Ecology and environment
Project
EarthTones: Chemical Sensing Powders to Detect and Display Environmental Hazards through Color Variation
EarthTones is a cosmetic-inspired wearable chemical sensing powders designed to detect the exposure levels of harmful environmental factors through color change.
Video
Idea Date Science – Session 1
Modeling Ecosystems from Genome to Society – A symposium presenting how an international consortium that is working to build the first full-scale simulation of a complex social-ecological system. The Island Digital Ecosystem Avatar (IDEA) is…
Publication
Project Florence: A Plant to Human Experience
Publication
Dunking the data center
Video
Fukushima Daiichi – Six Years Later
Following the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunamis off the northeastern coast of Japan, the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant personnel encountered extraordinary challenges in managing the loss of electrical power, control, and instrumentation at…
Video
Microsoft’s underwater datacenter: Project Natick
Introducing Microsoft Project Natick, a Microsoft research project to manufacture and operate an underwater datacenter. The initial experimental prototype vessel, christened the Leona Philpot after a popular Xbox game character, was operated on the seafloor…
