A new AI machine learning technique helped historians analyze 76,000 pages from astronomy textbooks spanning nearly two centuries.

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Astronomy is one of the oldest sciences, and one which has repeatedly led to fundamental changes in our view of the world. This book covers the history of our study of the cosmos from prehistory ...

A team of computer scientists, astronomers and historians in Berlin has used machine-learning applications to learn more ...

NASA selects two proposals for missions to observe X-ray and far-infrared wavelengths of light from space for additional ...

The first decades of the twentieth century, among the most productive in the history of astronomy, would supply both. A way of using variable stars—stars that changed their light output in a ...

groups of buildings and/or sites which are of ‘outstanding universal value from the point of view of history, art or science’. A Thematic Initiative for the identification and promotion of the ...

It will have simultaneously mastered physics, chemistry, biology, materials science, mathematics, medicine, astronomy, ...

Discovering the solar system and the Milky Way is an exciting experience for children. A number of sites offer fun and ...