Antarctic volcano may hold clues to life on Mars

The volcano has been active for thousands of years, erupting most recently in 1967, 1969 and 1970, devastating British and Chilean bases and forcing the evacuation of an Argentine base.…

First in-depth survey on the topic of deep transfer learning for intelligent vehicle perception

Illustration of challenges and applications of intelligent vehicle perception. Transfer learning (TL) methods can be applied to reduce the domain gaps by sensor difference, data difference, and model difference. Credit:…

Progress on chip-based spontaneous four-wave mixing quantum light sources

Asteroid making its closest approach to Earth this week

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain On 4 February, asteroid 2011 MD will make its closest approach to the Earth. Though it will not be visible with the naked eye, the asteroid…

Can ocean energy power carbon removal?

The team examined many marine carbon management methods, including marine carbon capture, which separates carbon dioxide from the air or ocean; sequestration, which permanently stores that captured carbon; and removal,…

New UK report reveals autism assessment and support crisis

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A report published today (Friday 2 February) by the Child of the North initiative—led by the N8 Research Partnership and former Children’s Commissioner Anne Longfield’s new…

Ariane 6 test model cryogenic system disconnection

Credit: European Space Agency Teams from ESA, France’s space agency CNES and ArianeGroup successfully completed the disconnection and retraction of the Ariane 6 cryogenic systems on 30 January 2024. These…

A physical qubit with built-in error correction

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain There has been significant progress in the field of quantum computing. Big global players, such as Google and IBM, are already offering cloud-based quantum computing services.…

Leveraging collaboration, transparency, and inclusion to advance macrosystems biology” – Functional Ecologists

Functional Ecology, Journal of Animal Ecology, Journal of Ecology, Methods in Ecology and Evolution and People and Nature are seeking proposals for a cross-journal Special Feature on “Large Scale, Open…

India’s solar industry wants to grow, but it has to face China first

To compete with China, India wants to make solar panels from scratch. But dependence on its rival for key components make it a tough task India’s solar industry doesn’t only…