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Credit: Journal of Remote Sensing (2023). DOI: 10.34133/remotesensing.0086 In a study published in the Journal of Remote Sensing on 28 September 2023, a team of researchers from the Chinese Academy of Forestry and the University of Maryland has developed a sophisticated Multifactor Weighting (MFW) method for creating clear, seamless, and radiometrically consistent image composites using … Read more
The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US A father and son have been arrested in connection to the murder of pregnant teenager Savanah Soto and her boyfriend. San Antonio Police announced late on Wednesday that Christopher … Read more
How deeply someone can be hypnotized — known as hypnotizability — appears to be a stable trait that changes little throughout adulthood, much like personality and IQ. But now, for the first time, Stanford Medicine researchers have demonstrated a way to temporarily heighten hypnotizablity — potentially allowing more people to access the benefits of hypnosis-based … Read more
Credit: Andrea Piacquadio from Pexels Way back in February 2020, before most of us really knew anything about COVID, we wrote an article for The Conversation about “leaveism” and its impact on flexible working. Barely a month later, the world was bracing for a pandemic that would inadvertently create the largest (forced) working experiment of … Read more
Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email The Metropolitan Police have defended their investigation of alleged war crimes in the Israel-Gaza war, saying they are obliged to by an international agreement. Boris Johnson and other critics have hit out at the … Read more
A breakthrough achieved by researchers from four Israeli universities — Tel Aviv University, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Bar-Ilan University and Ariel University- will enable archaeologists to identify burnt materials discovered in excavations and estimate their firing temperatures. Applying their method to findings from ancient Gath (Tell es-Safi in central Israel), the researchers validated the … Read more
The Norwegian flat oysters are of great international interest. The image is from the researchers’ field work in Agder and Rogaland. Credit: Molly Reamon Flat oysters, commonly known as oysters, are considered a delicacy. As a species, they prefer warmer waters and are typically found just below the tidal zone at depths of a few … Read more
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Britain is set for a long and dirty general election campaign in 2024, as Rishi Sunak ruled out a spring vote and revealed that he wanted to go to the polls much later … Read more
People who have more disrupted sleep in their 30s and 40s may be more likely to have memory and thinking problems a decade later, according to new research published in the January 3, 2024, online issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. The study does not prove that sleep quality … Read more
Characterization of the experimental setup. a) Schematic of the steps involved in the experiment. A pair of XUV pulses (drawn in violet) photoemits electrons from a ZnO crystal. The electrons experience the dynamic field of an NIR laser pulse (drawn in red) close to the surface at a variable waiting time. The emission site of … Read more
