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Categories: Computer Science: Virtual Reality (VR), Geoscience: Severe Weather
Published Adding AI to Museum exhibits increases learning, keeps kids engaged longer
(via sciencedaily.com) Researchers have demonstrated a more effective way to support learning and increase engagement at science-focused museum exhibits. They used artificial intelligence to create a new genre of interactive, hands-on exhibits that includes an intelligent, virtual assistant to interact with visitors. When the researchers compared their intelligent exhibit to a traditional one, they found that the intelligent exhibit increased learning and the time spent at the exhibit.
Published Researchers investigate development of coastal peatland in Indonesia over thousands of years
(via sciencedaily.com) Tropical peatlands are one of the most efficient carbon sinks. The flipside is that they can become massive emitters of carbon if they are damaged, for instance by land use change, degradation or fire. This can lead to faster climate warming. Researchers now show how peatland in the coastal areas in Sumatra and Borneo in Indonesia developed over thousands of years and how climate and sea level influenced their dynamics throughout.
Published Active video games provide alternative workout
(via sciencedaily.com) Working out isn't known for being fun. But new active video and virtual reality games may help change that. Exergaming, or active video gaming, may be the perfect introduction to helping people be more active, according to new research.
Published Intensity control of projectors in parallel: A doorway to an augmented reality future
(via sciencedaily.com) A challenge to adopting augmented reality (AR) in wider applications is working with dynamic objects, owing to a delay between their movement and the projection of light onto their new position. But, scientists may have a workaround. They have developed a method that uses multiple projectors while reducing delay time. Their method could open the door to a future driven by AR, helping us live increasingly technology-centered lives.
Published Stackable 'holobricks' can make giant 3D images
(via sciencedaily.com) Researchers have developed a new method to display highly realistic holographic images using 'holobricks' that can be stacked together to generate large-scale holograms.
Published Are conferences worth the time and money?
(via sciencedaily.com) Original source Scientists who interact with others during assigned sessions at conferences are more likely to form productive collaborations than scientists who do not, researchers found. And the kicker? It doesn't matter whether the conference is in person or virtual.
Published Chemical reaction design goes virtual
(via sciencedaily.com) Original source Researchers aim to streamline the time- and resource-intensive process of screening ligands during catalyst design by using virtual ligands.
Published Past eight years: Warmest since modern recordkeeping began
(via sciencedaily.com) Earth's global average surface temperature in 2021 tied with 2018 as the sixth warmest on record, according to independent analyses done by NASA and NOAA. Collectively, the past eight years are the warmest years since modern recordkeeping began in 1880.
Published New insights into sea ice and climate change
(via sciencedaily.com) A 170 m record of marine sediment cores extracted from Adélie Land in Antarctica is yielding new insights into the complicated relationship between sea ice and climate change.
Published New study ties solar variability to the onset of decadal La Nina events
(via sciencedaily.com) A new study shows a correlation between the end of solar cycles and a switch from El Nino to La Nina conditions in the Pacific Ocean, suggesting that solar variability can drive seasonal weather variability on Earth.
Published Antarctic seals reveal worrying threats to disappearing glaciers
(via sciencedaily.com) More Antarctic meltwater is surfacing than was previously known, modifying the climate, preventing sea ice from forming and boosting marine productivity- according to new research. For the first time, researchers have been able to obtain full-depth glacial meltwater observations in winter, using instruments attached to the heads of seals living near the Pine Island Glacier, in the remote Amundsen Sea in the west of Antarctica.
Published Researchers use car collisions with deer to study mysterious animal-population phenomena
(via sciencedaily.com) By parsing data on weather, deer populations and deer-vehicle collisions in Wisconsin, investigators show spatial synchrony could be driving population cycles, rather than the reverse.
Published 2020 tied for warmest year on record, NASA analysis shows
(via sciencedaily.com) Earth's global average surface temperature in 2020 tied with 2016 as the warmest year on record, according to an analysis by NASA.
Published Largest study of Asia's rivers unearths 800 years of paleoclimate patterns
(via sciencedaily.com) The SUTD study will be crucial for assessing future climatic changes and making more informed water management decisions.
Published Previously undescribed lineage of Archaea illuminates microbial evolution
(via sciencedaily.com) Scientists describe a previously unknown phylum of aquatic Archaea that are likely dependent on partner organisms for growth while potentially being able to conserve some energy by fermentation.
Published How new data can make ecological forecasts as good as weather forecasts
(via sciencedaily.com) Soon, ecologists thinks we'll be able to pull off the same forecasting feat for bird migrations and wildlife populations as for climate forecasts. That's because just as those recurring changes in climate have predictable consequences for humans, they also have predictable effects on plants and animals.
Published Improved estimates of Brazilian Amazon gains and losses
(via sciencedaily.com) A new study generated improved annual maps of tropical forest cover in the Brazilian Amazon in 2000-2017 and provided better characterization on the spatio-temporal dynamics of forest area, loss and gain in this region. The Amazon basin has the largest tropical forests in the world. Rapid changes in land use, climate and other human activities have resulted in substantial deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon over the past several decades.
Published Indian Ocean causes drought and heatwaves in South America
(via sciencedaily.com) Researchers have revealed that atmospheric waves originating from convection over the Indian Ocean had a dramatic impact on climate conditions over South America and South Atlantic, leading to drought and marine heatwaves. Importantly, these conditions are not a one-off and are likely to happen again.
Published Unprecedented number of warm-water species moved northward during marine heatwave
(via sciencedaily.com) A new study documents an unprecedented number of southern marine species moving northward into California and as far north as Oregon during the 2014-2016 marine heatwave. Of 67 rare, warm-water species sightings observed, 37 had never been documented so far north before.
Published Climate change leading to water shortage in Andes, Himalayas
(via sciencedaily.com) Climate change could have devastating effects on vulnerable residents in the Andes mountains and the Tibetan plateau, according to researchers who have been studying glaciers in those areas for decades.