[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 …
Read More »The Saturn / Jupiter conjunction will occur at the winter solstice
[ad_1] Once every 20 years, Jupiter and Saturn almost intersect in the sky and this year the two largest planets in the solar system intersect during the winter solstice. According to EarthSky, the two planets will be only 0.1 degrees apart at their closest point on December 21st. Being so …
Read More »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 …
Read More »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 …
Read More »China launches Chang’e-5 mission to bring rocks back from the moon | China
[ad_1] China has launched a robotic spaceship to bring rocks back from the moon, a country’s first such attempt since the 1970s. The Long March-5, China’s largest carrier rocket, took off Tuesday at 4.30am Beijing time from the Wenchang Space Launch Center on Hainan Island, carrying the Chang’e-5 probe. The …
Read More »Fossils presumed to be the world’s first animals revealed as algae – UPI News
[ad_1] The fossils are presumed to be the first animals in the world to be revealed as algaeUPI News Complex life evolved on Earth 100 million years AFTER previously thought, scientists sayDaily mail View full coverage on Google News [ad_2] Source link
Read More »See the largest Earth observation satellite ever launched into space
[ad_1] Trip Saturday of the Sentinel-6 satellite Michael Freilich has begun. The largest Earth observation satellite took off aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 12:17 pm Eastern from Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. In a few months, the satellite will begin collecting data …
Read More »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 …
Read More »The Chinese spacecraft sets out to search for the sample on the Moon
[ad_1] “This will tell us about the Moon’s magmatic and thermal history over time, and from this we can begin to answer broader questions about when volcanism and magmatism was occurring on all planets in the inner Solar System and why the Moon may have run out of energy to …
Read More »The Chinese spacecraft sets off on a sample search on the Moon
[ad_1] “This will tell us about the Moon’s magmatic and thermal history over time, and from this we can begin to answer broader questions about when volcanism and magmatism were occurring on all planets in the inner Solar System and why the Moon could have run out. of energy to …
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