Submitted by Sam Bendett on Tue, 11/20/2012 - 10:09
As Hurricane Sandy battered the Northeast, power outages wreaked havoc on telecommunications networks, knocking out wireless service for thousands of cell phone users. If a future hurricane triggers similar failures, regulators say they have a potential solution. It has the hallmarks of science fiction: floating wireless antennas from balloons or drones.
Submitted by Sam Bendett on Mon, 11/19/2012 - 14:14
As the climate changes and sea levels rise, cities that were previously thought to be relatively safe are looking more and more vulnerable — just ask anyone in New York who lived through Hurricane Sandy. Last year, a group of architecture firms united to tackle these issues with innovative green design.
Submitted by Sam Bendett on Mon, 11/19/2012 - 14:07
When hurricanes wander up the Atlantic Coast, Long Island’s topography is such that storms like Sandy, or last year’s Hurricane Irene, produce widespread, severe damage; effects can last for weeks, not only in the hardest-hit areas, but across the breadth of the island; Mark Zablocki, HSNW administrative editor, lives on Long Island, and he draws on his personal experience dealing with Sandy and its consequences to offer a few simple steps which, if followed, would help individuals analyze their own situation and the vulnerabilities and threats
Hydration Technology Innovations (HTI), who is a part of the STAR-TIDES network, was featured in a news article on the Official Website of the United States Air Force for the addition of the HTI Hydropack to the Air Forces' Humanitarian Operations Packaged Essentials, or HOPE, packages.
Submitted by Aimee Gooch on Fri, 11/16/2012 - 13:03
The Army and the National Science Center create a game, "Cyber Swarm Defenders", to engage middle school age children and prepare them for cyber defense and STEM technologies.
Submitted by Aimee Gooch on Fri, 11/16/2012 - 13:01
On Nova Science Now the other evening they were describing future tech, ie robot competition for DARPA, exoskeletons and crowd sourcing. In the crowd sourcing bit, they talked to David Baker who has created two online games to solve science questions that experts in the field were not able to figure out but the collected resources of the crowd (untrained in the discipline) were able to. The first was called Fold It and it modeled the protein that viruses like HIV need to replicate which turned out to be a large leap forward in finding a cure.
From Huffington Post: Tech (Nov 16, 2012)-- A way to rapidly deploy internet capability to areas with recently destroyed infrastructures or places where infrastructures do not exist like refugee camps.
Submitted by nellymobula on Fri, 11/16/2012 - 10:50
Robert Kirkpatrick from UN Global Pulse delivering an incredibly thorough, agile and forward-thinking talk that brings to our attention several rapidly evolving new areas of inquiry in the field view more here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3Axkkt6tNw&feature=related
