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Six new science apps in 2013

Last week news broke that Tamagotchi, the 1990s virtual pet, has been reborn as an app. It’s nostalgic for those of us who as teenagers, doted on our egg-shaped digital key chain to keep it happy and healthy. As one of those people, please avoid downloading this app and do something useful with your time. One visit to...

Treetops to laptops – science and Google keep an eye on things

Detailed satellite imagery about Australian landscapes will soon be only a button push away for land managers in community and non-profit sectors thanks to a partnership between Australian scientists and Google. According to CSIRO Principal Research Scientist Dr Alex Held, Director of the Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network’s (TERN) AusCover facility, the partnership aims to provide...

Where there’s tweets there’s fire

By Arwen Cross and Carrie Bengston LOL cats and celebrities might be our favourite things to talk about on twitter, but would you tweet in an emergency? Some people certainly do. Over in New Zealand the #eqnz hashtag has its finger on Christchurch’s seismic pulse. We’ve created software tools to analyse Twitter posts and look...

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Six new science apps in 2013

Treetops to laptops – science and Google keep an eye on things

Where there’s tweets there’s fire

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