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5 October 2011

Wildlife on candid camera

The TEAM Network aims to serve as nature's early warning system for tropical regions. Sites scattered across the globe gather data for researchers to access and analyze through a distributed computing architecture. Recent results of the first global camera trap study of mammals confirmed suspicions that  habitat loss is having a direct effect on the survival and diversity of mammals.

Jan Zverina
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Wiping out plagiarism

As a new application running on desktop grids is starting the war on plagiarism in Hungary, by checking for translations of Wikipedia pages.

Jacqui Hayes
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A better lithium-ion battery on the way

Computing models combine with experiments to work towards a better battery.

Paul Preuss
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The Internet of things
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Culturomics: what can you learn from five million books?

The digitization of five million books has revealed a lot about the evolution of grammar, collective memory, the pursuit of fame, and more. And now the corpus is available for you to run your own queries on.

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