The way we use data is a life or death matter – from the refugee crisis to COVID-19
In moments of crisis we often turn to data in an attempt to both understand the situation we are in, and to look for answers of how to escape.
In moments of crisis we often turn to data in an attempt to both understand the situation we are in, and to look for answers of how to escape.
Other
Nov 12, 2020
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In a circular economy, we wouldn't have any waste or pollution. Instead, everything we make and all our byproducts would be reused or repurposed, helping to end the over-exploitation of our finite resources and damage to ...
Environment
Nov 10, 2020
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The digital age holds promise for the world's half-billion smallholder farmers. Smartphones with the right apps can tell farmers when it's likely going to rain, how to identify and eradicate pests, and negotiate the prices ...
Environment
Nov 02, 2020
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The digital revolution in the age of big data is creating new research opportunities. Approaches such as culturomics and iEcology promise to provide huge benefits and novel sources of information for ecological research, ...
Ecology
Oct 30, 2020
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The digital data generated around the world every year is now counted in zettabytes, or trillions of billions of bytes—equivalent to delivering data for hundreds of millions of books every second. The amount of data generated ...
General Physics
Oct 16, 2020
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Although out of sight to the majority of end users, data centers work behind the scenes to run the internet, businesses, research institutions and more. These data centers depend on high-capacity digital storage, the demand ...
Materials Science
Oct 08, 2020
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Much of the 'memory' of the world and all our digital activities are based on media, hard disks, where the information is encoded thanks to magnetism, by orienting the spin of electrons in one direction or the other.
General Physics
Sep 29, 2020
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Southwest Research Institute is offering new drone-based, remote-sensing techniques to digitally map and model exposed geologic structures, or outcrops, to better understand subsurface structures associated with petroleum ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 29, 2020
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The center of our Milky Way galaxy is too distant for us to visit in person, but we can still explore it. Telescopes give us a chance to see what the Galactic Center looks like in different types of light. By translating ...
Astronomy
Sep 22, 2020
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Following yesterday's successful launch of ɸ-sat-1—Europe's first artificial intelligence Earth observation mission—plans are already underway for the next innovative state-of-the-art technology, ɸ-sat-2.
Space Exploration
Sep 07, 2020
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