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Spring has arrived in the United States and hummingbirds are headed north. The birds typically migrate north in the late winter and spring, after spending their winters in parts of Central America or Mexico. An online map gives you a close look at the birds’ route north and when to expect their arrival as they ...

The government has announced the launch of a new digital map of the entire network of underground power cables, gas pipes, sewers and water mains across the country. The interactive map has been tested in the North East of England and will be rolled out throughout England, Wales and Northern Ireland by 2025. In the ...

IMECE, our first high-resolution observation satellite produced with domestic and national means, will be launched into orbit on April 11. IMECE is a remote sensing satellite produced with local resources of up to 60% by the Space Technologies Research Institute of Türkiye’s Scientific and Technological Research Council (TUBITAK). With the inauguration of IMECE, Türkiye will, ...

Though just 37 miles wide and 48 miles long, Rhode Island boasts 400 miles of shoreline. And University of Rhode Island graduate student Erica Meier knows most all of its 400-plus public access points. Meier spent the summer and fall of 2022 visiting and recording public shoreline access points along the coast with 41°N editor ...

Researchers with the Department of Animal Science at the University of Manitoba have taken a closer look at the current productivity of agricultural Crown lands (ACL) in Manitoba for grazing. The new research has determined that unclaimed productivity within these areas can be economically valuable to producers, thereby supporting the strategies and goals outlined in ...

“Object segmentation” is nothing new; AI researchers have worked on it for years. But typically, building these models has been a time-consuming process requiring lots of human annotation of images and considerable computing resources. And typically the resulting models were highly specialized to particular use cases. Now though, researchers at Meta have unveiled the Segment ...

UCLA researchers led by Aydogan Ozcan and Mona Jarrahi have developed a multispectral imaging technology capable of turning a monochrome sensor into a multispectral one. Rather than the traditional absorptive filters used for multispectral imaging, the technology uses a diffractive optical network to form 16 unique spectral bands periodically repeating at the output image field ...

As cities continue expanding, forested areas are becoming scarcer, and less dense. That’s bad news for the wildlife that call those areas home. A University of Cincinnati doctoral student is studying what local areas are important to North America’s largest woodpecker. “The pileated woodpecker is not considered as a vulnerable species, but it is an ...