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Code Red Robotics of Ithaca High School is ready to kick off a new school year! As part of the worldwide FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology)

An interdisciplinary study group used ecological field methods combined with cutting-edge artificial intelligence to discover eelgrass-wasting disease at almost three dozen sites throughout a 1,700-mile length of the West Coast, from San Diego to southern Alaska.

Hydropower accounts for more than 60% of the electricity generated in Brazil. And the network of mighty rivers in the Amazon Basin is responsible for most of this potential. Today, there are more than 300 proposals for new dams under consideration in the region. But while hydropower is considered a source of clean energy — […]

Biologist Alex Flecker and computer scientist Carla Gomes co-led a project that employed AI and around 40 researchers in an attempt to determine optimal placement of around 350 hydropower dams in the Amazon river basin.

A few years ago, biologist Alexander Flecker went to computer scientist Carla Gomes with an ambitious suggestion: utilize AI and other tools, in partnership with a diverse group of Amazon river basin experts, to figure out how to meet hydropower requirements with the least impact of the environment.