The Most Vexing Variable in the Search for E.T.

This is the last of three blog posts associated with this week’s episode of Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, which addresses life in the universe. Read the first and second here. Someday, in the not too ...
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How 3I ATLAS Became the Most Baffling Object Ever Detected

It came from deep space and followed no known path. 3I ATLAS entered the Solar System without warning, moving faster and stranger than anything astronomers had ever seen. This is the investigation ...
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Vet removes mysterious object from inside a snake

A routine examination turned extraordinary when a veterinarian discovered a mysterious object lodged deep inside a snake’s digestive tract. X-rays revealed an unusual shape that couldn’t be identified ...
Astronomy

How the government shutdown affects NASA

A federal government shutdown resulted in the furlough of approximately 15,000 NASA civil servants, necessitating the suspension of most agency functions, including educational support, public access, ...
IFLScience

Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS Appeared To Turn From Red To Green. Why?

Tom has a Master's degree in Journalism. His editorial work covers anything from archaeology and the environment to technology and culture. Tom has a Master's degree in Journalism. His editorial work ...
New York Post

How to know if you have ‘dense breasts’ — which can increase your cancer risk by 6 times

Are your boobs keeping secrets? Today is “World Dense Breast Day,” raising awareness for a trait that increases cancer risk and makes tumors harder to detect using traditional screening methods — and ...
justthenews

School district defends threatening girls if they object to males in their restroom, risking probe

A Maryland county known nationally for Navy football games is playing a much riskier game with the federal government, flaunting its school district's threat to punish female students who protest ...
IEEE

VPDNet: Virtual Point Density-Aware Network for Multimodal 3-D Object Detection

Abstract: LiDAR has become a prevalent sensor for 3-D object detection in autonomous driving. However, the sparse and irregular nature of point cloud data obtained from LiDAR necessitates the adoption ...
IEEE

Multi-Robot Cooperative Transportation of Irregular Objects by Multi-Objective Optimization With Distributed Control

Abstract: To enhance the efficiency of cooperative transportation by multiple mobile robots, we propose a transportation strategy based on multi-objective optimization of robot configurations. The ...
Times Union

Research replication can determine how well science is working – but how do scientists replicate studies?

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Amanda Kay Montoya, University of California, Los Angeles (THE CONVERSATION) Back in ...
The Conversation

Research replication can determine how well science is working – but how do scientists replicate studies?

Amanda Kay Montoya is an Associate Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. She serves on the Board of Directors for the Center for Open Science. She receives funding from the ...