Predictive Science, Inc. Releases Influenza Predictions
San Diego-based Predictive Science, Inc. this week released their first forecast for the 2019-2020 influenza season, which typically runs from November through March.
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A deadly fungus is wiping out North American bats while Eurasian bats have learned to live with it. An international team wants to know why.
Wildlife disease ecologist Jeff Foster of Northern Arizona University is partnering with researchers throughout the world to study the spread of white-nose syndrome, which was discovered in North America in 2006. Researchers believed it migrated from Europe and has continued moving west.
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Supercomputer Simulations Help Optimize Floating Wind Farms
The Comet supercomputer at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) and the Stampede2 supercomputer at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) were used to perform simulations that showed how floating turbine wakes are very similar those of fixed-bottom turbines, except that floating turbine wakes are deflected upward and have slightly stronger turbulence at the edge of their wakes.
Read moreSDSC Receives New Funding for West Big Data Innovation Hub
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a second round of funding for the country’s four Big Data Innovation Hubs
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