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New research could lead to faster, trustworthy AI models for climate prediction
MIT scientists developed a training method to generate models that simulate the effects of human activities on climate much more quickly than other approaches.
MIT News · EN
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En 1997, près de 5 millions de Lego tombent d'un cargo au large de l'Angleterre. 29 ans plus tard, la mer en rend encore
Et si les plages anglaises conservaient encore les traces d'un accident maritime vieux de 29 ans ? Depuis 1997, des pièces Lego refont mystérieusement surface. Mais derrière cette étonnante chasse au trésor se cache une découverte bien moins réjouissante sur la persistance des plastiques dans...
Futura Sciences · FR
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‘Mind-blowing’: dark-sky fans gather on Exmoor to see what light pollution hides
The UK is 14th most light-polluted country, but in south-west England the veil is lifted at the dark skies festival “It’s just mind-blowing,” says the astronomer and teacher Jo Richardson. She is standing in Exmoor national park talking about Saturn, the first planet she ever saw through a telescope. But it is not the cosmic colour of the planet that Richardson is drawn to, nor its mysteries – it is the vastness. “Saturn, on average, is 800m miles away,” she says, the equivalent to travelling the circumference of the Earth 32,000 times. “You can see it through a telescope here. That’s just nut
Guardian Science · EN