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After contentious meeting, French Market board replaces three longtime tenants with new shops
The corporation's vote comes as it has adopted a new approach to attracting tenants to the French Market, one that has sparked frustration and concern among existing business owners.
Trump signs proclamation he says will prevent future changes to Oval Office and Cabinet Room
Since returning to the White House, Trump has overseen numerous design changes to various rooms, including the Oval Office, where he has filled the wall space with portraits, a copy of the Declaration of Independence and numerous golden accents.
New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science Celebrates 40 years of discovery
By Sara Atencio-Gonzales, The Paper. – From prehistoric fossils to the mysteries of outer space, the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science has spent four decades bringing the state’s scientific history to life. Now, as the museum celebrates its 40th anniversary, staff members are reflecting on its evolution while preparing several special events…
New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science Celebrates 40 years of discovery
By Sara Atencio-Gonzales, The Paper. – From prehistoric fossils to the mysteries of outer space, the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science has spent four decades bringing the state’s scientific history to life. Now, as the museum celebrates its 40th anniversary, staff members are reflecting on its evolution while preparing several special events […]
24 businesses selected for Lahaina’s ʻUlu o Lele Marketplace ahead of Nov. 10 grand opening
The Hawaiian Council has selected 24 local businesses and food trucks to open at ʻUlu o Lele, Lahaina’s new interim marketplace and community gathering space, launching with a grand opening celebration on Nov. 10.
Former Spartans wide receiver released by Las Vegas Raiders
A former Spartans standout wide receiver is looking for a new team in the NFL
SpaceX and Tesla stock are tanking in the days after the blue wave
Shares of Musk's companies have cratered since Democrats swept the midterms, with concerns that a Tesla-SpaceX merger could now be more difficult.
Brazil Star Raphinha Signs New Contract With Barcelona Through 2030
Raphinha has agreed to a new contract with Barcelona that will keep the Brazil forward at the Spanish club through 2030.
Chinese scientists chill atoms to record low on Tiangong space station
Scientists brought thousands of rubidium atoms to less than 10 trillionths of a degree above absolute zero.
Record-low temperature created on China’s space station
With gravity's effects mitigated, atoms orbiting Earth on China’s space station reached about 10 trillionths of a kelvin.
'Blue Tsunami' warning sparks debate over Texas and businesses
Rep. Beth Van Duyne, R-Texas, joins 'Varney & Co' to discuss the midterm election results being described as a 'blue tsunami' in Texas and the potential impact of Democratic policies.
Tesla and SpaceX brace for political scrutiny as Elon Musk is targeted
Lou Basenese warns that targeting Elon Musk and his companies, including Tesla and SpaceX, could negatively impact 401(k) plans and pension funds. Lawmakers are scrutinizing government contracts, political donations, and widely held stocks.
Ask Your Business a Question, Get a Real Answer: VirtuMCP Brings Secure AI to Miami Beach Companies
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... VirtuWorks, a Coral Gables-based provider of managed IT services and cybersecurity, is bringing VirtuMCP to Miami Beach businesses. The secure gateway connects AI assistants such as Claude and Microsoft Copilot to the systems companies already run on, so owners can get answers from their own data without giving up […]
Everforth awarded potential $200M+ federal contract
Everforth ECS has secured a contract extension potentially worth more than $200 million to help the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.
German pension fund raided in probe of troubled real estate deals, including Chicago
At the heart of the probe are “loss making” investments by BVK in seven US real estate projects spanning Chicago, New York, Miami Beach, Beverly Hills and San Francisco.
Schottenstein Center teases mysterious orange news
The Schottenstein Center is back with another teaser. Orange you wondering what it is? All will be revealed on Nov. 6.
Schottenstein Center teases mysterious orange news
The Schottenstein Center is back with another teaser. Orange you wondering what it is? All will be revealed on Nov. 6.
GE Aerospace CEO Larry Culp on midterm results: Doesn't have a lot of impact on our business
GE Aerospace CEO Larry Culp sits down with CNBC's Morgan Brennan to discuss new product innovations, the midterm elections, and more.
SOBEWFF® TURNS UP THE HEAT FOR 2027 WITH A STAR-STUDDED LINEUP OF FOOD, ENTERTAINMENT AND NEW EXPERIENCES
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The nation’s biggest culinary celebration is back. The Food Network South Beach Wine & Food Festival presented by Capital One (SOBEWFF®) returns February 25-28, 2027, bringing together more than 500 chefs, culinary personalities and industry tastemakers for four days of extraordinary food, entertainment and wine and spirits exclusively provided […]
Kartoon Studios Files for $300 Million SPAC IPO Targeting Media and Entertainment Acquisitions
Kartoon Studios (NYSE American: TOON), a children’s and family entertainment company, announced that Kartoon Studios Acquisition Corp. (KSAC), a newly... Read More
L’Oréal’s evolving microdrama strategy puts entertainment over product
A Halloween effort for the marketer’s Urban Decay brand was produced, developed and distributed with ReelShort, a leading platform in the space.
Medicus Pharma proposes $135M SkinJect spinout through SPAC business combination
Medicus Pharma CEO Dr Raza Bokhari joined Steve Darling from Proactive to discuss a proposed transaction involving the company's wholly owned subsidiary, SkinJect, which has entered into a non-binding letter of intent with an undisclosed special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) for a potential business combination. The proposed transaction contemplates a US$135 million pre-money enterprise valuation for SkinJect, alongside a concurrent equity financing intended to support the company's SKNJCT-005 clinical study in patients with Gorlin syndrome and preparations for a potential New Drug Application (NDA). Bokhari told Proactive that the proposed deal is designed to establish SkinJect as a separately listed company focused on advancing its dermatology and rare-disease development program. Under the proposed structure, the SPAC would acquire 100% of SkinJect in exchange for newly issued common shares in the combined company. Medicus Pharma intends to retain majority economic and voting ownership, allowing existing Medicus shareholders to maintain significant participation in SkinJect's potential future value. The separation would also provide SkinJect with a dedicated financing platform to fund its clinical development activities, particularly the SKNJCT-005 study targeting Gorlin syndrome, a rare genetic condition associated with the development of multiple basal cell carcinomas. The concurrent financing is expected to support the clinical program and the work required to prepare and potentially submit a New Drug Application, subject to successful development and regulatory progress. Final ownership percentages have not yet been determined. These will depend on negotiations surrounding the definitive transaction agreement and the combined company's capitalization, including retained SPAC cash, public and sponsor shares, warrants and other potentially dilutive securities. Medicus said the proposed transaction remains subject to the completion of definitive documentation and other customary conditions. The planned spinout represents a strategic step in Medicus Pharma's efforts to give SkinJect a dedicated corporate and financial structure, while allowing the parent company to retain majority participation as the dermatology program advances towards its next clinical and regulatory milestones. #proactiveinvestors #nasdaq #mdcx #tsxv #mdcx #pharma #SkinJect #Biotechnology #Healthcare #RareDisease #GorlinSyndrome #Dermatology #SPAC #ClinicalTrials #DrugDevelopment #NDA #Biopharmaceuticals
Elon Musk picks Qualcomm to help deploy Starlink mobile phone service
Qualcomm inked a deal with SpaceX on Wednesday to provide telecommunication technology for its up-and-coming Starlink Mobile service. The multiyear agreement, whose terms were not disclosed, came hours before the
Porterville mental health center broadens horizons - The Sun-Gazette Newspaper
Hope Horizons Mental Health celebrates newest office on Morton Street with a grand opening and ribbon cutting ceremony
Cox Science Center Celebrates 65 Years
Cox Science Center & Aquarium celebrated its 65th anniversary with a Founders’ Day ceremony in West Palm Beach. Led by President and CEO Kurt Allen, the
Tuomas Iisalo Praises Olivier-Maxence Prosper’s Energy Against Pacers
Tuomas Iisalo praised Olivier-Maxence Prosper for always being ready and bringing energy after his seven-minute spark against Indiana.
Luka Doncic’s 3rd Straight 40-Point Game Sparks Lakers Against Kings to Continue 3-Game Winning Streak
Despite getting off to a slow start by his own standards Wednesday night against the Sacramento Kings, the NBA’s leading scorer this season, Luka Doncic, would come alive and lead his team to victory. Facing the injury-ridden and dysfunctional Kings, Doncic and the Los Angeles Lakers would shake off a lackluster shooting performance in the …
VOTE: When politics comes up at a family gathering, what do you do?
News4 NBC Reno covers news, sports, weather and traffic for the Reno, Nevada area including Sparks, Carson City, Virginia City, Silver City, Stagecoach, Silver Springs, Sun Valley, Cold Springs, Spanish Springs and Fenley, Nevada and Truckee and Tahoe City, California.
Tesla Optimus Rival Agility Robotics Begins Trading After SPAC Merger
Agility Robotics begins trading on Thursday after going public via a SPAC merger. Its humanoid robots will rival Tesla's unreleased Optimus units.
Last session tonight to weigh in on Heights Business District plan
Current business district proposal would allow buildings up to six stories and zero parking as incentives for developers The latest proposal for the Heights Business District offers “public benefit incentives,” which are conditional bonuses for developers. Developers can build up to six stories if they offer a public plaza, a public amenity, or first-and-second floor active commercial use. Developers will have no requirement to build parking spaces if they offer 60% ground-floor active commercial use, or if they preserve a historical facade. Those incentives and other parts of the plans will be discussed tonight, Nov. 5, when the Heights Neighborhood
How an FGCU class sparked a BBQ business breakthrough
Learn how an FGCU entrepreneurship class helped launch a Florida barbecue business success story
The Good, The Bad, The Ugly From Bulls' Blowout Loss To The Knicks
Backup guards sparkled, but a devastating injury to Jalen Smith and disastrous defensive mismatches against Jalen Brunson doomed Chicago to a humiliating blowout defeat at home.
Motorola Signature 27 goes official with true flagship specs and a $1,599 price tag
Motorola is officially back in the flagship space, with its new Signature 27 phone available for pre-order starting today, but...
Musk bet big on keeping Texas red. What happens to his business empire now?
Elon Musk poured nearly half a billion dollars into the midterms to support Republican candidates, most to help Ken Paxton defeat Democrat James Talarico in the Texas Senate race.
Zac Taylor Details DJ Turner, Cedric Johnson's Health After Team Arrival in Spain
Cincinnati is settled in Spain.
Vail Resorts facing a proxy fight over its board, business strategy
Oasis Management, which owns 10% of the resort operator’s stock, is calling for a strategic shift, saying “Vail Resorts has gone downhill”.
What the Democratic landslide means for GOP booster Elon Musk and his businesses
Tesla, SpaceX and X CEO Elon Musk reportedly spent close to $450 million backing Republican candidates. His companies could have challenging times ahead.
Alchemy Theatre presents 'Guys and Dolls' for three weekends
HUNTINGTON — With an array of great songs written by composer Frank Loesser and a book written by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows, the rollicking musical “Guys and Dolls” debuted
New Science Fiction and Fantasy
“The Subtle Art of Folding Space,” “Sublimation” and “Foundling Fathers” consider identity in worlds beyond our own.
China proves a cut above with world-first precision laser experiment in space
Researchers use a device mounted on the outside the Tiangong space station to make millimetre-scale cuts.
Brenda Lucas: Community news for Thursday, Nov. 5
Click for community news in the Huntington, West Virginia, and Tri-State area.
When papers become currency: a Chinese debate about trust in science
Last Saturday, 31 October, I went to the University of Hong Kong’s Beijing Centre for its Talent Forum. It was the fourth stop in the series this year, following events in Shanghai’s Zhangjiang, Shenzhen’s Qianhai, and on HKU’s main campus. The programme covered a remarkable distance in one afternoon. HKU’s Xiao-Jing Wang discussed computational neuroscience, intelligence, and the prefrontal cortex—before even delivering his inaugural public lecture to students back in Hong Kong. His colleague Bing Zhang took us from the Big Bang to artificial intelligence. Tsinghua’s Xue Lan asked how AI might reshape the institutional infrastructure underpinning higher education. There were lively panels featuring industry leaders from JD.com, Xiaomi, Haier—and Kaiser Y Kuo on the closing panel discussing innovation and international connections. I cannot pretend to have followed every detail of the brain models or the astrophysics. The talk that stayed with me was closer to something we have covered before: Zhou Zhonghe 周忠和 on papers, evaluation, and scientific trust. Zhou is a palaeontologist, an Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and an international member of the US National Academy of Sciences. He is also editor-in-chief of The Intellectual (知识分子), China’s leading science commentary platform. His subject was uncomfortable enough for a room full of successful academics: what happens when the system for recognising good science starts rewarding something else? Part of my interest came from our sister newsletter, The East is Read, which covered the controversy around “Geng Tongxue” in May. A PhD dropout from Beihang University, Geng has publicly challenged papers by prominent researchers through detailed online allegations of manipulated images and fabricated data. At Tongji University, an investigation into a challenged Nature paper found academic misconduct, and the dean of its life sciences school was removed. The affair brought doubts about academic integrity well beyond laboratories and university committees. How could someone outside the established hierarchy spot problems in papers that had passed through prestigious journals and institutions? And what, exactly, had all that prestige guaranteed? Zhou approached these questions through two essays published in July by The Intellectual: one by Wang Xiaodong, director of the National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing, and a response by Wang Liming, of Shanghai’s Shangsi Institute of Natural Sciences. Both began with the controversy over Geng. Their arguments deserve a wider audience, so I want to put parts of them alongside what Zhou said on Saturday. Wang Xiaodong’s starting point is evolution. A research system selects for the behaviour it rewards. Grants, jobs, journals, talent programmes, and prizes collectively determine which scientists prosper and which practices get passed down from advisors to students. “Whatever the system rewards is what it will evolve to produce,” he writes, citing the ancient Chinese saying: The King of Chu loved slender waists, and many in the palace starved to death. That is a more demanding diagnosis than saying there are dishonest people in science. Punishing a fraudster does not change the selective environment that made a particular kind of research profitable. His account also gives scientific success an awkward role in the story. As Zhou put it on Saturday, science became a victim of its own success. Once research became central to industry, national power, and economic growth, universities and laboratories expanded, and public money followed. That created an administrative need for rapid decisions: who should get the next grant, the next laboratory, the next appointment? The difficulty is that the true value of a discovery may take years or decades of testing and building to become clear. Resource allocation cannot wait that long. Publication counts, journal prestige, impact factors, and citations therefore become convenient ways to make an instant judgement. “The real problem is not that these indicators have no value,” Wang Xiaodong writes, “but that they are trying to answer a question that only time can answer.” Telling administrators simply to stop counting papers will never be enough. They still have budgets to distribute and appointments to make. Something has to replace the shortcut. Zhou described the consequences inside publishing. Papers acquire ever more requirements: a complete story, polished presentation, extensive datasets, and accessibility to readers beyond the immediate field. Individually, those demands sound reasonable. Together, he warned, they produce formulaic “eight-legged” papers 八股文 and rigid reviewing, while genuinely original or non-consensus work struggles to get past journal editors—some of whom wield immense gatekeeping power despite having limited laboratory experience themselves. Meanwhile, the demands for sprawling, “complete” narratives have fuelled a wider replication crisis. Wang Xiaodong uses a mahjong metaphor to describe the result: put the complex papers published by the exact same lab over several years side by side, and they often look like “Thirteen Orphans” (十三不靠)—every tile completely unrelated to the next, and none of them reproducible by outsiders. Zhou also spoke frankly as an editor who has trouble finding reviewers. Everyone wants someone else to review their work; qualified senior researchers have little time to return the favour. The labour is anonymous, unpaid, and brings almost no institutional recognition, so it increasingly gets passed down to postdocs and graduate students. And while anonymity protects reviewers from rank and personal favours, hyper-specialisation means an author’s most qualified reviewer is often a direct competitor, shielded from accountability. The protection and the problem coexist. Wang Liming takes the argument a step further. The decisive change, in his essay, is the instant conversion of academic honour into material resources. Once a paper can be cashed in for funding, a job, students, commercial investment, or even a company valuation, scientists are alienated from their work: they must keep minting this “research currency” to keep their teams alive. He is careful not to romanticise the past. The old world of gentleman scientists—financially independent figures like Boyle and Darwin who needed nothing from external funders—was also a closed club that excluded people without inherited wealth, women, and much of humanity outside the West. Professional science allowed ordinary people, himself included, to become researchers. Nobody should want to undo that. The problem, in his account, is an exchange system that becomes too uniform and too difficult to correct. His most pointed Chinese example is the “hat” (帽子): the prestigious talent designation that brings continuing access to money, laboratory space, students, and institutional influence. “If papers are the circulating currency of the research system, then a ‘hat’ is a bond that pays interest over the long term,” he writes. A paper at least requires another round of peer review. A title in the Chinese context can lock in a judgement made years ago and turn it into permanent status rent, regardless of whether its holder is still doing good science. Here, official institutions hire, organise, and evaluate scientists. Unlike honours awarded by autonomous academic communities in the West, a Chinese “hat” blends non-scientist administrative power with state authority. Once granted, it turns a past judgement into permanent status rent that is nearly impossible to revoke—because taking a hat off would imply that official authority erred in putting it on. Both Wangs see China as experiencing, at compressed speed, pressures present across global science. Research expansion, rising investment, publication growth, and elaborate evaluation metrics arrived in China within two or three decades rather than two or three centuries. Zhou agreed with that international framing—noting that recent US White House science policy documents and the new president of the US National Academy of Sciences, a fellow palaeontologist who recently visited Zhou’s institute in Beijing, have raised strikingly similar warnings about consensus-bound peer review, short-term project grants, and the replication crisis. Still, Zhou emphasised that China’s traditional hierarchy, personal networks (guanxi), and the ethos that “a good scholar becomes an official” (学而优则仕) amplify those pressures at home. So what would change things? Here Zhou’s tone differed from the call for a revolution in scientific trust in Wang Xiaodong’s essay. As an evolutionary biologist, Zhou favoured patchwork repair (修修补补). Living systems survive through accumulated adjustments; dramatic mutations are usually fatal. Science cannot return to a small, slow-moving pastoral era, especially after the successive accelerations of professionalisation after the Second World War, the internet, and now artificial intelligence. But it can alter the local environment in which researchers work. He pointed to domestic experiments designed to support unconventional research and diversify funding, including Tencent’s New Cornerstone Investigator Program, the Xplorer Prize, and the Future Science Prize. He also mentioned participating in reviews for “major non-consensus projects” under the National Natural Science Foundation of China. One guiding principle he recalled was wonderfully direct: “Failure is allowed; corruption is not” (允许失败，不允许腐败). That distinction would mean quite a lot if taken seriously. An honest attempt that fails should not have to disguise itself as a success to survive an assessment. Wang Liming’s essay adds a sharp caveat to the optimism about new domestic funders. Multiple organisations do not automatically produce multiple ways of judging science. If the same pool of senior domestic scientists makes the decisions through the same two-round review procedures, it is still “fake diversity.” He argues for three distinct kinds of money: broad baseline funding governed by fair procedures; patient funding for questions that take ten years; and non-consensus funding based on individual taste, deliberately empowering a few genuine experts to make biased, contrarian bets on eccentric ideas that would inevitably be averaged out by a committee. Replacing one monopoly with another achieves little; a healthy ecosystem needs variance. Zhou’s proposals for publishing were similarly concrete: strip papers of their resource-allocation burden and return them to recording discoveries and establishing priority; separate dissemination from evaluation, as eLife and Peer Community In do; adopt more modular “micro-publications” and real-name endorsements; recognize the labour of editors and reviewers; and give replication work proper credit rather than treating it as an unpublishable dead end. AI makes every part of this debate more urgent—and Zhou wove it throughout his talk. In his own preparation, he used AI to survey the declining influence of academic monographs, noting how tools are already changing how scholars gather information. More fundamentally, he placed AI as the latest great acceleration in scientific history: just as the internet sped up the pace of research and tightened external resource pressures, AI is compressing the cycle again. In the essays Zhou cited, AI cuts both ways. Wang Xiaodong expects large language models to erase much of the English-writing disadvantage long faced by Chinese scientists, further swelling the flood of papers coming out of Chinese labs. Wang Liming sees AI accelerating both ends of the trust crisis: it lowers the cost of paper mills and fabricated images just as quickly as it lowers the cost of automated image forensics, data auditing, and code reproduction. “Whoever builds the verification layer wins,” Wang Liming writes. His proposed alternative to the static, packaged “story paper” is a continuously versioned “unit of discovery” containing a falsifiable claim, raw data, analysis code, experimental parameters, and an ongoing log of independent checks—where negative results and failed replications are recorded rather than buried. Zhou ended his keynote by bringing AI back to the question of scientific honour and credit. Citing a recent Intellectual discussion on “What AI Means for Mathematics” featuring Fields Medalist Deng Yu 邓煜—at a moment when AI is already batch-solving mathematical conjectures, as HKU Vice-President Lin Chen noted in his opening remarks—Zhou agreed that human researchers must remain the principal agents: AI is a tool that frees scientists from tedious calculation to think about deeper, messier real-world problems. Yet that partnership creates a thorny new evaluation problem. When a breakthrough is made with AI, what is the human contribution and what is the machine’s? And since AI models distil centuries of accumulated human scholarship, is it right that the credit and value flow so heavily to the private AI companies building the tools? The old struggle over how to assign scientific honour is acquiring a whole new layer. What I took away was a serious discussion of how science can remain trustworthy as its scale, incentives, and tools change. These were scientists with real standing inside China’s system questioning how that standing is produced, and proposing changes that would affect their own institutions and peers. That made the afternoon at HKU’s Beijing Centre worthwhile. At the close, Wang Feng, Director of Communications and Public Affairs at HKU, said the value of the forum series—which heads to Hangzhou in December and cities like Chengdu early next year—would lie in the real cooperation it helped bring about. The university has plenty to celebrate: this week it topped the QS Asia rankings for a second consecutive year, alongside its 11th-place position in the QS World University Rankings 2027. For me, bringing this debate to an audience beyond the people who review papers and allocate grants was a useful contribution. 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Michigan State’s Alessio Milivojevic questionable for rivalry clash with Wolverines
Michigan football could receive a major boost ahead of its highly anticipated rivalry clash against Michigan State, with Spartans quarterback Alessio Milivojevic listed as questionable for the matchup. College football insider Pete Thamel reported that the Spartans could potentially be without their starting quarterback for Saturday’s crucial […] The post Michigan State’s Alessio Milivojevic questionable for rivalry clash with Wolverines appeared first on ClutchPoints.
World Market opens Spokane Valley location
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Imaging Science Thesis Defense: A Step Towards Developing Digital Twins of Forest Environments with Terrestrial Laser Scanning | Events
Imaging Science MS Thesis Defense A Step Towards Developing Digital Twins of Forest Environments with Terrestrial Laser Scanning Zoom Link here Aisha Co Imaging Science MS Candidate Rochester Institute of Technology Abstract: Digital twins have become an increasingly relevant topic as we pursue accurate representations of the real world for planning, research, and even design purposes. This study focuses on the steps for creating digital twins of forest environments using sparse points from terrestrial light detection and ranging (LiDAR). Specifically, we developed geometric models of structural digital twins (SDTs) from leaf-off terrestrial laser scanning of real-world forests. Three algorithms were used to develop an approach to handle individual tree reconstructions for sparse point clouds, and they were tested and validated with a two-sample Kolmogorov-Smirnov statistic against an existing inventory of the RIT Nature Trail to evaluate the reconstruction’s fidelity. The key evaluation metrics included diameter at breast height (DBH) and height. The limited nature of available ground truth necessitated the use of an additional validation method using a PANGAEA open dataset, based on comparing DBH, height, and crown diameter against the dataset’s calculated measurements. Reconstructions were compared against per-tree reference values at two-point spacings for sixteen trees from the open BR07 dataset (PANGAEA); these specifications matched the collected RIT Nature Trail data and the scanner’s nominal spacing. On BR07, the proposed method had the lowest median DBH error among the methods that modeled every tree (1.28cm, 4.1%), and this error was nearly unchanged at the coarser spacing, while TreeQSM’s rose from 4.2% to 6.5% and AdTree overestimated DBH by 30% to 40%. Results show the proposed method understates the tree heights by 0.2m to 1.4m but contains the least error when estimating DBH. The proposed method was able to produce all 69 trees, while SimpleTree produced 49 and none at the 4.35 cm BR07 spacing. We concluded that the developed geometric model (digital) twins have significant potential to serve as both simulation and prediction tools. We recommend that future efforts focus on collecting per-tree ground truth measurements within the scanned plot and incorporating leaf-on scans. Leaf-on scans include representative foliage, which would add realism to the model and ecological function of the trees. Intended Audience: Beginners, undergraduates, graduates. Those with interest in the topic. To request an interpreter, please visit myaccess.rit.edu
Louisiana Senate race raises questions about state’s political identity
Democrat Jamie Davis’s narrow loss to Republican Julia Letlow in Louisiana’s Senate race sparks discussions about whether the state is shifting from solid red to a potential swing state.
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Local writers earn National Entertainment Journalism Awards finalist spots
Telling local stories that matter and are award-worthy.
Five Plays: Stanford First Quarter
Louisville started the game with an unbelievable script, attacking the edges of Stanford’s defense. They ran some option plays and a nice swing pass to Isaac Brown early on, looking to get their fast players into space against a Stanford defense that is not very athletic. I really like that they also looked to take […]
A NASA space telescope plunged back to Earth after a mission that lasted 11 times longer than planned
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Swift has fallen: NASA's 22-year-old space telescope burns up over Sumatra
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Pike County Clerk demands answers, transparency after employee health insurance dropped
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Democrat surge brings changes to South Carolina politics
The results of Tuesday’s elections will bring major changes to Washington and the South Carolina State House.
Colorado Running Back Richard Young to Start Against Arizona State
Fresh off a dominant 120-yard performance against Kansas State, the Alabama transfer looks to anchor the Go-Go offense and spark the Buffaloes' late-season push toward bowl eligibility.
Artemis II geologist talks historic lunar science mission
Megan Borel, a geologist for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)’s Artemis II lunar science team, delivered a talk titled “The Moon Joy of Artemis” hosted by the departments of geology and physics Oct. 29 in Fowler Hall. Geology professor Nikki Seymour said she knew Borel previously and organized the talk. Seymour said her […]
Startup targets new pain point: nighttime | Investors Lab
It's our job to report on investment-worthy innovations coming to market. That doesn't mean we always believe they're in the best interests of the planet. Case in point: a new space-tech project that aims to solve the "problem" of nighttime. With their planned constellation of orbiting satellites equipped with giant mirrors that would beam sunlight to the night side of Earth on demand, the company behind the invention is attracting investors. SN's Lisa Grossman enlightens us.
Elon Musk poured millions into Texas Republican campaigns that lost. What’s next for his Texas dream?
Musk, whose company SpaceX relocated its headquarters to Texas, had publicly stated the company left California for its politics. He may not do the same in Texas, but his bully pulpit is a bit smaller in a democratic Lone Star State.
STEM School Highlands Ranch vs. Aurora Science & Tech: Colorado High School Girls Basketball, Dec. 10, 2026
STEM School Highlands Ranch at Aurora Science & Tech, Colorado high school girls basketball, Dec. 10, 2026, 7:15 PM. Records, rosters and head-to-head.
Golden View Classical Academy vs. Aurora Science & Tech: Colorado High School Girls Basketball, Jan. 7, 2027
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Aspirus Merrill Hospital celebrates 100 years while investing in local health care
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Addus Sees ‘Green Spaces’ in Hospice, Home Health M&A
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Is Miami Heat's Bam Adebayo A Trade Candidate?
As chemistry issues mount between Bam Adebayo and Giannis Antetokounmpo, the Miami Heat's slow start is sparking rumors that the franchise center could become the NBA’s next blockbuster trade piece.
Councilmembers demand DA drop charges against Queens man shot by police during mental health crisis
Over a dozen city councilmembers this week called on Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz to drop the felony charges her office has brought against Jabez Chakraborty, the 22-year-old who was shot by police in his family’s home while experiencing a mental health crisis in January.
Gillian Anderson & Rebecca Hall To Spar In Thriller 'The Portrait'
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NH office construction pipeline runs thin
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SpaceX Starship Will Need To Re-Fuel 22 Times In Space To Make It To The Moon
The total number of times that any rocket has ever done this is zero.
Earth Science Tech (ETST) Wins Through the Inherent Operating Leverage of Its ‘Conglomerate’ Business Model
Austin, Texas, November 4th, 2026, FinanceWireEarth Science Tech (OTCQB: ETST) is a strategic holding company that brings together innovative businesses across the healthcare, pharmacy, technology and telemedicine, real estate, and consumer products spaces. Its primary operating strategy is to cont…
This viral Jarome Iginla video exposed his health issues
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Pennsylvania Flips Senate, Secures Cannabis Legalization Trifecta
The state’s Democrats gained control of the upper chamber for the first time in more than three decades, paving the way to legalize adult-use cannabis.
Yellow Light Coffee & Donuts plans downtown Detroit for next location
The business is taking over the former Dilla’s Delights space in Harmonie Park for its third space.
Michigan State at Michigan Football: Final Score Prediction
Two struggling offenses and powerhouse defenses collide under the Big House lights as the Spartans seek a desperate upset against Tommy Carr’s favored Wolverine squad.
Essentia Health supports new playground at Clinton-Graceville-Beardsley elementary school
Clinton-Graceville-Beardsley (CGB) Schools was excited to show off the new playground at its elementary school during a Sept. 21 open house, and is grateful for a $20,000 contribution from Essentia Health that went toward the purchase of new equipment, supporting a safe and active space for the district’s youngest students.
The Growing Utility of LIBS in Science
Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) is being used in numerous application areas, including environmental monitoring, cultural heritage, and space exploration.
Nadal set to join Real Madrid board of directors
Tennis great Rafael Nadal is set to join the board of Spanish football giants Real Madrid.
Fortnite's Ultra-Rare Pirate Shop Token Hunt Sparks Wave of Profiteering and eBay Listings
Fortnite Players Are Doing Things Epic Would Probably Prefer They Didn't to Try to Get the Ultra Rare Pirate Shop Token.
Data center memes flood X after Democrats' 2026 midterm wins
Democratic wins sparked data center memes on X, including a post from Elon Musk, as voters push for more limits on the AI infrastructure boom.
More Segunda matches postponed: Andorra-Mallorca also called off ❌
This weekend’s match between FC Andorra and RCD Mallorca has been officially postponed. The sporting authorities and both clubs have agreed to call off the fixture amid the shock gripping Spanish fo...
Daniel McCarthy: A slippery slope to criminalizing politics
Politics has high enough stakes without the losers being sent to prison – or losing their heads.
How space weather shapes young planets
Scientists suspect powerful solar flares helped strip away the atmospheres of planets like Mars. A Michigan State University researcher is now searching for evidence of how those same forces shape planets beyond our solar system. Adina Feinstein, assistant professor of physics and astronomy, believes exoplanets are the key to understanding the early days of our solar system. This week, she received a Schmidt Sciences FirstLight grant to investigate how space weather influences young planets.
Ranking Member Lofgren Announces She Will Seek Chair of House Science Committee as Democrats Win Control of Congress
The House Committee on Science, Space and Technology
Sydney's new $641m Powerhouse arts and science museum to open amid crisis
Due to open on 7 November, the space is mired in controversy as senior executives stand aside during an ongoing misconduct and procurement investigation
Bridge near Business 85/I-26 interchange to close Nov. 9
Repairs to the bridge over Fairforest Creek on Zimmerman Road/College Drive are expected to be complete by the end of the year.
Rafa Nadal joins Real Madrid's board of directors 🎾
Real Madrid has officially announced the appointment of Rafa Nadal to its board of directors. The club has thus formalized the arrival of one of Spanish sport’s greatest legends to its governing bod...
“Embarrassing for the Committee Tonight”: Fans Aren’t Buying CFP Chairman’s Reasoning as Notre Dame Gets #11 Ranking
Notre Dame’s No. 11 position in the first College Football Playoff rankings has sparked a debate, with fans questioning the selection committee’s reasoning.
Tenerife to hold memorial service for De Miguel on Saturday
Spain's CD Tenerife will hold a memorial service to bid farewell to their late forward Jesús de Miguel on Saturday, the second division club said in a statement. All fans are invited to attend a mass, which will be held at the Heliodoro Rodríguez López stadium.
'Richard Avedon: Hollywood' is now on view at Gagosian in L.A.
A new exhibit at Gagosian, 'Richard Avedon: Hollywood,' features more than 120 images, spanning from 1947 to the year Avedon died in 2004.
Berks Nature to Launch New Mental Health Effort
During the 18th annual State of the Environment Breakfast, Berks Nature will introduce the first tool in what the nonprofit envisions as a multidisciplinary community partnership to help local youth find peace, healing, and connection in nature: a map of Reading’s 50+ parks, playgrounds, and green spaces.
“Bro Really Said the New Standard is Mediocrity”: Fans Troll Dabo Swinney as he Proudly Makes “Six Wins” Claim for Clemson
Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney has sparked a debate after highlighting the program’s record of consistency. Speaking ahead of the Tigers’ upcoming matchup against Syracuse, Swinney pointed out that Clemson is chasing its sixth win of the 2026 season.
Bobby Brown Returns to CSA to Drive Defense Business Growth
The former Astrion and Cubic executive brings Navy, missile defense and space capture experience back to the company.
Signant Health unveils SignalSpace for clinical trials
Signant Health has launched Signant SignalSpace, a centralised environment for clinical trial data and workflows.
International Politicians React to Democrats Winning US Midterms
Nov 4 (Reuters) - Governments and politicians around the world reacted to the Democrats winning the US midterm elections, a result that could have major implications for global trade, security and energy prices. Here is a selection of the reaction: SPAIN PRIME MINISTER PEDRO SANCHEZ ON X
Brenda Lucas: Community news for Wednesday, Nov. 4
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Jesus de Miguel, the Spanish striker whose tragic death has shocked football
The 30-year-old striker died following an on-field collision with an opposition goalkeeper in a Spanish second division match on Monday
‘Enraging’: WA residents despair as insurance premiums climb again
SEATTLE — Kate Neville is dreading the new year. As a freelance grant writer, Neville has to buy her own health insurance, and for years her premiums have been climbing.
Star Health's Arogya Seva Kendra clinics cross 1.8+ lakh beneficiary visits within a year of their inception, bringing free primary healthcare to communities across 9 states
Star Health and Allied Insurance Company Limited (NSE: STARHEALTH) (BSE: 543412), India's leading standalone health insurer, has been safeguarding the health and well-being of millions of Indians for over 20 years through a strong focus on customer-centricity, transparency, and innovation. Reflecting its commitment to creating lasting social impact, Star Health's CSR initiatives focus on improving health outcomes through accessible healthcare, preventive interventions, and community wellness pro
Colorado measure banning transgender athletes from gendered sports is too close to call
Proposition 134 would prohibit athletes it defines as male from playing on female sports teams, though it provides exceptions for athletes it defined as female who want to play on boys teams
Democrat J.D. Ford wins election to U.S. House in Indiana's 5th Congressional District
In an upset that many analysts did not see coming, Democratic nominee J.D. Ford defeated three-term Rep. Victoria Spartz in Indiana’s 5th Congressional District in Tuesday's election.
Letters: Credit card change could hurt small businesses
I recently read an op-ed in this newspaper arguing that the Durbin-Marshall credit card mandates would ease pressure on Louisiana businesses and keep our economy growing. As an entrepreneur, I