The Xp Bodypart Checker: Xp Bodypart Checker successfully divided radiographs depending on the body part. Researchers at Osaka Metropolitan University have discovered a practical way to detect and fix common labeling errors in large radiographic…
Green spaces in cities help control floods, store…
[caption id="attachment_14669" align="alignnone" width="775"] Carly Ziter conducts field work in a restored urban prairie in Turville Point Conservation Park in Madison. PHOTO BY ERIC PEDERSEN[/caption] For many ecologists, fieldwork involves majestic mountains or rushing rivers…
Made for Mercury
[caption id="attachment_14664" align="alignnone" width="700"] Credit: ESA[/caption] On 6 March 2018, the BepiColombo engineering model was delivered to ESA’s mission control centre in Darmstadt, Germany. BepiColombo – ESA’s first mission to Mercury – is based on…
Dressing atoms in an ultracold soup
Physicists build bizarre molecules called 'Rydberg polarons' [caption id="attachment_14657" align="alignnone" width="644"] Rice University physicists (clockwise from left) Soumya Kanungo, Tom Killian, Roger Ding, Barry Dunning and Joe Whalen used lasers and an ultracold strontium gas…
Culturing cheaper stem cells
A new combination of chemical compounds could lead the way to more cost-effective stem cell cultures. [caption id="attachment_14653" align="alignright" width="269"] A human embryonic stem cell colony cultured in the newly developed medium.[/caption] Human pluripotent stem…