Award-winning teen birdwatcher launches mobile game in which players explore birding hotspots
One of the small pleasures of this pandemic spring for some British Columbians has been getting to know their local birds
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CelebHair: A New Large-Scale Dataset for Hairstyle Recommendation based on CelebA
A hairstyle recommendation system that would recommend hairstyles according to facial shapes or other properties could be useful for barbers
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Twitter users face outage again
— AFP/File Hours after thousands were affected by a Twitter outage, users on Saturday evening once again reported they had
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A new era of flight on other worlds
The first flight of a helicopter on Mars will mark the beginning of a new milestone in aviation history. To
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Defective freeloader genomes unmasked in DNA virus infections
Defective freeloader viral genomes have been detected in infections by DNA viruses in humans for the first time, researchers at
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The ongoing search for the perfect climate change metaphor
This week: The ongoing search for the perfect climate change metaphor A new — and drier — home for endangered
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With impressive accuracy, dogs can sniff out coronavirus
In a proof-of-concept study led by the University of Pennsylvania, dogs identified positive samples with 96% accuracy. Many long for
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SpaceX wins $2.9B contract for NASA moon lander
NASA said on Friday it has awarded billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk’s private space company SpaceX a $2.9 billion contract to
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Picosecond electron transfer in peptides can help energy technologies
Biological energy flows, such as in photosynthesis and respiration, depending on the transfer of electrons from one molecule to another.
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This year’s Yukon River Chinook salmon run will likely be small, according to forecast
The 2021 Yukon River Chinook salmon run will likely be a small one, according to pre-season forecasts. Officials on both
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Tiny wireless implant detects oxygen deep within the body
Engineers at the University of California, Berkeley, have created a tiny wireless implant that can provide real-time measurements of tissue
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A total of some 2.5 billion T. rex roamed the Earth, study finds
One Tyrannosaurus rex seems scary enough. Now picture 2.5 billion of them. That’s how many of the fierce dinosaurs probably roamed
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Instagram Filter Removal on Fashionable Images
Pictures in social networks like Instagram or Facebook often are edited by applying some filters. Convolutional neural networks-based visual understanding
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Google Earth adds time lapse video to depict climate change
The Google Earth app is adding a new video feature that draws upon nearly four decades of satellite imagery to
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Learning What To Do by Simulating the Past
Learning policies with neural networks requires writing a reward function by hand or learning from human feedback. A recent paper
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Here’s how Labrador Inuit are leading the way by adapting to the curveballs of climate change
The social enterprise SmartICE has been internationally recognized for its ability to combine traditional knowledge with technology in order to
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Negative emissions, positive economy | Technology Org
The long-term goals of the Paris Agreement — keeping global warming well below 2 degrees Celsius and ideally 1.5 C in order
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Alta., Ont., Sask. and N.B. sign agreement to explore small nuclear reactors
Alberta’s Jason Kenney became the fourth premier to sign an agreement supporting the development of small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs)
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Scientists pioneer cryogenic coffee grinding
Skoltech PhD Dima Smirnov and his colleagues from St. Petersburg, Alexander Saichenko, Vladimir Dvortsov, Mikhail Tkachenko, and Maxim Kukolev developed
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Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin successfully launches another capsule to the edge of space
Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin company strapped two employees into a fuelled rocket for practice but pulled them out shortly before sending the
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‘Microchipped’ Monkey plays Pong with its Brainwith its Brain
Neuralink has demonstrated a video recording showing monkey that plays computer game using just its brain, through an
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Say what? More jargon in a paper means fewer scientists will read it, study finds
Science literature is often littered with technical terms that make little sense to people outside the field of research. But cave
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No Batteries? No Sweat! Wearable Biofuel Cells Now Produce Electricity from Lactate
Scientists develop biofuel cells that can power wearable electronics purely by using human sweat. Wearable electronic devices and biosensors are
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Liberals propose enshrining the right to a healthy environment in legislation
The Liberal government is proposing long-awaited changes to an environmental protection law that includes a recognition that everyone living in
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Drone hits a windshield at 100km/h – The outcome is surprisingly good
Drones are becoming ubiquitous throughout many industries, and despite new regulations mandating their use coming into force these robotic devices
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