Cyborg swarm maps unknown environments (Image 2)
Researchers at North Carolina State University developed software that allows them to map unknown environments -- such as collapsed buildings -- based on the movement of a swarm of insect cyborgs called "biobots." In this image, biobots explore an unknown environment. [See related image (Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery)
Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery - October 19, 2017 Category: Science Source Type: video
Cyborg swarm maps unknown environments (Image 1)
Researchers at North Carolina State University developed software that allows them to map unknown environments -- such as collapsed buildings -- based on the movement of a swarm of insect cyborgs called "biobots." In this image, biobots explore an unknown environment. [See related image (Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery)
Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery - October 19, 2017 Category: Science Source Type: video
Information Gathering Session on Alternative Testing Methods Strategy - November 2017
Interagency Coordinating Committee on the Validation of Alternative Methods
This meeting is being co-organized by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics (OPPT) and the Interagency Coordinating Committee for the Validation of Alternative Methods (ICCVAM). The topic is the development of a Strategic Plan for alternative test methods and strategies to reduce, refine or replace vertebrate animal testing for new and existing industrial chemical substances or mixtures in the U.S. This Strategic Plan is required per Section 4(h)(2) of the amended Toxic Substances Control Act (Fra...
Source: Videocast - All Events - October 13, 2017 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Alternative Testing Methods Strategy Public Meeting - November 2017
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics (OPPT) is preparing a strategic plan to promote the development and implementation of alternative test methods and strategies for chemical safety testing. This meeting will provide an update on EPA ’ s effort and an opportunity for public comment on the approach, goals, and objectives to consider during development of the plan. The meeting is open to the public with attendance restricted only by the space available, and will also be webcast. It is being co-organized by OPPT and NICEATM. Background On June 22, 2016, the Frank R. Laute...
Source: Videocast - All Events - October 13, 2017 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Learning to distinguish the good from the bad: Neural systems underlying reinforcement learning
Director's Seminar Series
The section on Learning and Decision making studies the neural circuitry and computational mechanisms that underlie reinforcement learning. Reinforcement learning (RL) is the behavioral process of learning what we like and do not like from experience. While some preferences are innate, many are learned over time. There are few areas in systems neuroscience where a theory has linked a neural mechanism to behavior as successfully as RL. The standard model of RL, developed in the mid-1990s, assumes that dopamine neurons code reward prediction errors (RPEs). RPEs are the difference between the reward ...
Source: Videocast - All Events - October 13, 2017 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Team goes house to house to learn where new vaccine works best (Image 6)
A community health worker records environmental information during a house visit in Malawi. He will collect GPS data and details about the area around the house, such as vegetation types and whether there is any standing water. [Image 6 of 6 related images. Back to (Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery)
Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery - September 15, 2017 Category: Science Source Type: video
Team goes house to house to learn where new vaccine works best (Image 5)
Some homes in Malawi are more vulnerable to mosquitoes than others. Community-health workers note housing conditions to understand the environments of the children in the trial and the efficacy of the vaccine. [Image 5 of 5 related images. Back to (Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery)
Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery - September 15, 2017 Category: Science Source Type: video
ATE's Advanced Technology Environmental and Energy Center
Educators and students gain hands-on experience about water technologies at Advanced Technology Environmental and Energy Center (ATEEC) workshops.
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Supported by the National Science Foundation's Advanced Technological Education program, ATEEC directly engages ...This is an NSF Multimedia Gallery item. (Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery)
Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery - September 1, 2017 Category: Science Source Type: video
CAVE2 Virtual Environment (Image 14)
The CAVE2™ system is a next-generation, large-scale, virtual environment--a room in which images are seamlessly displayed so as to immerse an observer in a cyber world of 3-D data. Here, Vaibhav Govilkar, a research assistant at the University of Illinois at Chicago's (UIC) Electronic ...This is an NSF Multimedia Gallery item. (Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery)
Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery - August 25, 2017 Category: Science Source Type: video
Rufous hummingbird
Many species of western birds, such as this rufous hummingbird, are strongly associated with wetter environments. In a dryer future, such species could decline.
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A model by researchers at Oregon State University (OSU) analyzed how birds in western North America ...This is an NSF Multimedia Gallery item. (Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery)
Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery - August 24, 2017 Category: Science Source Type: video
Scientific Advisory Committee on Alternative Toxicological Methods (SACATM) Meeting - September 2017 (Day 2)
SACATM advises the Interagency Coordinating Committee on the Validation of Alternative Methods (ICCVAM), the National Toxicology Program (NTP) Interagency Center for the Evaluation of Alternative Toxicological Methods (NICEATM), and the Director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) and NTP regarding statutorily mandated duties of ICCVAM and activities of NICEATM.
This meeting is open to the public, and the public will have an opportunity to provide written and oral comments on agenda topics.Air date: 9/19/2017 9:00:00 AM (Source: Videocast - All Events)
Source: Videocast - All Events - August 3, 2017 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Scientific Advisory Committee on Alternative Toxicological Methods (SACATM) Meeting - September 2017 (Day 1)
SACATM advises the Interagency Coordinating Committee on the Validation of Alternative Methods (ICCVAM), the National Toxicology Program (NTP) Interagency Center for the Evaluation of Alternative Toxicological Methods (NICEATM), and the Director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) and NTP regarding statutorily mandated duties of ICCVAM and activities of NICEATM.
This meeting is open to the public, and the public will have an opportunity to provide written and oral comments on agenda topics.Air date: 9/18/2017 9:00:00 AM (Source: Videocast - All Events)
Source: Videocast - All Events - August 3, 2017 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
NIH Council of Councils - September 2017
The NIH Council of Councils advises the NIH Director on on the policies and activities of the Division of Program Coordination, Planning, and Strategic Initiatives (DPCPSI) in the Office of the Director, NIH. The Council also carries out concept clearance for grant programs proposed by the DPCPSI Office of Research Infrastructure Programs (ORIP) and the NIH Common Fund, and conducts second-level review of proposed ORIP grant awards, awards for the Common Fund Transformative Research Award and Early Independence Award Programs, and awards for the Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes and All of Us Research Progr...
Source: Videocast - All Events - August 1, 2017 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Food and fear: Modeling animal tradeoffs shaped by landscape complexity -- Science Nation
The Lemhi Valley is a high desert sagebrush steppe environment in eastern Idaho, along the border with Montana. It's a critical habitat and a gorgeous piece of intact sagebrush landscape, according to University of Idaho mammalian ecologist Janet Rachlow. It also happens to be home to the pygmy ...This is an NSF Multimedia Gallery item. (Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery)
Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery - July 28, 2017 Category: Science Source Type: video
Worlds largest coral gene database created (Image 3)
A coral reef in the Red Sea. A Rutgers University study focused on how corals evolved to allow them to interact with, and adapt to, the environment.
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An international team of scientists led by Rutgers University faculty has conducted the worlds most comprehensive ...This is an NSF Multimedia Gallery item. (Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery)
Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery - July 13, 2017 Category: Science Source Type: video
