Here’s what the hole in a safety pin is really for

You'll never look at a humble safety pin the same way again ...

How a SC riverkeeper’s detective work reveals a deeper tale about the carpet industry's PFAS legacy

Congaree Riverkeeper Bill Stangler traced PFAS "forever chemicals" to Shaw Industries' South Carolina carpet plant on the Lower Saluda River in Irmo.
Nature

Machine learning articles from across Nature Portfolio

Machine learning is the ability of a machine to improve its performance based on previous results. Machine learning methods enable computers to learn without being explicitly programmed and have ...
IEEE

TUTNet - A Segmentation Network for Fabric Sewing Thread in the Texture Background

Abstract: Sewing thread segmentation can help locate the defects in fabric sewing process, which is a challenging problem in factory quality control. In this paper, we propose a twin U-shaped ...