Starting this month, you can be part of a project to create more detailed satellite-based global maps of land cover by sharing photos of the world around you in a new NASA citizen science project.
Environment
Sep 12, 2018
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French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire called Thursday for EU leaders to heed a "wake-up call" on a plan to tax US technology giants, amid signs of growing resistance to the French-led initiative.
Business
Sep 6, 2018
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Social media was recently credited with reducing the number of casualties caused by air strikes in the Syrian civil war. The early warning system, developed by tech startup Hala Systems, uses remote sensors to detect aircraft ...
Internet
Aug 23, 2018
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Conservationists from Fauna & Flora International (FFI) and Bucknell University biology researchers have teamed up with government and conservation authorities to capture more than 425,000 images through a camera wildlife ...
Ecology
Aug 22, 2018
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Among pet snakes and lizards, the biggest-selling species are also the most likely to be released by their owners—and to potentially become invasive species, according to a Rutgers study published today in the Journal of ...
Ecology
Aug 22, 2018
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Building on a map that shows hundreds of thousands of microscopic images of human cells, an international research team is working with the gaming community and with artificial intelligence to gain a more granular understanding ...
Biotechnology
Aug 21, 2018
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Online "citizen science" data initiatives may be able to help map the distribution of rare species in the wild, according to a study published August 8 in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Yifu Wang of McGill University ...
Ecology
Aug 8, 2018
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Log on to your laptop. Start swotting up on sea life. Millions of everyday Australians are being encouraged to take a 'dry dive' on the Great Barrier Reef, as part of a first-of-its-kind, citizen science project.
Environment
Aug 6, 2018
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Susan Hewitt found a special prize recently while wandering the streets of New York.
Ecology
Aug 3, 2018
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An Amnesty International employee has been targeted with Israeli-made surveillance software, the human rights group said Wednesday, adding to a growing number of examples of Israeli technology being used to spy on human rights ...
Security
Aug 1, 2018
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