Brain-inspired electronic system could vastly reduce AI’s carbon footprint
Extremely energy-efficient artificial intelligence is now closer to reality after a study by UCL researchers found a way to improve the accuracy of a brain-inspired...
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Land use change leads to increased flooding in Indonesia
International team led by Göttingen University investigates effects on local water cycleCredit: Jennifer Merten, University of Göttingen While high greenhouse gas emissions and biodiversity loss...
Hubble maps giant halo around Andromeda Galaxy
Credit: NASA, ESA, and E. Wheatley (STScI) In a landmark study, scientists using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have mapped the immense envelope of gas, called...
Microbes working together multiply biomass conversion possibilities
Credit: M. Studer (BFH) With the race for renewable energy sources in full swing, plants offer one of the most promising candidates for replacing crude...
Student research team develops hybrid rocket engine
Credit: Department of Aerospace Engineering, The Grainger College of Engineering In a year defined by obstacles, a University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign student rocket team...
NASA sees Hurricane Laura’s nighttime landfall
Credit: Credit: NASA/Chris Cassidy Many NASA assets were used to provide forecasters with information to incorporate into their analysis of Hurricane Laura. Satellite imagery, photographs...
Artificial intelligence learns continental hydrology
The complex distribution of continental water masses in South America has been determined with a new Deep-Learning-Method using satellite dataCredit: Image: Irrgang et al. 2020,...
Single-use N95 respirators can be decontaminated and used again, study finds
Scientists hope new methods can mitigate the chronic shortage of personal protective equipmentCredit: CDC/Debora Cartagena N95 respirators, which are widely worn by health care workers...
Genomes published for major agricultural weeds
Credit: Steve Bowe, BASF URBANA, Ill. - Representing some of the most troublesome agricultural weeds, waterhemp, smooth pigweed, and Palmer amaranth impact crop production systems...
NIAID establishes centers for research in emerging infectious diseases
Global network to focus on spillover potentialCredit: NIAID The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), one of the National Institutes of Health, today...
Evidence of hibernation-like state in Antarctic animal
Researchers discover Fossil evidence of 'hibernation-like' state in tusks of 250-million-year-old Antarctic animalCredit: Crystal Shin Among the many winter survival strategies in the animal world,...
CSU’s Kyle Horton leads $1 million NSF project to study migratory birds and bats
Credit: Kyle Horton/Colorado State University A colony of more than one million Mexican free-tailed bats make their home under a bridge in Austin, Texas, each...
How sticklebacks dominate perch
Analysis reveals waves of stickleback domination along the Baltic coastCredit: Mårten Erlandsson, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences A research project on algal blooms along the...
Ocean acidification causing coral ‘osteoporosis’ on iconic reefs
Credit: Photo by Richard Brooks, Lightning Strike Media Productions, Palau. Scientists have long suspected that ocean acidification is affecting corals' ability to build their skeletons,...
South African wildlife management/conservation models do not protect carnivores equally
UMass Amherst population ecologist contributed statistical expertise to wildlife studyCredit: Gonçalo Curveira-Santos AMHERST, Mass. - In results released this week, an international team of wildlife...