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Closed laboratory? Go to the kitchen – ScienceDaily

[ad_1] Mechanical engineer Roberto Zenit spent the summer of 2019 trying to solve a problem that now plagues science departments around the world: how can practical fluid dynamics experiments, usually performed in well-stocked laboratory classrooms, be moved out of the campus? After the pandemic, leading researchers like Zenit have found …

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Monitoring and fighting fires on land and beyond

[ad_1] Mechanical engineer Michael Gollner and his graduate student, Sriram Bharath Hariharan, of the University of California, Berkeley, recently visited NASA’s John H. Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio. There, they dropped burning objects into a deep pit and studied how fire vortices form in microgravity conditions. The Glenn Center …

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Misinformation or Artifact: A New Way of Thinking About Machine Learning: Researcher considers when – and if – we should consider AI a failure –

[ad_1] Deep neural networks, multilayered systems built to process images and other data through the use of mathematical models, are a cornerstone of artificial intelligence. They are capable of seemingly sophisticated results, but they can also be fooled in ways ranging from relatively harmless – misidentifying one animal as another …

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Researchers identify the genetics behind deadly oat blight

[ad_1] ITHACA, NY – A multi-institution team co-led by a Cornell University researcher has identified the genetic mechanisms that enable the production of a deadly toxin called Victorin – the causative agent of oat blight, a disease that wiped out oat crops in the United States in the 1940s. Victoria …

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