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AI discovers flora's hidden characteristics to aid save species
Posted on 4 July, 2023 by benyamin chahkandi
Summary:To research and mitigate the effects of climate change on flora, scientists from UNSW and the Sydney Botanic Gardens have trained AI to access data from millions of plant specimens maintained in herbaria around the world.
Associate Professor Will Cornwell, the study's principal author, adds that herbarium collections are incredible "time capsules of plant specimens." It's no longer feasible to go through items manually because the National Herbarium of New South Wales alone...
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15 March, 2024Today In History
Here are some interesting facts ih history happened on 27 October.
- Michael Servetus burned at the stake for heresy in Geneva Switz.
- Federalist letters start appearing in NY newspapers.
- Treaty of San Lorenzo provides free navigation of Mississippi
- US annexes West Florida from Spain.
- RH Macy & Co opens 1st store NYC Gross receipts $1106
- Boss Tweed (William Macy Tweed) Democratic leader of Tammany Hall arrested after NY Times exposed his corruption
- Theodore Roosevelt marries Alice Lee on his 22nd birthday.
- 1st Pali Road completed in Hawaii (winds so strong streams flow UP!)
- NY opens 1st section of its subway system.
- DuPont announces that its new synthetic fiber will be called 'nylon'
- You Bet Your Life with Groucho Marx premieres on ABC radio.
- Walt Disney's 1st TV show Disneyland premiers on ABC.
- 1st Saturn Made a unmanned flight test
- St. Vincent & the Grenadines gains associated status with Britain
- Rep of Congo becomes Zaire.
- Golden Gate Natl Recreation Area created
- 1st time Islanders beat the Rangers - 3-2
- Begin & Sadat with the Nobel Peace prize
- Islanders score 2 goals within 6 seconds 3 goals within 44 seconds
- Dave Gryllis sets world bicycle speed record of 94.37 kph.