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Webb telescope just snapped direct image of worlds many light-years away

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Our hope with this kind of research is to understand our own solar system, life, and ourselves in the comparison to other exoplanetary systems, so we can contextualize our existence," William Balmer, an astronomer at Johns Hopkins University who led the new research, said in a statement. "We

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In Miami, this 3D-printed seawall will help protect the coastline

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Developed by our team of architects and marine biologists at Florida International University, the uniquely textured prototype tiles are designed to test a new approach for helping cities such as Miami adapt to rising sea levels while simultaneously restoring ecological balance along their shorelines. Read the original article.

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Universal Speech Model (USM): State-of-the-art speech AI for 100+ languages

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Today, we are excited to share more about the Universal Speech Model (USM), a critical first step towards supporting 1,000 languages. For the comparison, we only use the 18 languages that Whisper can successfully decode with lower than 40% WER. Comparison of USM (with or without in-domain data) and Whisper results on ASR benchmarks.

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In Louisiana’s ‘Cancer Alley,’ Black communities get all of the pollution—but very few of the jobs

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A new study led by Tulane University backs up that view, revealing stark racial disparities across the U.S.s The amount of money theyre investing in schools and various programs pales in comparison to how much theyre profiting in our communities, she said. petrochemical workforce. We sacrifice so much and get so little in return.

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Webb reveals thats no star over there. Its an entire freaking galaxy.

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SEE ALSO: Astronomers have detected oxygen in the most ancient known galaxy This is a side-by-side comparison of how the Spitzer Space Telescope viewed Herbig-Haro 49/50 in 2006, left, with Webb's composite image of the same target. When peering out into space, we get a 2D view of a 3D universe," the institute said in a news release.

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Scientists modified the eyes of 5 humans to see an ‘unprecedented’ new color

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It defies any comparison to anything humans have seen because, well, nobody has seen it except these five lucky individuals. For now, olo exists only in flashesa fleeting crack in the door to a stranger universe. Our method depends on specialized lasers and optics that arent coming to smartphones anytime soon, Fong told LiveScience.

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How machine learning can be used to identify microplastics

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The width of a human hair, for comparison, ranges from 20 to 200 micrometers. Testing the tool To run our conformal prediction, my team used libraries of microplastic spectra from the Rochman Lab at the University of Toronto as the calibration set. Ambuj Tewari is a professor of statistics at the University of Michigan.

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