4+ hour, 51+ min ago   (299+ words) Because nitrogen fixation is critical for life as we know it, scientists believe that nitrogenase must have evolved early in life's history, at a time when only single-celled microorganisms existed." By looking at the N-isotope record, scientists can thereby estimate…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (325+ words) In 2021, a team from NASA's Ames Research Center in California's Silicon Valley created ExoMiner, a piece of open-source software that used artificial intelligence (AI) to validate 370 new exoplanets from Kepler data. Now, the team has created a new version of…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago   (390+ words) Editor's Note:This article was updated Aug. 20, 2025, to correct the number of years of training data used and the model accuracy. The original article said the model was trained on 14 years of Solar Dynamics Observatory data and surpassed existing benchmarks…...

6+ mon, 2+ week ago   (823+ words) Now, scale that problem to scientific research. Instead of sneakers, think "aerosol optical depth" or "sea surface temperature." Instead of a handful of retailers, it is thousands of researchers, instruments, and data providers. Without a common language for describing data,…...