The COVID-19 pandemic is a fundamentally social and societal event. The virus spreads between people,…
European Satellite Data Shows Extreme Methane Emissions from Permian Oil & Gas Operations
Findings published today in the journal Science Advances show that oil and gas operations in America’s sprawling Permian Basin are releasing methane at twice the average rate found in previous studies of 11 other major…
Training Instance Segmentation Neural Network with Synthetic Datasets for Seed Phenotyping
In the midst of unprecedented climate change and population growth, the establishment of a method to rapidly create elite crop varieties via selective breeding is a matter of urgency to maintain the…
Study Shows Widely Used Machine Learning Methods Don’t Work as Claimed
Models and algorithms for analyzing complex networks are widely used in research and affect society at large through their applications in online social networks, search engines, and recommender systems. According to a…
UH Law Center Professors Urge Tighter Controls on Data Held by Health Tech Companies
In an article published in Science magazine, University of Houston Law Center Professors Jim Hawkins and Jessica L. Roberts call for stronger consumer safeguards to protect the privacy of personal information collected online…
Mapping the Landscape of Citizen Science
Science has moved beyond the lab. Researchers are using non-scientists more and more to help conduct their research and expand their reach. Everyday people are contributing their data, helping researchers learn more…
