Visible imagery from NASA’s Terra satellite provided confirmation of the development of Tropical Cyclone 02A in the Arabian Sea, Northern Indian Ocean.
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Experiments Reveal the Physics of Evaporation
It’s a process so fundamental to everyday life — in everything from your morning coffeemaker to the huge power plant that provides its electricity — that it’s often taken for granted: the way a liquid boils away from a hot surface.
Mysterious Holes in Antarctic Sea Ice Explained by Years of Robotic Data
The winter ice on the surface of Antarctica’s Weddell Sea occasionally forms an enormous hole.
Our Brains Appear Uniquely Tuned for Musical Pitch
In the eternal search for understanding what makes us human, scientists found that our brains are more sensitive to pitch, the harmonic sounds we hear when listening to music, than our evolutionary relative the macaque monkey.
Lettuce Have It! Machine Learning for Cr-optimisation
At Earlham Institute (EI), artificial intelligence based techniques such as machine learning is moving from being merely an exciting premise to having real-life applications, where it’s needed most: improving efficiency and precision on the farm.
Our Water Cycle Diagrams Give a False Sense of Water Security
Leaving humans out of the picture, the researchers argue, contributes to a basic lack of awareness of how humans relate to water on Earth – and a false sense of security about future availability of this essential and scarce resource.


