The White House's Christmas tree is slated to be cut and transported from a North Carolina farm on Wednesday .

The farm lost thousands of trees to a mudslide, but many more survived, including a 20-foot conical tree.

The biggest challenge for farmers across western North Carolina has been fixing infrastructure on their property.

The tree will be presented to the First Lady Jill Biden in front of the White House in December .

It will be decorated in the Blue Room .

The farm has some obstacles to overcome, including finding places to buy seedlings after Helene devastated some greenhouses.

It's been a tough year because of Helene , and harvest season is already difficult enough.

AI models can already find brain tumors in MRI images almost as well as a human radiologist.

AI is particularly promising in radiology, where waiting for technicians to process medical images can delay patient treatment.

The first network had an average accuracy of 85.99% at detecting brain cancer, the other had an accuracy rate of 83.85% ..

New research can identify more proteins, or biomarkers, in blood plasma, including those linked to specific diseases like cancer.

By identifying these biomarkers earlier, medical researchers can create better diagnostic tests and drugs that target diseases sooner.

The new method reduces interference from the most common proteins in blood, allowing researchers to detect lesser-known, low-abundance proteins that are often crucial in identifying diseases.

Astronomers used data from the James Webb Space Telescope to uncover an example of a previously hypothetical phenomenon known as an "Einstein zig-zag" The newly confirmed effect was discovered among six identical copies of a luminous quasar.

The light from a distant object appears to get bent as it passes through warped space-time that has been pulled out of shape by gravitational lensing.

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Southwest Research Institute wins $60 million contract to build three coronagraphs.

SwRI will design, develop, build and test coronags for the Lagrange 1 Series project.

Coronagraphs gather data for NOAA ’s Space Weather Prediction Center.

NOAA issues forecasts, alerts and warnings of geomagnetic activity like the May 10 and 11 storms.

New study adds further support to the veracity of the standard cosmological model.

It also makes a calculation of the Hubble constant—how fast the universe is expanding—with a new method.

The study was conducted by UC Davis researchers and colleagues in the South Pole Telescope collaboration, led by the University of Chicago .

Their prediction is consistent with the prediction made using the cosmic microwave background intensity maps measured by the Planck satellite.

The team's new prediction is precise enough to be discrepant with the supernovae measurements at very high statistical significance.

It aligns more with the rate of expansion predicted by the standard cosmological model.

Anopheles stephensi is an invasive species of mosquito that thrives in urban areas and is immune to insecticide.

It thrives year-round in urban settings, breeding in man-made water storage tanks, gutters or even air conditioning units.

Africa accounted for about 95% of the 249 million malaria cases and 608,000 deaths worldwide in 2022 , according to WHO .

New research shows cells are capable of complex learning typically associated with nervous systems.

Learning occurs when the response to a non-rewarding stimulus reduces in magnitude the more it is repeated.

Finding opens up an exciting new mystery for us: How do cells without brains manage something so complex?".

The Texas A&M University Space Institute will re-create the moon and Mars .

The four -story facility will have the equivalent of two indoor football fields.

It will help develop rovers, spacesuits and other new technologies.

Construction is slated to begin in January and wrap up in October 2026 .

The Earth lost 290 cubic miles ( 1,200 cubic km ) of freshwater in 2015 , or 250% of Lake Erie’s volume.

Eight years later , the lost water has not been replenished, even after the relative cooling of the 2020 to 2023 La Niña cycle.

The near-decade of drying coincides with the nine warmest years in the modern climate record, making a strong case that the freshwater loss is a direct result of climate change.

13 of the 30 worst droughts observed by the GRACE satellites since 2002 occurred in 2015 or later.

Droughts are believed to have been exacerbated by climate change-related evaporation.

Intense drying began in northern and central Brazil in 2014 , followed by similar conditions in Australia , Southeast Asia .