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Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The development of the world's most performant neural network module for accurately extracting objects…

Last week, the internet dodged a major nation-state attack that would have had catastrophic cybersecurity repercussions worldwide. It’s a catastrophe that didn’t happen, so it won’t get much attention—but it should. There’s an important…

We’d like to introduce you to the Digital Experience Council, a new subcommittee of the Federal Chief Information Officer’s Council that partners with agency practitioners to deliver a digital-first public experience. The Digital…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Officials at a startup based in Carlsbad, California, expect a battery technology they have engineered…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain In the minds of some, the manifold ills of corporate capitalism have a single source: short-termism.…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain People who work from home all or part of the time are less likely to get pay rises and promotions, the…

Bruges, Belgium. Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A group of European urban areas bordering seas and rivers is paving the way for climate…

Image: Comparison of yarn hairiness for yarns of the same linear density (30 tex) and different spinning systems. Credit: Source: 'Investigating the influence of yarn…

A wavy jet stream in purple with high (red) and low (blue) pressure systems. Credit: NOAA climate.gov Headlines declaring a "Black…

A flare burns at a well pad Aug. 26, 2021, near Watford City, N.D. The levels of the crucial heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere reached historic highs in 2023,…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain East Coast residents were jolted Friday by a 4.8-magnitude earthquake centered near Lebanon, New Jersey,…

An aerial view of the excavation site at Crowland. Credit: The Anchor Church Field Project Archaeologists from Newcastle University have…

People tend to make more impulsive decisions if they think about time delays first, UCLA researchers have found. Changing how information is presented could lead to…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain When disaster hits, a quick and coordinated response is needed, and that requires data to assess the nature of the…

Leuven, Belgium I. Introduction The sixth ministerial meeting of the Trade and Technology Council (“TTC”) took place in Leuven, Belgium, on 4 and 5 April 2024. It was co-chaired by European Commission Executive Vice…

A better understanding of the complex hydrology in arid regions will give environmental managers the information they need to make the best possible decisions. Credit:…

Schematic diagrams of Z score and ecosystem water needs assessments. a, Landscape schematic diagram illustrating how normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) and…

Royal Research Ship (RSS) Discovery stopped at Azores, Portugal, for supplies during the 29th Atlantic Meridional Transect (AMT29). The cruise departed from…

EP-enhanced phase sensing platform. Credit: Science Advances (2024). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adl5037 Optical sensors serve as the backbone of…

The recurring nova T Coronae Borealis will shine as brightly as the North Star some time in the next five months, astronomers say. Sometime…

NASA's Loral O'Hara, left, Russia’s Oleg Novitsky and Belarus spaceflight participant Marina Vasilevskaya, right, are seen inside the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft after they…

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The paper argues for putting aside the old rentier state paradigm that has long dominated Gulf literature, considering the emergence of both the Gulf Moment and the United Arab Emirates Momentum (henceforth UAE Momentum).…

WASHINGTON, DC, April 04, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NatureServe, the leading authority on rare and endangered species and ecosystems in North America, proudly announces NatureServe Explorer Pro, an innovative tool that elevates the…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Current levels of interest in learning a foreign language are unprecedented, and there have never been so…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain When Americans mark their presidential election ballots later this year, immigration will be top of mind—it's the…

The Yangtze River. Credit: Peggy und Marco Lachmann-Anke from Pixabay The first study of toxic "forever chemicals" along the full length of…

Getting started How to use this guide: We recommend conducting accessibility testing throughout the design and development processes. If you have project-specific questions, ask your agency’s accessibility team. Plain language Can you…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A 7.4 magnitude earthquake has rocked the east coast of Taiwan—the largest the island nation has seen in…

A Yanomami Indigenous woman carries her child on her back at a Brazilian Air Force field hospital in the city of Boa Vista, Roraima state, Brazil, in January 2023.…

Getting started Accessible front-end development ensures people with different abilities can access, understand, and navigate web content, regardless of how they’re accessing it. Front-end developers collaborate with other members of a…

Spatial pattern of trends in annual mean NBP (gC m−2yr−1) across Africa over 2000 to 2019 based on an ensemble of 17 Dynamic Global Vegetation Models from TRENDY v9.…

Examples of pointed split woods and close-up images of the worked point. Photos: Matthias Vogel, Jens Lehmann, Dirk Leder, NLD. Credit: Proceedings of the National…

Getting started Product managers play a vital role in communicating accessibility requirements early in the project lifecycle, ensuring each team member knows their responsibility, and keeping the team accountable for building accessible…

Dental pieces from sheep found in the Cueva de El Toro sampled for this study. Credit: Alejandro Sierra, UAB The study of the feeding pattern…

Located in Finland's Siikaneva peatland, this permanent measurement station aids INAR researchers from the University of Helsinki in micrometeorological and aerosol…

Directionality of mechanistic links between climate change, biodiversity, and infectious disease. Credit: The Lancet Planetary Health (2024). DOI:…

A dolomite sample from the Cambrian Muav formation as seen through a microscope. Multiple generations of mineral-growth can be seen. Credit: Uri Ryb, Hebrew University…

This study explores the impact of human-induced climate change on Northern Hemisphere winter weather, highlighting the dominant role of specific teleconnection…

Sea ice in Disko Bay, Greenland, 20. March 2023. Credit: Lars Henrik Smedsrud Recent decades have witnessed rapid changes in the Arctic…

Getting started Accessibility is usability for people who interact with products differently. Your role is to help the team approach accessibility as a facet of user experience rather than checklist of requirements. How to use this…

Judy Zhang, left, and Rita Parai in Parai's laboratory. Credit: Sean Garcia/Washington University in St. Louis In Earth science, small…

Getting started Everyone benefits from designs that are easier to see. People with different visual abilities see your designs in varying ways—the diverse nature of impairments creates a wide variation in how your designs are perceived.…

The Aureia rerehua fossil. Credit: University of Otago University of Otago researchers have formally identified and named a fossil dolphin…

An artist-generated image illustrating possible futures in policy and research due to human modifications of the atmospheric water cycle. Credit: Patrick Keys and…

What is the Digital Experience Council? The Digital Experience (DX) Council was required by M-23-22, Delivering a Digital-First Public Experience, and launched in February 2024 as a subcommittee of the Federal Chief Information Officer’s…

What is the Program Management Improvement Accountability Act? The Program Management Improvement Accountability Act, otherwise known as PMIAA, was signed into law in December 2016. In June 2018, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)…

“From day one, President Biden and Vice President Harris have put climate change at the core of not just their foreign policy agenda, but also their economic competitiveness agenda,” said Sarah Ladislaw, Special Assistant to the…

Avoiding A Protracted Conflict: The Biden Administration should push the Ukrainians towards a negotiated settlement to avoid a prolonged conflict in Ukraine and mitigate further casualties and devastation. Acknowledging the grim reality…

This is part 2 of a two-part MIT News feature examining new job creation in the U.S. since 1940, based on new research from Ford Professor of Economics David Autor. Part 1 is available here. Ever since the…