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High-speed internet could be coming to Antarctica

The Verge

But despite its central role in Antarctic research, McMurdo is lacking something most scientists working at 21st-century laboratories take for granted: high-speed internet. The idea was first raised a little over a decade ago but lost traction as other projects took priority. That could soon change, however.

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

TechCrunch

million in grants to continue building its acoustic resonance technology to assess lung function and changes therein. million in grants from Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR), National Science Foundation (NSF) and National Institutes for Health (NIH).

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Docugami’s new model for understanding documents cuts its teeth on NASA archives

TechCrunch

Through its many past and present programs, solicitations, grant programs, budgets, and of course engineering projects, it generates a huge amount of documents — being, after all, very much a part of the federal bureaucracy. “Oh, we’re not running on grants! The doctor or the patient name? .”

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ExhibitFiles: Interviews with Initiators Jim Spadaccini and Wendy Pollock

Museum 2.0

What was the basis for this project? How did this come to be an ASTC (Association of Science and Technology Centers) project? Wendy: Part of the thinking was that NSF supported the book Are We There Yet? , NSF requires grant applicants to build on prior knowledge--where do you get it? Why is that?

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Quickie Links: Surveys, Transcripts, and a Strange Bedfellow

Museum 2.0

Ideum, the company that brought you ExhibitFiles (with ASTC), is conducting a survey on museums' needs in support of an NSF grant proposal (Open Exhibits) to build open source templates for simple interactive exhibits (timelines, digital collections, news kiosks). What does that mean in simple terms? Check them out here.

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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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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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