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When AI Paints the Picture: The Microscopy Image Controversy Shaking Science
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More than half of the lakes around the world are loosing water
Posted on 26 June, 2023 by benyamin chahkandi
Summary: A recent study found that 53 percent of the greatest freshwater lakes on earth are in decline and are now retaining less water than they did thirty years ago. The study measured changes in water levels in roughly 2,000 of the largest lakes and reservoirs in the globe using satellite measurements spanning decades. It was discovered that human consumption, sedimentation, and climate change are to blame .
However, the lead author, former CIRES visiting fellow and current climate...
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...
Climate change, causing oceans to become more green
Posted on 16 July, 2023 by benyamin chahkandi
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More than half of the world's oceans have become greener over the past 20 years, likely due to global warming. This was determined by analyzing 20 years of data on ocean color from NASA's Aqua satellite.
The greening indicates increased phytoplankton and algae in the surface waters. Phytoplankton contain chlorophyll which makes the ocean appear greener.
The tropical and subtropical waters between 40°S and 40°N latitude changed the most in color. These areas...
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The Underground Hydrogen Rush: A Cheap Green Fuel or Just a Pipe Dream?
Posted on 20 September, 2026 by Mehrdad Fathi
For most of the past century, the idea that hydrogen gas could be sitting underground in commercially viable deposits simply did not register as a possibility worth entertaining. Geologists knew the Earth produces hydrogen constantly through reactions between iron-rich rock and water, and through the splitting of water molecules by radioactive decay. They also knew that microbes eat it, that geochemical reactions consume it, and that its molecules are small enough to slip through rock...
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15 March, 2024Today In History
Here are some interesting facts ih history happened on 3 October.
- The comet said to predict the death of Pope Urban IV is last seen
- Washington proclaims the 1st national Thanksgiving Day on Nov 26
- Lincoln designates last Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day
- Federal Income Tax is signed into law (at 1%)
- NFL (then American Pro Football Association) plays 1st games
- Iraq gains full independence from Britain
- Italy invades Ethiopia
- Launch of the 1st A-4/V-2 rocket to altitude of 53 miles
- With only 1 out to go Yank Floyd Beven gives up a double breaking his world series no hit bid it scored 2 runs & he lost the game.
- 1st telescope lens 200 inches in diameter completed
- NFL becomes 1st sport of the week
- 1st black lead (Ethel Waters) on TV - Beulah
- Bobby Thomson HR - The Giants win the pennant
- 1st video recording on magnetic tape LA Ca
- Father Knows Best premiers
- Mickey Mouse Club premiers
- Captain Kangaroo premieres Good Morning Captain!
- Yanks win 8-7 & end season on a 15 game win streak
- SF's White House dept store 1st to accept BankAmericard
- Dick Van Dyke Show premiers
- Wally Schirra in Sigma 7 launched into earth orbit
- Whitey Ford notches #232 to become Yankees winningest pitcher
- William Knight sets world speed record for fixed-wing craft of 4 534 MPH (Mach 6.72) in X-15
- Spaceflight 71-2 launched; 1st flexible substrate photovoltaic flown
- Space shuttle Atlantis makes all-military maiden flight