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How AI Art Could Enhance Humanity’s Collective Memory | Refik Anadol | TED (video)
With data as his paintbrush, media artist Refik Anadol trains AI algorithms to visualize the disappearing wonders of nature. He gives a beautiful tour of his recent work — imagery of artificial coral reefs, flowers, rainforests — and ponders: Can we use AI to preserve our memories of the fading natural world?
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NASA Citizen Science (resource)
NASA’s citizen science projects are collaborations between scientists and interested members of the public. https://science.nasa.gov/citizen-science
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Why CAVES – Astrobiology (video)
NASA’s director of Astrobiology Institute, Penelope Boston, explains why caves are interesting to astrobiologists.
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Earth Climate Models Bring Exoplanet To Life (video)
In a generic brick building on the northwestern edge of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center campus in Greenbelt, Maryland, thousands of computers packed in racks the size of vending machines hum in a deafening chorus of data crunching. Day and night, they spit out five quadrillion calculations per second. Known collectively as the Discover supercomputer,…
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Video: How We’ll Find Life On Other Planets
Astronomer Aomawa Shields searches for clues that life might exist elsewhere in the universe by examining the atmospheres of distant exoplanets. When she isn’t exploring the heavens, the classically trained actor (and TED Fellow) looks for ways to engage young women in the sciences using theater, writing and visual art. “Maybe one day they’ll join…
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Video: Earth Climate Models Bring Exoplanets to Life
“In a generic brick building on the northwestern edge of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center campus in Greenbelt, Maryland, thousands of computers packed in racks the size of vending machines hum in a deafening chorus of data crunching. Day and night, they spit out five quadrillion calculations per second. Known collectively as the Discover supercomputer,…
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Video: Astrobiology-Life in the Universe
“Are we alone in the Universe? You have probably asked yourself this question at some point. We will show you how planetary scientists are looking for signs of life in other planets, using our very own Earth a laboratory.”
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Data Visualization: Masses in the Stellar Graveyard
What are the densest objects that form when stars die? https://ligo.northwestern.edu/media/mass-plot/index.html
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Citizen Science: Backyard Worlds-Planet 9
“We need your help searching for new objects at the edges of our solar system. In this project, we’ll ask you to help us distinguish real celestial objects from image artifacts in data from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission. The real objects are brown dwarfs and low-mass stars, the Sun’s nearest neighbors. You…
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Article: NASA Fosters Innovative Ways to Understand Biodiversity
“To study and monitor changes in Earth’s biodiversity, or the immense volume of organisms in the world, scientists and citizen scientists record their sightings in the field. At the same time, sensors on the ground and on board satellites and aircraft monitor flora and fauna on a regional to global scale. NASA has funded four…
