England has a reputation for being a damp country, but these last few months have been especially trying for people in the UK. January was England’s wettest winter month in almost 250 years. Approximately 146 mm of rain fell in January, a new record, according to the Radcliffe Observatory in Oxford. Much of Southern England […]
BOINC, which is short for Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing, is a piece of software that you can download to your computer. With it, you’re able to donate spare computing time to big data projects, essentially allowing your computer to do your citizen science for you. Until recently, the software was only available for […]
Malaria is one of the deadliest infectious diseases on the planet. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), in 2010, malaria caused an estimated 660 000 deaths, mostly among African children. That roughly translates into one child death every minute, or the same amount of time it will take you to read this post. Sadly, […]
If you’ve seen the movie An Inconvenient Truth, or watched Ted talks by James Hansen, Rachel Pike, or James Balog, you’ll know that discussions about climate change involve a lot of data, and that our understanding of the Earth’s climate is constantly evolving. That’s because there are hundreds of parameters to consider when doing any […]