Light in the forest: Computer simulations show increased tree diversity from competition for canopy light

If a tree falls in the forest, it can create an opening for more incoming light, and that makes a significant impact on the surrounding environment, according to new research. An international science ...
Scientific Research Publishing

Cybersecurity and Forensic Audio Analysis: Deepfake Detection Based on Mfcc, Audio-Text Disconsistency, and Prosodic Features ()

1 Department of Computer and Instructional Technologies Education, Gazi Faculty of Education, Gazi University, Ankara, Türkiye. 2 Department of Forensic Informatics, Institute of Informatics, Gazi ...
Open Heart

Artificial intelligence-based clustering to identify functional risk phenotypes in heart failure

Background Patients with heart failure (HF) frequently suffer from undetected declines in cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF), which significantly increases their risk of poor outcomes. However, current ...
Scientific Research Publishing

A Hybrid Machine Learning Framework for Early Diabetes Prediction in Sierra Leone Using Feature Selection and Soft-Voting Ensemble ()

A Hybrid Machine Learning Framework for Early Diabetes Prediction in Sierra Leone Using Feature Selection and Soft-Voting Ensemble ...
IEEE

Anomaly Detection Workflow Using Random Forest Regressor in Large-Scale Photovoltaic Power Plants

Abstract: In large-scale photovoltaic (PV) plants, anomalies can affect performance, and maintenance schedules, and compromise long-term reliability, reducing the financial returns from the PV plant.
IEEE

Enhancing Random Forest Using Genetic Algorithm for Lifelong Machine Learning

Abstract: Learning over time for machine learning (ML) models is emerging as a new field, often called continual learning or lifelong Machine learning (LML). Today, deep learning and neural networks ...
Ars Technica

Meet Veronika, the tool-using cow

Far Side fans might recall a classic 1982 cartoon called “Cow Tools,” featuring a cow standing next to a jumble of strange objects—the joke being that cows don’t use tools. That’s why a pet Swiss ...
Reuters

Iran battles fire in UNESCO-listed forest, gets Turkey's help

DUBAI, Nov 22 (Reuters) - Iran has sought help to fight a devastating fire in UNESCO-listed forests in its north, with neighbouring Turkey sending firefighting planes, Iran's top environmental ...
Reuters

To make progress on deforestation at COP30, countries must be paid to keep forests standing

November 17 - More than 30 years after the world first came together in Brazil to tackle climate change, global temperatures are still rising and so is impatience with talk over action. Citizens ...
The Conversation

COP30: Governments must empower forest communities to keep fossil fuels underground

University of British Columbia provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation CA. University of British Columbia provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA-FR. Brazilian President ...
WRAL

Wake Forest man accused of defrauding Duke Energy out of almost $500K using living, dead customers

A Wake Forest man was arrested Tuesday following a fraud investigation affecting Duke Energy accounts. According to a news release, on July 22, 2025, Duke Energy representatives reached out to the ...
InfoWorld

The best new features and fixes in Python 3.14

Official support for free-threaded Python, and free-threaded improvements Python’s free-threaded build promises true parallelism for threads in Python programs by removing the Global Interpreter Lock ...