Topping the latest table of achievements was an artificial intelligence model from tech giant Huawei that can forecast the weather – including temperature, humidity and wind speed – more accurately than traditional predictions based on computing power. The model, named Pangu-Weather, was trained on decades of observation data and is able to predict the weather …
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Carlyn Kranking, Assistant Editor for Science and Innovation, discusses how female birds are often overlooked in photography and conservation efforts. While male birds with their vibrant colors and patterns typically steal the spotlight, the more muted females tend to blend into the background. The Galbatross Project, a group dedicated to female bird conservation, recognized this …
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Ben Huff’s photographs and text feature college student Abby Watts from Juneau, Alaska, standing on a nunatak, an exposed ridge above the Juneau Icefield. Accompanied by Fabienne Meier, a student from Zurich, Switzerland, Watts studies enormous boulders in varying shades of gray. They record data in a waterproof yellow notebook, measuring the rocks in centimeters. …
Sign up for a full digest of all the best opinions of the week in our Voices Dispatches email Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter A group of butterflies with orange wings and dark eyespots have been named Saurona after the Lord Of The Rings villain. These butterflies possess black rings on their …