Saskatoon beaver takes down Canadian flag, makes off with flagpole
A Saskatoon photographer captured his own heritage minute after he witnessed a beaver standing on guard for thee, right under
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Physicists made photons be friends with magnons
A team of scientists from MIPT and NUST MISIS have developed and tested a new platform for realization of the
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Sichuan shut down crypto mining and banks cut off crypto trading: TechNode
Chinese officials continue to crack down on crypto mining and trading. The government of Sichuan province shut down a slew
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Great Barrier Reef should be listed as ‘in danger’: UN says, upsetting Australia
The Great Barrier Reef should be added to a list of World Heritage Sites that are “in danger,” a United
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New ultrathin material created under extreme pressure
An international research team with members from Linköping University has discovered a new material with a thickness of a single
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updates with police statement · TechNode
Chinese ride-hailing company Shouqi apologized on Monday for a safety incident in which a woman exited a moving car in
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Intelligent carpet gives insight into human poses
The sentient Magic Carpet from Aladdin might have a new competitor. While it can’t fly or speak, a new tactile sensing carpet
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12-year-old Dartmouth girl grows milkweed plants to help monarch butterflies
A 12-year-old Dartmouth, N.S., girl is growing and giving away hundreds of milkweed plants so endangered monarch butterflies have somewhere safe
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Multi-Task Learning and Adapted Knowledge Models for Emotion-Cause Extraction
Emotion recognition in the text has gotten significant attention from researchers recently. However, current models struggle with fine-grained emotion analysis,
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3 coyote attacks on people in northwest Calgary believed to be by lone ‘unusually bold and aggressive’ animal
For the latest update, see: Coyote will be killed after 3 attacks on people in northwest Calgary The northwest Calgary community
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HifiFace: 3D Shape and Semantic Prior Guided High Fidelity Face Swapping
Face swapping is the task of generating images with source face identity and the attributes from the target image. Current
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‘Living fossil’ fish surprises scientists with 100-year lifespan
The coelacanth — a wondrous fish that was thought to have gone extinct along with the dinosaurs 66 million years ago
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Pheromones, mulch and wildflowers – how to control pests without pesticides
Most crops require pesticides to grow profitably. But many pesticides are too efficient at killing insects, often indiscriminately. They aim
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Records fall as heat wave bakes B.C. — and it’s only going to get hotter, forecasters say
A heat wave has officially descended upon much of B.C. and has already established itself as a record-breaker days before its anticipated
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Scientists Demonstrate Perfect Light Absorption by Single Nanoparticle
In the future, this discovery will be helpful in the development of new technologies for wireless transfer of energy and
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China state-backed ride-hailing company faces heat for safety · TechNode
Chinese ride-hailing company Shouqi is under fire for safety issues after a woman in Hangzhou claimed she injured herself by
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Majority of Canadians want climate plan that keeps regional economies strong, poll suggests
A majority of Canadians believe that when it comes to developing a strategy to fight climate change, a top priority should be ensuring
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Accelerating the Speed of Science
In today’s digitalized world, researchers have access to more data than ever before. Generic central processing units (CPUs) and graphics
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Luckin is not dead · TechNode
Out of all the Icarus stories in China tech, Luckin Coffee’s is one of the most spectacular. Founded in 2017,
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Pedestrians’ and cyclists’ behaviours are greatly affected by their feelings
“People’s perceived risk and their worry about hazards are of particular interest because they influence behaviour”, says Kummeneje. The results
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The Difficulty of Novelty Detection in Open-World Physical Domains: An Application to Angry Birds
As autonomous systems like self-driving cars and planetary robots are more widely used, reacting to novel situations has become more
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The Longest-Running Evolution Experiment | Technology Org
Evolution is hardly predictable. But it works. And works so well, that this efficiency of evolving is often underestimated by
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Optical Mouse: 3D Mouse Pose From Single-View Video
Many human clinical conditions result in abnormal motion. When investigating corresponding animal models, researchers have to measure the motion as
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Can artificial intelligence open new doors for materials discovery?
A new take on artificial intelligence may open many doors for 3D printing and designing advanced nuclear reactors. The future of clean
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Why do some alloys become stronger at room temperature?
For more than 100 years, we’ve known that some metal alloys become stronger by being kept at room temperature. But
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