Tuesday, 7 May 2019

Science Says: Why biodiversity matters to you

You may go your entire life without seeing an endangered species, yet the globe's biodiversity crisis threatens all of humanity in numerous unseen or unrecognized ways, scientists say.

* This article was originally published here

Experimental cosmologist group launches its first iterations of space-traveling 'wafercraft'

These are the adventures of the "StarChip Wafersize."

* This article was originally published here

Teaching CRISPR and antibiotic resistance to high school students

How can high school students learn about a technology as complex and abstract as CRISPR? It's simple: just add water.

* This article was originally published here

An approach for securing audio classification against adversarial attacks

Adversarial audio attacks are small perturbations that are not perceivable by humans and are intentionally added to audio signals to impair the performance of machine learning (ML) models. These attacks raise serious concerns about the security of ML models, as they can cause them to make mistakes and ultimately generate wrong predictions.

* This article was originally published here

ClimaCell's weather watch makes use of wireless signals

A Boston-based startup is setting out to show the use of phones for better weather forecasting.

* This article was originally published here