Artificial intelligence (AI) is at an inflection point in the field of healthcare. 50 years of algorithm and software development have produced some powerful methods for extracting patterns from big data.For example,…
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1971 How locusts control yaw “Like an airplane, insects can roll around their longitudinal axis, pitch around a horizontal axis, or yaw around a vertical axis. Locusts seem to have two different…
Boarding schools in Canada are scary
This Recent discovery The more than 1,300 unmarked graves at the site of four former boarding schools in western Canada shocked and frightened Canadians. The families and lives of the aborigines have…
Infrastructure deals reduce climate spending
Billions of dollars in climate spending have been cut from the bipartisan infrastructure agreement. Compared with the bipartisan framework announced by the senator and the White House in June, the infrastructure agreement…
Research shows that immediate climate emergency action is taken to prevent millions of deaths
Every metric ton of carbon dioxide emitted by humans comes at a price-not only the economic loss caused by floods, heat waves and droughts, but also the cost of human life.Significantly reduce…
Why do variants such as Delta dominate?
If researchers predict which coronavirus variant will sweep the world, the Delta variant will not be their first guess.However, since its first appearance in India in December 2020, this highly infectious variant…
“Hydrogen Olympics” lit the torch for the future of clean fuels
Before the postponement to this year, the Tokyo 2020 Olympics was called the “Hydrogen Olympics” by some people because of the plan to use clean burning gas to power most of the…
COVID, fast, episode 12: cover up again and why people refuse to shoot
Tanya Lewis: Hi, welcome to COVID, fast, Scientific american Podcast series! Josh Fischman: This is your quick update on the COVID pandemic. We take you quickly to understand the science behind the…
Electric school buses reduce pollution, but new infrastructure deals cut funding
Bobby Monacella is tired of sending two children on a bus filled with diesel fumes to school. The pollution levels inside these iconic yellow buses may be 10 times higher than outside….
How remote indigenous communities are fighting the pandemic
While making an intermittent phone call to the remote Nicobar Islands, I told Ayesha Majid, the indigenous leader, that my friends in Delhi fell like flies. The terrible second wave of COVID-19…