In recent weeks, the Oakland Estuary has morphed from an innocuous playground for water sports into what the local boating community describes as a semi-lawless stretch roamed by marauding thieves …
India is gearing up for its first-ever mission to study the sun. The mission’s observatory, called Aditya-L1 (“Aditya” means “sun” in Sanskrit), has arrived at its launch site on the …
A team of computer scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, led by Emery Berger, recently unveiled a prize-winning Python profiler called Scalene. Programs written with Python are notoriously slow …
Credit: Advanced Materials (2023). DOI: 10.1002/adma.202300416 The word “fractals” might inspire images of psychedelic colors spiraling into infinity in a computer animation. An invisible, but powerful and useful, version of …
By David Brunat | Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain — Climate activists have spraypainted a superyacht, blocked private jets from taking off and plugged holes in golf courses this summer as …
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A new crew recently arrived at the International Space Station (ISS), ready to begin a six-month stint of life in orbit. During its stay, Crew-7 will work on scientific research, …
DENVER (KDVR) – Multiple videos captured a fireball in the sky above Colorado early Sunday morning, while dozens of others reported seeing the event. A fireball is an unusually bright …
A woman who underwent brain surgery for a host of medical complaints got far more than she bargained for when doctors pulled an eight-centimetre-long live worm from her brain. The …
A blood test given as early as the end of the first trimester of pregnancy could help identify patients at the highest risk of preeclampsia, a potentially life-threatening condition associated …
A team of researchers is designing novel systems to capture water vapour in the air and turn it into liquid. University of Waterloo professor Michael Tam and his PhD students …