Researchers from the Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have unveiled a neural network-based automated method for identifying heartbeat stars—a rare type of binary star system. Their findings are published in The Astronomical Journal. Go to...
The marimo (Aegagropila brownii), a nationally designated Special Natural Monument of Japan, inhabits Lake Akan in Hokkaido, where environmental conditions fluctuate drastically with the seasons. Of particular concern is the period immediately after ice melt in early...