonders of the dark

    Henion’s night excursions continue with appearances from glowworms, which are luminous fly larvae that shine blue; colorful moths, major pollinators that are experiencing troubling population declines; and foxfire, the catchall term for bioluminescent fungi glowing on forest floors.


    Can you see Earth’s new ‘minimoon’ with the naked eye?

    Can you see Earth’s new ‘minimoon’ with the naked eye?

    Given the relatively easy trip to a minimoon from Earth, some researchers have proposed using these transient satellites as "stepping stones" for future missions to mine asteroids or explore deeper into our solar system.