Plastic pollution is not just in oceans and soil. Scientists have now found enormous amounts of microscopic plastic floating ...

Over the last 20 years, scientists have come to recognize microplastics (MPs) and nanoplastics (NPs) as a growing form of ...

Over the past two decades, microplastics (MPs) and nanoplastics (NPs) have been recognized as emerging pollutants, detected ...

According to Kent Online, a damaged filter screen at a water treatment plant in Eastbourne, England, resulted in around 11 tons of plastic beads washing up on over 40 miles of shore. Volunteers, along ...

How do you figure out where sufficient vegetation cover is on a piece of land? How do you create a detailed map of topographic details? Or show the scourge of erosion in a region? Well, prior to today ...

Right now, an estimated 130 million metric tons of plastic waste enters the air, water, soil, and human bodies every year. By 2040, that number will jump to 280 million metric tons—about a garbage ...

Abstract: Robot end-effector positioning based on non-cooperative marker detection is a key step in achieving automatic drilling of carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP), for which a vision-based ...

Enterprises today are expected to have at least 6-8 detection tools, as detection is considered a standard investment and the first line of defense. Yet security leaders struggle to justify dedicating ...

Abstract: Code smells violate best practices in software development that make code difficult to understand and maintain. Code smell detection tools help practitioners detect maintainability issues ...

ABSTRACT: Marine plastic pollution is a pressing environmental threat, making reliable automation for underwater debris detection essential. However, vision systems trained on one dataset often ...

The exotic pet trade can be blamed for the invasion of the Burmese python in the United States. ©Heiko Kiera/Shutterstock.com The Burmese python (Python bivittatus) is native to Southeast Asia but ...