Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain SMU Associate Professor Christoph Treude examines the foundations for studies on open-source software and protestware. “Software developers don’t develop everything from scratch,” he says. “Just like…
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Researchers introduce biomineralization as a sustainable strategy against microbial corrosion in marine concrete
SEM and EDX images of the surface of the concrete with submerged inoculation: (a) MIC, (b) BCCI (F-3), and (c) CC; and with tidal inoculation: (d) MIC, (e) BCCI (T-3),…
Researchers look to the past to improve sustainability
Rammed earth technology, where waste products such as fly ash, are used as sustainable building materials can also be used to make decorative feature walls like this one at UBC…
‘Hexaplex’ vaccine aims to boost flu protection
Graphical Abstract. Credit: Cell Reports Medicine (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.xcrm.2024.101433 Recombinant protein vaccines, like the Novavax vaccine used to fight COVID-19, offer several advantages over conventional vaccines. They’re easy to produce…
How we could snoop on extraterrestrial communications networks
A 3-pulsar navigation system for an ET civilization. Credit: Ross Davis (2022) The conditions for life throughout the universe are so plentiful that it seems reasonable to presume there must…
Ancient trees’ gnarled, twisted shapes provide irreplaceable habitats
Earth’s oldest, knotted and scarred pine trees are a boon for forest life. These old mountain pines (Pinus uncinata) offer food and shelter for lichens and insects not just because…
Early COVID-19 research is riddled with poor methods and low-quality results − a problem for science the pandemic worsened but didn’t create
Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers flooded journals with studies about the then-novel coronavirus. Many publications streamlined the peer-review process for COVID-19 papers while keeping acceptance rates relatively high. The…
Cheap mini-EVs sparkle in China’s smaller, poorer cities
Affordable EVs with cheerful designs are bringing a touch of color to China’s overlooked cities. Tiny electric cars weave through traffic in southern China, their cheap and cheerful designs bringing…
Neuroscientist uses AI to map learning, decision-making, to discover how brains work
Meta-learning of RL. Credit: Nature Neuroscience (2023). DOI: 10.1038/s41593-023-01485-3 With trial and error, repetition and praise, when a puppy hears “Sit,” they learn what they’re expected to do. That’s reinforcement…
