Tag: GPS
Giraffes range across diverse African habitats − we’re using GPS, satellites...
Michael Brown, Smithsonian Institution
Nearly 6,000 years ago, our ancestors climbed arid rocky outcrops in what is now the...
FTC lawsuit spotlights a major privacy risk: From call records to...
Susan Landau, Tufts University
The Federal Trade Commission filed suit against Kochava Inc. on Aug. 29, 2022, accusing the...
Surveillance is pervasive: Yes, you are being watched, even if no...
Peter Krapp, University of California, Irvine
The U.S. has the largest number of surveillance cameras per person in the...
The information age is starting to transform fishing worldwide
Nicholas P. Sullivan, Tufts University
People in the world’s developed nations live in a post-industrial era, working mainly in...
A large solar storm could knock out the power grid and...
David Wallace, Mississippi State University
On Sept. 1 and 2, 1859, telegraph systems around the world failed catastrophically. The...
Old stone walls record the changing location of magnetic north
John Delano, University at Albany, State University of New York
When I was a kid living in southern New Hampshire, my family home was on...
Amelia Earhart would have a hard time disappearing in 2019
Brian Strzempkowski, The Ohio State University and Shawn Pruchnicki, The Ohio State University
When Amelia Earhart took off in 1937 to fly around the world,...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
