Scientists have uncovered Roman farms beneath what was thought to be prehistoric forest in France.
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Combining archaeological evidence, aerial scans and machine learning algorithms, researchers modeled how this medieval city grew over time.
Archaeologists used to dig primarily at sites that were easy to find thanks to obvious visual clues. But technology – and listening to local people – plays a much bigger role now.
Museums around the world have been grappling with the issue of diorama removal.
Driverless vehicles rely heavily on sensors to navigate the world. They’re vulnerable to attack if bad actors trick them into ‘seeing’ things that aren’t there, potentially leading to deadly crashes.
20 years ago, who could predict how much more researchers would know today about the human past – let alone what they could learn from a thimble of dirt, a scrape of dental plaque, or satellites in space.
Hundreds of millions more people will now be at risk from rising seas in the coming decades - with Asia and island nations most vulnerable. How we react to the climate crisis is now even more crucial.
The monster trees are almost 90m tall, and may make the Amazon’s northeast a much greater carbon sink than previously thought.
Scientific inspiration struck a geologist after many walks through the woods in New York and New England. These ruins hold the secret of where the compass pointed north when they were built centuries ago.
One-third of roads in the U.S. are unpaved; plenty more have faded or obscured road markings. Today’s self-driving vehicles can’t go on them, and will need new algorithms to handle those conditions.
Delivery bots, maintenance drones and care robots are all being tested in real world contexts – and that’s just the beginning.
Technology which located Mayan cities has been used to rediscover a southern African city from the 15th century.
Together, three recent events mark a crucial turning point in the development of autonomous cars: They are both safer and more advanced than ever before.
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Adjunct professor of mechanical engineering, Tufts University
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Professor Geography, Archaeology and Environmental Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan
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Associate Director, Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems; Ph.D. Student in Bagley College of Engineering, Industrial and Systems Engineering, Mississippi State University
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Assistant Research Professor and Associate Director for Human Factors and Advanced Vehicle System, Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems, Mississippi State University
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Assistant Research Professor, Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems, Mississippi State University
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Assistant Curator of Human Evolution., University of Alberta
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Associate Professor of Anthropology, Rice University
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Senior Research Fellow, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Central Lancashire
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Distinguished Teaching Professor of Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, University at Albany, State University of New York
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Professor of Anthropology, Michigan State University
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Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Oregon
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Forest Ecology and Conservation, University of Cambridge
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Research Associate in Ecosystems Modelling and Climate Data, University of Oxford
