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Get the latest science news, future tech, and wonders of the natural world from the UK's no.1 science and technology monthly magazine (formerly BBC Focus).

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BBC Science Focus, Instant Genius Podcast

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BBC Science Focus, Instant Genius Podcast

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Instant Genius Podcast | BBC Science Focus Magazine

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From the creators of BBC Science Focus, Instant Genius is a bite-sized masterclass in podcast form. With each episode, a different world-leading expert will help you understand the latest ideas and research in the world of science and tech. We want to make you an expert in everything.

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Womb transplant baby, and ancient seafarers

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Podcast · The Naked Scientists · The Naked Scientists flagship science show brings you a lighthearted look at the latest scientific breakthroughs, interviews with the world's top scientists, answers to your science questions and science experiments to try at home.

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Ep 172 Childhood Vaccine Schedule 1: Let’s give it a shot

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Podcast · BBC World Service · We take your questions about life, Earth and the universe to researchers hunting for answers at the frontiers of knowledge.

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A multi-institutional collaborative venture to develop the next generation of open-access texts to improve postsecondary education at all levels of higher learning.

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Welcome to the Biology Library. This Living Library is a principal hub of the LibreTexts project, which is a multi-institutional collaborative venture to develop the next generation of open-access texts to improve postsecondary education at all levels of higher learning. The LibreTexts approach is highly collaborative where an Open Access textbook environment is under constant revision by students, faculty, and outside experts to supplant conventional paper-based books.

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The LibreTexts libraries collectively are a multi-institutional collaborative venture to develop the next generation of open-access texts to improve postsecondary education.

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Science in School is a free online magazine that provides inspiring teaching resources covering all STEM subjects.

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Blue or brown eyes? More or less fan of coriander? Blood type A or AB? We're all different, and the genetic basis of this individuality lies at the heart of our chromosomes, at the heart of our DNA.

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Daily discoveries, groundbreaking research and fascinating science breakthroughs that impact you and the wider world, reported by our expert journalists.

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Latest Science news, comment and analysis from the Guardian, the world's leading liberal voice

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ReadWorks | Award-Winning, EdTech Nonprofit Organization

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ReadWorks is an edtech nonprofit organization that is committed to helping to solve America’s reading comprehension crisis.

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An exploration of the world's life science subjects.

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Jem Bendell encourages us to think about societal collapse in ways that are 'profound and startlingly original', with the potential to birth whole new social movements, says Tom Doig.

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The Conversation: In-depth analysis, research, news and ideas from leading academics and researchers.

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Our Mission

NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio produces visualizations, animations, and images in order to promote a greater understanding of Earth and Space Sciences. We work closely with scientists - both within the NASA community, and within the broader academic research community - to create high-quality, data-backed visualizations.

About Us

NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio is based out of the Goddard Space Flight Center ( GSFC), located in Greenbelt, Maryland. The core studio consists of a team of (approximately) 15 visualizers, some of whom have been working with the studio for almost 30 years. The SVS's visualizers specialize in a wide variety of disciplines - astronomy, planetary science, climatology, cartography, and 3D modeling (to name a few) - but are united by a common love of making science accessible.

History

NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio was founded by Jim Strong at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ( GSFC) in 1990. Jim would soon be joined in 1991 by visualizer Horace Mitchell, who would go on to head the department all the way until his retirement in 2019. The studio was originally founded to create visualizations to go alongside NASA research publications - which still constitute the vast majority of the studio's work to this day. In the studio's early days, much of our work focused on creating (near) real-time visualizations: grabbing data from NASA satellites, processing it as rapidly as possible, and producing high-quality, more digestible visualizations.

By 1997, the studio's focus shifted from real-time visualization technologies (that were primarily research-oriented) towards non-real-time, pre-rendered visualizations aimed towards public outreach. Around this time, the studio also began working closely with the NASA Public Affairs Office (now Office of Communications) to get our visualizations out to a wide variety of news outlets, film production companies, and academic institutions.

By 2001, we had developed an extensive library of Betacam-SP tapes (NTSC) and needed a more easily-accessible way for the public to access our content. Thus, the SVS website was born. Since its inception, the SVS website has served as both a historical archive of our works and a place to keep up with the current research of NASA's Earth and Space Science divisions. Around this time, the SVS also began working closely with our partner groups Conceptual Image Labs ( CI Labs) and Goddard Media Studios ( GMS) to publish a more diverse array of content. The website would formally begin hosting content from these two groups in 2006.

Conceptual Image Labs focuses more on the artistic side of things - producing high-fidelity renders using film animation and visual design techniques. Where the SVS primarily focuses on making data-based visualizations, CI Labs puts more emphasis on conceptual visualizations - producing animations featuring NASA spacecraft, planetary observations, and simulations.

Goddard Media Studios, on the other hand, is more focused towards public outreach - producing interviews, TV programs, and documentaries. GMS continues to be the main producers behind NASA TV, and as such, much of their content is aimed towards the general public.

Throughout the late 1990s and early 2000s, the SVS experimented with a wide variety of nascent virtual reality technologies. The work from this time period would later be repurposed and spun off into the NASA Hyperwall project: a multi-screen, high-resolution, wall-sized display. The Hyperwall would later be adopted for NASA public outreach efforts: traveling around the world to various conferences and being used for museum exhibits, scientific presentations, and multimedia shows. The website would begin formally hosting NASA Hyperwall content in 2010.

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NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio works closely with scientists in the creation of visualizations, animations, and images in order to promote a greater understanding of Earth and Space Science research activities at NASA and within the academic research community supported by NASA.

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Real-time tracking of pathogen evolution

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Clade assignment, mutation calling, and sequence quality checks