Firepits of the Gods: Ancient memories of maar volcanoes

In the heart of Takapuna, north-central Auckland, is a natural lake—Pupuke—while a little way offshore lies…

State park attendance trends suggest parks will be overburdened by mid-century

A combined team of researchers from Utah State University and North Carolina State University has found…

Painstaking veterinary forensics to combat animal abuse

Many people have seen dramatizations of forensics on shows likes Bones and CSI. Forensics is the…

Training neural belief-propagation decoders for quantum error-correcting codes

Two researchers at Université de Sherbrooke, in Canada, have recently developed and trained neural belief-propagation (BP)…

Big tech surveillance could damage democracy

Data is often called the oil of the 21st century. Click here for original…

An effective, affordable early childhood education sector for Australia

Leading up to the election, Labor campaigned on an ambitious suite of early childhood policies, including…

Eyes in the sky: How satellites can monitor infrastructure health

Increasing global population growth and resource exploitation is creating a huge demand for civil infrastructure, including…

Maxar Technologies Awarded Study Contract with U.S. National Reconnaissance Office for Commercial Imagery Capabilities

Maxar Technologies today announced that it has been awarded a study contract with the National Reconnaissance…

Tolerance to stress is a 'trade-off' as fruit flies age

The consequences of aging are damage and degeneration of cells, which leads to loss of function,…

Loss of Arctic sea ice stokes summer heat waves in southern U.S.

Over the last 40 years, Arctic sea ice thickness, extent and volume have declined dramatically. Now,…