A new technique enables an AI agent to be guided by data crowdsourced asynchronously from nonexpert human users as it learns to complete a task through reinforcement learning. The method trains the ...

Twenty feature points were selected on the constructed 2D road network map (Ahmed’s method, Figure 11a) and 3D road network map (paper method, Figure 11b) and used for quantitative evaluation of ...

Every time someone snaps a wildlife photo with iNaturalist, they might be fueling breakthrough science. From rediscovering lost species to helping conservation agencies track biodiversity and invasive ...

The brain of a fruit fly is so small that it can fit on the head of a pin. And yet, it is an inordinately complex object, encompassing nearly 140,000 neurons and 50 million synapses. It is no wonder, ...

A recent study published in the journal Science described a crowdsourced, open-science, and structure-enabled drug discovery program for the main protease (Mpro) of severe acute respiratory syndrome ...

The 5 Gyres Institute is starting its annual initiative to track amounts of trash in National Parks. Any visitor to national parks can help by recording data about the trash they see in any U.S. park ...