Author - Ana Kiesse Zeleme

Meteorites on Mars

Lebanon Meteorite: NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover discovered this huge meteorite, called “Lebanon” on July 15th, 2014. A small piece of the meteorite, called “Lebanon B”, is allowed to be seen in the foreground. The cavities on the surface of the meteorite may have been cavities, once filled with olivine crystals, or, they may be...

The San Andreas Fault

What is the San Andreas Fault?The San Andreas Fault is the gliding boundary in between the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate. It slices California in 2 from Cape Mendocino to the Mexican border. Moreover, despite San Francisco’s legendary 1906 earthquake, the San Andreas Fault did not go through the city. However, neighborhoods...

AI Programmers Typically Ignore Security in Search of Innovation– How Do We Regulate Them Without Obstructing Progression?

AI Programmers Typically Ignore Security in Search of Innovation-- How Should We Regulate Them Without Obstructing Progression?Ever since artificial intelligence (AI) transitioned from concept to reality, r&d centers throughout the world have been rushing to find the next big innovation in AI.This competition is, in some cases, called the "AI race." However, in practice,...

The rate at which Antarctica’s Ice Shelves might be managed by an icy ‘glue’

This photograph from 2016 reveals a rift that widened even further and launched a large Delaware-sized iceberg from Antarctica's Larsen C ice sheet in the space of a few months. Credit rating: NASA/GSFC/OIBThe scientists have found an ice process that may have caused a Delaware-sized iceberg to break off Antarctica's massive Larsen and sea...

Breaking Down the Unusual Biology of the SARS-CoV-2 Delta Variant

A capability to construct a greater concentration of viral particulates in the airways of people and also abnormalities that would improve their ability to potentially infect human blood cells could be just what provides the Delta version with its transformational upside.Although SARS-CoV-2 is more capable than it has been before. Its newest expression, the...

How Decision Theory Can Help Guide Our Actions

With lots at stake in the Covid-19 pandemic, Professors Sylvia Richardson and Sir David Spiegelhalter look at just what we could possibly get out of the decision-making theory when deciding our next moves.The opinions were mixed on the wisdom of the wisdom of the decision to loosen all social distancing regulations in England from...

Artificial Intelligence Expert Designs New Theory for Decision Making

How should humans make decisions when the outcomes of their choices are uncertainty and unpredictably determined by the theory of probability?Such is the question posed by Prakash Shenoy, the Ronald G. Harper Distinguished Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Kansas School of Business.His resolution can be discovered in the brief article "An...

The Confessions of Saint Augustin

Bio of Saint-AugustinAugustine, who was born and raised at Thagaste, in eastern Algeria (then part of the Roman Empire), describes his boyhood surroundings as "wrong." He portrays college as a questionable site of discovery, focused toward material rather than spiritual aspirations. Augustine leads a libertine life, indulges in sexual experiences, and lives according to...

Italy Might Have Registered Europe’s Highest Temperature on Record

The Mediterranean heatwave has led to the spread of wildfires across southern Italy. Credit: REUTERSThe Italian island of Sicily may have registered the highest temperature ever recorded in Europe - 48.8C (119.8F)Regional authorities reported the reading, which the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) needs to verify, near Syracuse on Wednesday.According to the WMO, the present...