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Month: December 2018

Chickens with Fitbits. Future of farming.

6 December 2018 grant 0

Digital Trends looks at how wearable devices could revolutionize farming and keep chickens healthier:

Sitting neatly between these two size extremes is a new project coming out of the

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There’s an easy fix for gerrymandering, if Congress can count two decimal places.

4 December 2018 grant 0

In Forbes, Johns Hopkins Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Computer Science, and Biostatistics Steven Salzberg has put forward a modest mathematical proposal to solve some of our… Read the rest “There’s an easy fix for gerrymandering, if Congress can count two decimal places.”

It’s not quite “Please open the podbay doors, HAL,” but almost….

3 December 2018 grant 0

Buzzfeed reports on an unexpected personality clash with an AI on the International Space Station – an incident that could affect how similar synthetic companions are used on missions… Read the rest “It’s not quite “Please open the podbay doors, HAL,” but almost….”

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Science Art: A Magnetic Wormhole by J. Prat-Camps, C. Navau & A. Sanchez, 2015.

2 December 2018 grant 0

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From the Wikimedia Commons description:

(a) The field of a magnetic source (right) is appearing as an isolated magnetic monopole when passing through the magnetostatic

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