Astronomers explore the surface composition of a nearby super-Earth

Using MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument) on board the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), a team of researchers led by former MPIA ...

Scientists Think Ghost Particles Could Be Storing Their Mass in a Hidden Dimension

Neutrinos are so tiny, so nearly massless, that they’re very difficult to isolate. But we know for sure that they’re produced ...
War on the RocksOpinion

From Slogan to Standard: How the Pentagon Should Define Affordable Mass

The term “affordable mass” entered public defense discourse in 2021 as a munitions concept, which the Air Force adopted in ...
IEEE

LMZMPM: Local Modified Zernike Moment Per-Unit Mass for Robust Human Face Recognition

Abstract: In this work, we proposed a novel method, called Local Modified Zernike Moment per unit Mass (LMZMPM), for face recognition, which is invariant to illumination, scaling, noise, in-plane ...
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Explosion of invasive 'janitor fish' sparks mass removal operation in Indonesia's capital

Authorities in Indonesia’s capital are seeking to remove at least 10 tons of janitor fish from the city’s waterways.

This wooden 10-story office building wiggles to withstand earthquakes

As visitors head into downtown Vancouver through the city’s False Creek Flats neighborhood, the first thing they’ll see is ...
The Boston Globe

Mass. housing crisis can’t be solved by new construction alone

Massachusetts permitted fewer new homes last year than at any point since 2012, and the state is already badly behind Governor Maura Healey’s goal of allowing 222,000 new units by 2035. Meanwhile, ...
The Next Web

Tesla’s China chief calls Shanghai factory a ‘golden key’ to mass-producing humanoid robots

In short: Tesla’s China president Wang Hao has described the Shanghai Gigafactory as a “golden key” to mass-producing Optimus humanoid robots, the first time a Tesla executive has publicly linked the ...