by dankeelan | Jul 25, 2024 | Autonomous Vehicles, Featured, Imaging, Robotaxis, Transit
Urban waterways like rivers and canals have gone from essential travel and trading corridors to urban afterthoughts. They’re used by freighters or limited ferry services, but are otherwise mostly forgotten and largely untouched by the millions who live on their...
by dankeelan | Jun 1, 2023 | Artificial Intelligence, Drones, Imaging
The Antarctic continent conjures visions of white ice and blue sky. But not far from Australia’s Casey Station, 3,880km due south of Perth, moss beds emerge verdant and green. Sadly, the health of these moss beds is declining due to changing climate...
by dankeelan | May 18, 2023 | Digital Twins, Featured, Imaging
The RMS Titanic sank to the bottom of the North Atlantic in 1912, but the fate of the ship and its passengers has fascinated the popular imagination for more than a century. Now we have the first full-size 3D digital scan of the complete wreckage—a...
by dankeelan | Apr 13, 2023 | Artificial Intelligence, Featured, Imaging, Space
The image of the supermassive black hole at the heart of the galaxy Messier 87 was boosted to high fidelity by a machine learning program trained on black hole models. A distant supermassive black hole is looking sharp after a makeover from a supercomputer. The...
by dankeelan | Jan 19, 2023 | Imaging, Space
A galactic photo shoot has captured more than 3 billion stars and galaxies in one of the biggest sky surveys ever. A dark-energy camera on a telescope in Chile made the observations over two years, focusing on the Southern Hemisphere sky. The National Science...
by dankeelan | Jul 28, 2022 | Featured, Imaging, Space
Even NASA’s next-generation space observatory can’t manage to see supermassive black holes directly, but that doesn’t mean astronomers can’t use its data to better understand the mysterious behemoths. The opportunities are even on display in...
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