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Google just announced that it has been riverline floods, up to seven days in advance in some cases. This isn’t just tech company hyperbole, as the findings were actually published Nature. Floods are the most common natural disaster throughout the world, so any early warning system is good news.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ET04pDj-RvMFloods have been notoriously tricky to predict, as most rivers don’t have streamflow gauges. Google got around this problem by with all kinds of relevant data, including historical…

A forthcoming Android upgrade could mean a goodbye to the trouble of navigating with an erratic blue spot on Google Maps. A post on the Android Developers blog gives details about this potential upgrade. It describes the Fused Orientation Provider (FOP) API, which promises better device orientation across all Android phones. The next Android update promises sharper navigation on Google Maps The annoyance of phones misinterpreting direction will soon vanish with FOP since it combines accelerometer, gyroscope, and…

In the forests of eastern Australia, a unique annual ritual is underway. A male superb lyrebird fans out its large tail and bobs up and down amongst the foliage. It's performing a song and dance routine in hopes of winning a potential mate. Unfortunately, this bird isn't drawing any attention. Female lyrebirds require more complex songs to win the ability to mate. During his mating display, the male lyre bird puts on a show in his performing ground, replicating the sounds he hears in the surrounding forest — with…

Average SOC stock Mg ha-1 across soil horizons and volumetric stone content (%) classes for the combined I-SIS, HSP and SQUARE datasets. Credit: Geoderma Regional (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.geodrs.2024.e00769 Researchers from Teagasc have published an article in Geoderma Regional highlighting the consequences of not measuring soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks in Irish grassland soils precisely. Quantifying changes in SOC, either…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A more accurate way of identifying underground nuclear tests, including those conducted in secret, has been developed by researchers at The Australian National University (ANU). The new method could help international observers better identify tests carried out by countries or actors known to possess nuclear weapons, as well as…

Researchers in New Brunswick are developing a new approach to tackling Canada's growing threat of wildfires: teaching artificial intelligence to find them faster.A team of engineers at the Université de Moncton is fine-tuning an algorithm that works with satellite and drone images to detect fires more accurately than humans. The technology also predicts where a blaze will spread, helping firefighters know where to send resources.Moulay Akhloufi, a computer science professor and head of the Perception, Robotics and…

Wildlife officials across the Great Lakes are looking for spies to take on an almost impossible mission: stop the spread of invasive carp.Over the last five years, agencies have employed a new seek-and-destroy strategy that uses turncoat carp to lead them to the fish's hotspot hideouts.Agency workers turn carp into double agents by capturing them, implanting transmitters and tossing them back. Floating receivers send real-time notifications when a tagged carp swims past. Carp are large fish with an even larger appetite.…

“Weather prediction is one of the most challenging problems that humanity has been working on for a long, long time. And if you look at what has happened in the last few years with climate change, this is an incredibly important problem,” says Pushmeet Kohli, the vice president of research at Google DeepMind.   Traditionally, meteorologists use massive computer simulations to make weather predictions. They are very energy intensive and  time consuming to run, because the simulations take into account many physics-based…

Guizhou's carbon emissions totaled 280 Tg CO2, with notable spatial differences: higher in the west and lower in the east. Bijie and Liupanshui cities had the highest emissions due to their significant roles in energy production and mineral resources, making their per capita emissions exceed 10 t. Conversely, areas like Qiandongnan and Qianxinan had lower emissions, attributed to their geographic locations, good ecological protection, and higher…

Researchers have developed a new technique to better detect extraterrestrial radio signals by weeding out the interference caused by Earth-based devices. It’s hoped that the technique will lead to the discovery of the first evidence of life outside our planet.The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) aims to detect evidence of technological civilizations – technosignatures – elsewhere in the universe. Radio frequencies, out of the whole electromagnetic spectrum, are a good candidate for picking up…