As ecosystem engineers, beavers build resilience into the landscape. Above ground, we can see changes wrought by beaver ponds ...

In Yellowstone National Park — where gray wolves were reintroduced starting in 1995 — researchers have gone back and forth on ...

Recently, a research team led by Professor Shuxiao Wang from the School of Environment at Tsinghua University integrated a comprehensive global natural archive database of mercury (Hg) accumulation ...

Changes in ecosystems have transformed the fishing industry, and that's bad news for whitefish in the Great Lakes. The fish is an important and popular commercial species, but its numbers in some of ...

For a long time, the core idea in reinforcement learning (RL) was that AI agents should learn every new task from scratch, like a blank slate. This "tabula rasa" approach led to amazing achievements, ...

Over the past decade, education technology has made rapid inroads into classrooms, both physical and virtual. From online videos and digital whiteboards to learning management systems and AI tutors, a ...