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High-speed internet could be coming to Antarctica

The Verge

Run by the US National Science Foundation, the station sees up to 1,000 visitors in the Antarctic summer from October to February, who travel here to conduct research on topics ranging from climate to ocean science. The idea was first raised a little over a decade ago but lost traction as other projects took priority.

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New social media transparency bill would force Facebook to open up to researchers

The Verge

Named the Platform Accountability and Transparency Act (PATA), it would establish new rules compelling social media platforms to share data with “qualified researchers,” defined as university-affiliated researchers pursuing projects that have been approved by the National Science Foundation (NSF).

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Lung-health startup Respira Labs inhales $2.8M to help respiration patients breathe easier

TechCrunch

million in grants from Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR), National Science Foundation (NSF) and National Institutes for Health (NIH). On top of the investment raised, the company was awarded an additional $1.8

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Cyberinfrastructure: What is it? What does it mean?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Back in the early 1990s, I was "hoisting" web pages onto the Internet with a colleague David Green who worked at the New York Foundation for the Arts on the Arts Wire project.

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Community Science Workshops and Shared Authorship of Space: Interview with Emilyn Green

Museum 2.0

Most Workshops also run a wide range of additional programs - supplemental school day programs, afterschool programs, mobile units that go to housing projects. We received two rounds of NSF funding in the 1990s to expand. We received NSF funding for three years and then it cut off. How are Workshop locations selected?

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Here’s why AG1’s CEO is envisioning the DTC supplement on store shelves

Fast Company Tech

I think about third-party certificationswe’ve been NSF[-certified] for sport for eight or nine years, which is a third-party certification that not only verifies that what’s on the label is in the product, it also ensures there are no contaminants or doping agents. AG1 is foundational nutrition.

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In war against DEI in science, researchers see collateral damage

Ars Technica

W hen he realized that Senate Republicans were characterizing his federally funded research project as one of many they considered ideological and of questionable scientific value, Darren Lipomi, chair of the chemical engineering department at the University of Rochester, was incensed.

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