Birch leaves and peanuts turned into advanced laser technology

Physicists at Umeå University, in collaboration with researchers in China, have developed a laser made entirely from biomaterials—birch leaves and peanut kernels. The environmentally friendly laser ...
GitHub

DeepSeek-VL2: Mixture-of-Experts Vision-Language Models for Advanced Multimodal Understanding

Note: You may need 80GB GPU memory to run this script with deepseek-vl2-small and even larger for deepseek-vl2.

The Home Depot’s Hottest Gifts of 2025

The Home Depot has what you need for the DIYer, tool enthusiast, outdoors lover, and home decorator in your life.
The Cool Down

Researchers deploy high-tech drones for crucial task in forest: 'Could become a model'

Nature and technology have joined forces as researchers in Germany deploy tree-monitoring drones. Their drone system oversees and protects Stuttgart's oldest trees from climate impacts. The green-tech ...
IEEE

Coarse-to-Fine Separation of Wood and Leaf From MLS Street Tree Point Clouds Using Branch Tilt Prior and Enhanced Shortest Path Tracing

Abstract: Trees play a crucial role in promoting green, ecological, and low-carbon cities, with street trees being essential for urban roadways. Understanding the 3-D structure and biological ...