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Since 2014, 49,520 registered volunteers have classified penguins, chicks, and eggs in Antarctic photos; more than 6 million classifications helped build a colony datasetThe Penguin Watch initiative witnessed enthusiastic participation from citizen scientists who contributed to penguin counting efforts in An...- In 2013, more than 16,000 Old Weather-Arctic volunteers transcribed handwritten Arctic ship logs, while 275,000 scanned pages contained about 23 million weather and sea-ice observationsThrough dedicated efforts, volunteers meticulously transcribed aged ship logs, unearthing essential historical weather information. This ci...
- A gigantic 400-year-old black coral in New Zealand's Fiordland, measuring 4 meters tall and 4.5 meters wide, has scientists calling it "absolutely huge" and using the find to map where these slow-growing corals still surviveA colossal black coral, estimated to be 300-400 years old and one of the largest ever found in New Zealand, has been discovered in Fiordlan...
- Hawaiians spotted sea turtles with mysterious 'graffiti' on their backs, and it sparked a 600-person mission to save the speciesHawaiian sea turtles, known as honu, were found with white markings on their shells. Initially causing confusion, federal scientists turned...
- IMD looks to use data from CubeSats, IoT devices for better forecastsIMD is set to enhance its forecast accuracy by using CubeSats, IoT devices, and crowdsourcing in combination with conventional satellites. ...
- NASA wants your idea. Take home Rs 25 crore in cash if you solve a moon mission challengeNASA is inviting innovative thinkers to participate in its LunaRecycle Challenge, offering a prize pool of $3 million (approximately Rs 25 ...
- How unproven options like blood washing, ozone treatments are luring long Covid survivorsHealth researchers admit there are few evidence-based treatments for long Covid.
- Covid-19 in India: Government sets up team to crowdsource fixesGovernment agencies such as the Department of Biotechnology, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, the Ministry of Electronics an...
- Living the past: AR, games keeping Bengalureans in touch with city's heritageFor conservation groups, startups and individual citizens fighting to maintain heritage, getting people in touch with it is a key objective.
- As deadline nears, request for SavetheMap from Geospatial Bill gains momentumPeople behind the SavetheMap initiative have created a website detailing the various clauses of the Bill and are asking people to send thei...
- Multiple petitions oppose Geospatial Bill as deadline for comments approachesAt the forefront are the SavetheMap initiative and the Digital Empowerment Foundation that are running campaigns to get a maximum number of...
- Smartphones could help detect earthquakes earlySensors in smartphones and other similar devices could be used to detect early ground movement to warn people about a potential earthquake.
- How Vaidyanathan A's year old startup PAQS is helping clean the polluted airWith just 280 pollution mapping centres for a population of 1.2 billion, India is hungry for solutions that can improve air quality.
- How Pune-based startup, kPoint, is helping Cognizant enhance its employee training practicesKPoint's technology enables Cognizant, which has a revenue of about $9 billion (Rs 54,000 crore), crowd source ideas and create a video-tra...
- CrediHealth, Perfiniti, FolksVagn & Shaadi-e-Khaas: Four start-ups with innovative ideasThe four start-ups featured are part of that rare new ideas group — one has made a biz out of carpooling, while another crowdsources opinio...
- Startups like Waybeo, Dextrasys Tech, ChaYoWo Games & others bloom in small townsA slew of technology startups are making their home in non-metro cities. ET profiles technology product and service startups in non-metro c...
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