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High-speed internet could be coming to Antarctica

The Verge

Earlier this year, the NSF began seriously exploring the possibility of building a fiber optic cable that would travel along the seafloor from Antarctica to neighboring New Zealand or Australia. After that, NSF will decide whether to proceed with the project. That could soon change, however. National Science Foundation.

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Minerva Lithium uses absorbent material to change the way we extract lithium

TechCrunch

Among them is Minerva Lithium , a University of North Carolina at Greensboro spinoff that has produced Nano Mosaic, a coordinated polymer framework that looks a bit like black gravel and extracts critical materials from brine in just three days. By 2021, Minerva had received pre-seed funding from NSF. Image Credits: Minerva Lithium.

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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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PreciTaste lands cash for tech that checks restaurant orders for accuracy

TechCrunch

According to NSF International, a product testing and certification organization, more than half of quick-service restaurant (QSR) managers found staff turnover to be an issue for their business, with 20% saying that it had the biggest negative impact on operations within the past several months. ” Image Credits: PreciTaste.

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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?

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Mystery Objects From Other Stars Are Visiting Our Solar System. These Missions Will Study Them Up Close

Singularity Hub

RubinObs/NOIRLab/SLAC/NSF/DOE/AURA/Y. He is affiliated with RAND Europe’s Space Hub and is lead of the civil space theme, the University of Sussex Students’ Union as a Trustee, and Rocket Science Ltd. She was previously a fellow at Arizona State University, and before that was briefly at NATO. as an advisor.

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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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