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OpenTopography's Big Data project illustrates approximate decadal change in Indiana's landscape Scientists study the topography—the forms and features of the landscape—to measure and observe changes at the Earth's surface over time. While some changes are the result of natural processes like fluvial erosion and coastal erosion, the topography can also change due to anthropogenic forces, including those related to urban development, agriculture and resource extraction.

Curtin researchers have recovered a freshly fallen meteorite after pinpointing its exact location on the vast Nullarbor Plain in Western Australia, with a new technique that uses a drone to collect footage of the landscape that is then scanned using artificial intelligence.

Deep learning models are becoming increasingly common in bioimage analysis. Yet a lack of standardization and the use of these algorithms by non-experts are potential sources of bias. Scientists from EPFL and the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) offer practical tips and guidance in a paper recently published in the journal IEEE.

A new data analysis tool developed by Yale researchers has revealed the specific immune cell types associated with increased risk of death from COVID-19, they report Feb. Immune system cells such as T cells and antibody-producing B cells are known to provide broad protection against pathogens such as SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.

By Christoph Pelzl Researchers at TU Graz have modelled an AI system for automotive radar sensors that filters out interfering signals caused by other radar sensors and dramatically improves object detection. Now the system is to be made more robust to weather and environmental influences as well as new types of interference.

No coding skills are needed to build and test software prototypes with weave.ly The Vrije Universiteit Brussel has a new spin-off.

Banks monitor huge quantities of financial transactions on a daily basis, with the aim to combat money laundering and the financing of terrorism. Political scientist Esmé Bosma studied the ways in which banks experiment with digital technologies and how they implement counter-terrorist financing regulations.

Tested without needing hospitals to share data, the method for developing the model could speed further improvements in medical prediction tools A newly developed open-source patient deterioration model is improving care at the University of Michigan's health system. Now, a study published in the British Medical Journal demonstrates that it is effective at 12 other hospital centers around the United States, outperforming the accuracy of the widely used EPIC Deterioration Index by more than 21%.

News Release - Queen's Researchers develop algorithm to identify pulmonary hypertension from available Ontario healthcare data KINGSTON, ON- Pulmonary hypertension is an often under-recognized chronic disease that involves a congestion of blood supply in the lungs and heart, and is associated with other life-threatening diseases like heart failure.

New technique could make quantum networking possible Engineers at Caltech have developed an approach for quantum storage could help pave the way for the development of large-scale optical quantum networks. The new system relies on nuclear spins-the angular momentum of an atom's nucleus-oscillating collectively as a spin wave.

We use Google's image search to help us understand the world around us. For example, a search about a certain profession, "truck driver” for instance, should yield images that show us a representative smattering of people who drive trucks for a living. But in 2015, University of Washington researchers found that when searching for a variety of occupations - including "CEO” - women were significantly underrepresented in the image results , and that these results can change searchers- worldviews.

Dude, what if everything around us was just.. a hologram? The thing is, it could be-and a University of Michigan physicist is using quantum computing and machine learning to better understand the idea, called holographic duality. Holographic duality is a mathematical conjecture that connects theories of particles and their interactions with the theory of gravity.

Sustainability of ice roads at risk due to climate change By A new study found that measuring the time it takes for a radar pulse to travel from a satellite to the sea surface and back again can reveal the thickness of river ice and dates when it is safe to travel on ice roads and bridges in arctic regions.

Researchers at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) have developed a system based on computer vision techniques that allows automatic analysis of biomedical videos captured by microscopy in order to characterise and describe the behaviour of the cells that appear in the images. These new techniques developed by the UC3M engineering team have been used for measurements on living tissues, in research carried out with scientists from the National Centre for Cardiovascular Research (CNIC in its Spanish acronym).

A team of experts in artificial intelligence and animal ecology have put forth a new, cross-disciplinary approach intended to enhance research on wildlife species and make more effective use of the vast amounts of data now being collected thanks to new technology. Their study appears today. The field of animal ecology has entered the era of big data and the Internet of Things.

The Tartan-Artibeus-1 Satellite, developed at Carnegie Mellon University, was aboard SpaceX's successful Falcon 9 launch of Transporter-3 to orbit on Jan. It was deployed to low-Earth orbit as part of the Alba Unicorn constellation. "Our lab developed the Tartan-Artibeus-1 Satellite, which is what we believe to be the world's first batteryless PocketQube nanosatellite," said Brandon Lucia , an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering.

Athletes and sports fans know that a torn ACL knocks a player out of the game, requires surgical repair and involves a long recovery. But for many injured athletes, being temporarily sidelined is only the beginning of a lifelong struggle. According to Eni Halilaj , an assistant professor in mechanical engineering at Carnegie Mellon University and biomechanist who specializes in orthopaedic rehabilitation, 60% of those who suffer this common knee injury also develop osteoarthritis early in life.

A Belgian-Dutch scientific team, including researchers from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, has created the first ever "treasure map" revealing where meteorites can be found in Antarctica. Meteorites come from space and are found on the Earth's surface as stony material. They contain crucial information about the formation and evolution of our solar system.

By Yannic Maus Many of today's and tomorrow's computer systems distribute data to several machines, or the systems are built on top of large-scale networks, such as the internet or sensor networks. Our research builds the theoretical foundations for these settings. We analyse and develop distributed algorithms that are fast and communication efficient.

Maximizing the performance and efficiency of structures-everything from bridges to computer components-can be achieved by design with a new algorithm developed by researchers at the University of Michigan and Northeastern University. It's an advancement likely to benefit a host of industries where costly and time-consuming trial-and-error testing is necessary to determine the optimal design.