Investments in agriculture technology companies are growing, hitting $6.7 billion in the last five years, and the number of venture capital deals are increasing, according to Finistere Ventures, a San Diego-based venture capital firm. Through October 2018, there were 28 deals globally for...
Imagine you have a big list of cities and wanted to concisely get an idea of what the weather is like over there.
If conciseness and speed wasn't a problem, you could look at a graph like this (below) for each city, but that's not fast.
So what metrics would you need to accurately capture the...
I know it not going to last, probably more than just today, but with the temperature at 70+ degrees, it officially Indian Summer here. A nice break from the snow and cold of recent days.
A NASA team has tested a space suit in a setting with extreme conditions akin to some of those found on Mars -- an Argentine base in Antarctica -- for possible use on a visit to the Red Planet.
The NDX-1 space suit, designed by Argentine aerospace engineer Pablo de Leon, endured frigid...
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A rocket carrying a satellite designed to help scientists study the Earth's climate suffered a technical failure and may have crashed into the southern Pacific Ocean.
Now NASA, which attempted to launch the rocket early Friday morning, has convened an investigative committee to figure out...
Why Did Neanderthals Have Such Big Noses?
For more than 100 years, scientists studying Neanderthals, humanity's closest known relative, have pondered one question: Why did they have such massive noses?
This isn't just a question of beauty. Scientists posited that the big snouts could...