The Burgeoning Science of Search and Rescue - Undark Magazine
2024年1月22日 · O n May 5, 2023, a 19-year-old hiker named Matthew Read headed out on a roughly 12-mile trek in an underpopulated part of Glacier National Park in Montana. Read, a chemical engineering student, had stopped in Glacier while driving home to Michigan, and the pine-surrounded path he embarked on was known for its big views of the Livingston Range, a …
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Using Environmental DNA in Wildlife Conservation - Undark …
2024年3月18日 · T he exploration of environmental DNA started in the 1980s with researchers studying microbes or microorganisms, such as bacteria, fungi, and algae. But it wasn’t until the early 2000s that the use of eDNA started gaining momentum as methods and technologies evolved, and more scientists began adopting the approach.
The Uncharted World of Emerging Pathogens - Undark Magazine
2024年2月14日 · Today Covid-19 has killed nearly 80,000 New Yorkers, almost 1.2 million Americans, and nearly 7 million people worldwide.The pandemic catalyzed a push for new technologies that allow scientists to quickly characterize organisms leaving a …
Confronting Our Ambivalence Over AI - undark.org
2024年2月22日 · R evolts against science are often deeply irrational, as we witnessed during the Covid-19 pandemic, with political polarization around lifesaving vaccines and critical public health measures. But public distrust of science has too often been enabled through its manipulation by corporate interests, including big tobacco and oil, as well as by the dangers associated with its …
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Can a 'Net-Zero' World Lead to True Sustainability? - Undark …
2024年4月11日 · During the Cold War, building more (and more powerful) weapons than the enemy became synonymous with peace-building. Today, decarbonization, the effort to reduce the emissions of carbon dioxide across the economy, has become virtually synonymous with environmental sustainability, as reflected in the Biden administration’s environmental …
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Mind-Decoding Technologies Raise Hopes (and Worries) - Undark …
2024年1月3日 · For weeks, ever since the pandemic had shuttered his university and forced his lab work online, Tang had been at home tweaking a semantic decoder — a brain-computer interface, or BCI, that generates text from brain scans.Prior to the university’s closure, study participants had been providing data to train the decoder for months, listening to hours of …
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