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Indeed, researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have designed such a system based on advanced algorithms and a low-cost interactive camera like the one found in Microsoft’s …
Learning how to use astronomy equipment, proper observing etiquette, and the common speak of amateurs is best done in the group setting. However, the pointers in this article can really help you get started in self-education …
x94; Bruenjes, a 35-year-old Warrensburg electrical engineer/ amateur astronomer , has four good-sized telescopes in domes at the ICStars Astronomy Ranch where he lives. As he wrote on his moonglow.net …
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How to Start Amateur Astronomy Hobby. In Articles / Tags: /. Stars in the night sky have captured the imagination of mankind since the dawn of time. The people were astronomers before the farmers. And there are other …
Friday, February 10th 2012 just felt like the perfect night for a comet to be discovered by an amateur astronomer ,” writes Fred Bruenjes on his astronomy blog. And, this past Friday night, that’s exactly what Fred did. Here’s how …
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After a night of sleep deprivation, participants’ electrical responses were stronger than they were the previous day, the scientists report online February 7 in Cerebral Cortex. This overreaction disappeared after a night’s sleep.
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February 9, 2012 – Botany – Thursday. Filed under: Botany — jimbarth at 5:33 pm on Friday, February 10, 2012. Today we finished planting the square at the entry to our school. Points for today and yesterday are awarded for …
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Johann Rafelski, Jeremey Birrell, Lance Labun. We investigate the hypothesis that dark matter is found in compact ultra dense objects with nuclear density or greater (CUDOs). We discuss signatures of CUDOs’ collision with …
The Cassini spacecraft collects high resolution images of the saturnian satellites and reveals the surface of these new worlds. The shape and rotation of the satellites can be determined from the Cassini Imaging Science …
We study the parity violation in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) bispectrum induced by primordial magnetic fields (PMFs). Deriving a general formula for the CMB bispectrum generated from not only non-helical but …
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Are all dead people famous? A set of articles from Vinod Khosla on artificial intelligence has me thinking of some of the problems we still haven’t solved yet.
“One of the buzzwords in artificial intelligence research these days is ‘embodiment’, the idea that intelligence requires a body. But in the last few years, a growing body researchers have begun to explore the possibility that this …
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Arto Oksanen is a Finnish amateur astronomer interested in observing transient objects like gamma-ray burst afterglows, supernovae, novae and cataclysmic variables. He also observes exoplanet transits, and was the first …
I couldn’t help but notice this summer that South African amateur astronomer , Berto Monard, had an amazing string of supernovae discoveries. The IAU Circulars seemed to be announcing another Monard supernova every …
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But scientists often don’t know enough of the details to make such simulations accurate. “The more specific you can be, the better, but you shouldn’t be specific about the things you don’t know about,” says Marten Scheffer of …
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