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Scientists under arrest: the researchers taking action over climate change
Climate scientist Peter Kalmus is freaked out. And he thinks everyone should be just as alarmed as he is over the state of the planet. When he was a graduate student in 2006, Kalmus was studying astrophysics and says he was “blissfully ignorant” about the dangers of climate change. But then he learnt how the…
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Science can drive development and unity in Africa — as it does in the US and Europe
Kwame Nkrumah, pictured with Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s first prime minister after independence from Britain. Credit: Everett Collection Historical/Alamy It is within the possibility of science and technology to make even the Sahara bloom into a vast field with verdant vegetation.” These words, which still hold true today, were spoken by Kwame Nkrumah, educator, political theorist…
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Gallery of Uniting Science and Nature: Henning Larsen Wins Competition to Design B777 CERN Campus in France – 2
Uniting Science and Nature: Henning Larsen Wins Competition to Design B777 CERN Campus in France Courtesy of Henning Larsen ShareShare Facebook Twitter Mail Pinterest Whatsapp Or https://www.archdaily.com/1013512/uniting-science-and-nature-henning-larsen-wins-competition-to-design-b777-cern-campus-in-france Clipboard“COPY”Copy Henning Larsen and Ramboll have won the competition to design the new campus for the prestigious scientific research center, CERN. Designed to integrate science and nature, the…
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Gallery of Uniting Science and Nature: Henning Larsen Wins Competition to Design B777 CERN Campus in France – 1
Uniting Science and Nature: Henning Larsen Wins Competition to Design B777 CERN Campus in France Courtesy of Henning Larsen ShareShare Facebook Twitter Mail Pinterest Whatsapp Or https://www.archdaily.com/1013512/uniting-science-and-nature-henning-larsen-wins-competition-to-design-b777-cern-campus-in-france Clipboard“COPY”Copy Henning Larsen and Ramboll have won the competition to design the new campus for the prestigious scientific research center, CERN. Designed to integrate science and nature, the…
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Uniting Science and Nature: Henning Larsen Wins Competition to Design B777 CERN Campus in France
Uniting Science and Nature: Henning Larsen Wins Competition to Design B777 CERN Campus in France Courtesy of Henning Larsen ShareShare Facebook Twitter Mail Pinterest Whatsapp Or https://www.archdaily.com/1013512/uniting-science-and-nature-henning-larsen-wins-competition-to-design-b777-cern-campus-in-france Clipboard“COPY”Copy Henning Larsen and Ramboll have won the competition to design the new campus for the prestigious scientific research center, CERN. Designed to integrate science and nature, the…
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200 years of naming dinosaurs: scientists call for overhaul of antiquated system
An 1862 illustration of Megalosaurus, the first dinosaur to be named.Credit: Paul D. Stewart/SPL It’s been 200 years since scientists named the first dinosaur: Megalosaurus. In the centuries since, hundreds of other dinosaur species have been discovered and catalogued — their names inspired by everything from their physical characteristics to the scientists who first described…
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OPINION EXCHANGE | What ancient wisdom and social science say about friends
Opinion editor’s note: Star Tribune Opinion publishes a mix of national and local commentaries online and in print each day. To contribute, click here. ••• Regarding a recent letter to the editor, “Long live new friends” (Feb. 11) and the Star Tribune series “The Loneliness Cure,” to which it was responding: Our family too found…
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How science is helping to farmers find a balance between agriculture and solar farms
A farmer drives a combine harvester under hanging solar panels on an agrivoltaic site in Amance, France.Credit: PATRICK HERTZOG/AFP via Getty In March 2023, the French government passed a law requiring all solar projects on farmlands to provide some sort of service to agriculture: from improving yields to protecting crops from frost or heatwaves. The…
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Ambitious survey of human diversity yields millions of undiscovered genetic variants
The All of Us programme aims to recruit one million people from ethnic and socio-economic groups that are typically under-represented in biomedical studies.Credit: Barbara Alper/Getty A massive US programme that aims to improve health care by focusing on the genomes and health profiles of historically underrepresented groups has begun to yield results. Analyses of up…
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Automated discovery of algorithms from data
Abstract To automate the discovery of new scientific and engineering principles, artificial intelligence must distill explicit rules from experimental data. This has proven difficult because existing methods typically search through the enormous space of possible functions. Here we introduce deep distilling, a machine learning method that does not perform searches but instead learns from data…