Survival Stuff #2
The handheld gadget spots drought stress before crops become visibly wilted, like these parched pumpkin plants. Depositphotos – By Ben Coxworth 2024 Oct 09 – It’s always best if farmers can detect drought stress before crop plants become wilted, weakened and lower-yielding. An experimental …
Rendering of what a watery Mars may have looked like. NASA – By David Szondy 2024 Oct 08 – Data from NASA’s Curiosity rover collected on Mars is shedding new light on how the Red Planet became uninhabitable in the distant past due to …
The hole-digging, seed-bomb-depositing, Plantolin pangolin-inspired robot. University of Surrey – By Ben Coxworth 2024 Oct 05 – Foraging pangolins already dig in the dirt, so why not get them planting trees while they’re at it? Well, training them would be pretty hard, which is …
The shape, color and texture of your tongue can offer valuable insights into your wellbeing, experts say. Generally speaking, a tongue’s color will fall somewhere between a pale pink and dark red, with a thin, white-ish layer of keratin on top. Photograph: 4FR/Getty …
An artist’s impression of the NASA research plane flying over thunderstorm systems to detect gamma ray emissions. NASA/ALOFT team – By Michael Irving 2024 Oct 03 – Thor and the Hulk may be more closely related than we thought. Thunderstorms are known to produce …
An illustration of K’awiil, the Maya god of storm, on pottery. K2970 from the Justin Kerr Maya archive, Dumbarton Oaks, Trustees for Harvard University, Washington, D.C., CC BY-SA – By James L. Fitzsimmons, Professor of Anthropology, Middlebury Published: 2024 Oct 03 – The ancient …
This shows how the I-Xray software works, from capturing the image to aggregating the data. AnhPhu Nguyen – By Joe Salas 2024 Oct 02 – In what might be described as a real-life Black Mirror episode, a Harvard student uses facial recognition with $379 …
Steam billows from two cooling towers serving Unit 1 of the Three Mile Island nuclear plant in 2005. AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster – By Todd Allen, Professor of Nuclear Engineering & Radiological Sciences, University of Michigan Published: 2024 Sep 27 – Constellation, an energy …
A patient has been functionally cured of type 1 diabetes with a new stem cell therapy. Depositphotos – By Michael Irving 2024 Sep 30 – A patient with type 1 diabetes has been functionally cured of the disease, requiring no insulin doses for over …
Today’s AI models, pictured here using generative tools, are infants – and their understanding of truth is being held back by the human thinking and language they’re trained on. – By Loz Blain 2024 Sep 29 – AIs have a big problem with truth and …
