We have reached a milestone upon the publishing of the 10th number of THIS. And today is also a very special day – the 1st day of the year 2019! In THIS NO.10 Thisis will go through all the hot and important sciences in 2018 and update their current status.
We thank you for your support and wish you a happy new year!
NASA’s Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy, and Heat Transport (InSight) landed on Mars on November 26, 2018. The scientific instruments carried along with it allow us to investigate the interior structure and composition of Mars for the first time. Follow Thisis to have a look at what Insight is up to on Mars.
Global cooling or global warming? Follow THIS in the journey towards understanding the temperature cycles of the Earth.
Hurricane Florence arrived on the Carolina coast in September 14th. The once-fierce hurricane has caused at least 47 deaths and billions of agriculture losses. Meanwhile in southeastern Asia Typhoon Mangkhut, the planet’s most intense storm this year, has caused at least 102 fatalities in the Philippines, mainland China and Taiwan. In THIS No. 7 let’s follow Thisis to discover the formation of these “tropical cyclones”, how we predict and track them and how they might develop in a warmer world.
A short documentary film about lake ice measurements on Lake Pitkäjärvi in Nuuksio, Finland. This was an experiment in using documentary in science communication and presenting field work in nature.
In THIS No. 6 Thisis is going to reveal what the artistic designer- Pei Yu Lin has been doing in her Masters. As an information design major Pei Yu co-organized the annual conference – Visualizing Knowledge 2018. In THIS NO.6 let’s follow Thisis to explore what information design is and how it shapes our everyday life.
In THIS No. 5 Thisis is going to reveal what he scientific content editor has been doing in her Ph.D. After nearly 5 years of hard work she will move on to the next stage of her scientific career as a post-doctoral researcher this autumn. Let’s follow Thisis to explore how Yongmei uses numerical models to study the movements of glaciers and their fate in the future.
Machine learning technology with less human supervision had been pushed to the spotlight after Google’s AlphaGo Zero outplayed both top human players and other AI programs in the board game Go. This year IBM surprised us with another smart machine.
Monday, June 18th 2018, IBM unveiled its Project Debater – the first AI system that can debate humans on complex topics. The technique used in developing Project Debater includes numerous cutting-edge machine learning and data mining algorithms. Let’s follow Thisis to have a look at some of the basics about machine learning and Project Debater.
Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR) technology has been used in genome editing for more than a decade. New applications are discovered all the time. In THIS NO.3 This… Read More »THIS NO.3 – CRISPR
