What is cloud seeding? And what’s really fueling California’s heavy rain

Heavy rain from a persistent atmospheric river pattern continues to impact California this week. Here's what's causing it.
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Rare double collision in Fomalhaut challenges planetary formation models

It is a rare occurrence indeed for a theory to be turned upside down by the cold accuracy of observation, until the Hubble Space Telescope has just dropped a bombshell in the young planetary system of ...

ALMA observations reveal multiscale fragmentation in massive star formation

Researchers from Yunnan University, the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the ...
Earth.com

Lemon-shaped exoplanet challenges planet formation theory

Astronomers have discovered a bizarre carbon-rich planet orbiting a neutron star, PSR J2322-2650b, with soot clouds and ...
IEEE

Point Cloud-Based End-to-End Formation Control Using a Two Stage SAC Algorithm

Abstract: This study develops a novel end-to-end formation strategy for leader-follower formation control of mobile robots that uses onboard LiDAR sensors in non-communication environments. The main ...
IEEE

Hierarchical Fusion Transformer for Multimodal Ground-Based Cloud Type Classification

Abstract: Existing methods for multimodal ground-based cloud type classification are dominated by convolutional neural networks, and it fails to capture long-range dependencies. In this article, we ...
The Boston Globe

Towering mothership clouds pop up across Northern New England

I received a handful of emails on Tuesday morning about towering, disk-shaped clouds popping up over the Northern New England mountains, looking like alien spaceships ready to join in on our ...