The most common planets in the galaxy don't appear around the most common stars, TESS observations suggest

Astronomers now estimate there is at least one planet for every star in our galaxy. These worlds, called exoplanets, are ...

Were enormous octopuses apex predators in ancient oceans?

Below the waves, giant marine reptiles, such as the fearsome 4m (13ft) long mosasaurs, were the undisputed apex predators. In artistic reconstructions of these ancient oceans, cephalopods – the animal ...

Neanderthal brains measure up to ours—literally

If you look at a Neanderthal skull and a Homo sapiens skull, they’re visibly different: Neanderthal skulls are lower and longer, whereas ours tend to be rounder. However, those differences probably ...
CNET

Planet Parade in the Sky: How to View 4 Planets Lined Up This Week

The four planets will be visible just before sunrise on the eastern horizon. Stellarium. The optimal time to view it depends ...

Built for small spaces, the Koala sofa bed is comfortable all day, guest-ready at night, and quick to fold out

I spent two weeks with the Koala Sofa Bed and found its compact design makes hosting easy, with plusher seating and washable ...
IEEE

Boosting Crater Detection via ViT-Based Feature Fusion From Near-IR Images and DEMs

Abstract: Inspired by the recent progress of multimodal fusion in a variety of computer vision tasks, this letter aims to propose a two-stream fusion crater detection network (TFCDNet). Toward this ...
IEEE

Optical Actuation of GeTe Phase-Change RF Switches at 915nm: Performance Comparison for Different GeTe Sizes and Impact of Cycling

Abstract: This paper presents GeTe-based switches for RF applications, reversibly switching between their ON and OFF states thanks to optical activation by irradiation. Contrarily to what has been ...