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From ACM NewsSamuel Greengard| December 7, 2023
An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
California continues to be plagued by wildfires, including the Woolsey Fire near Los Angeles and the Camp Fire in Northern California, now one of the deadliest...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | November 14, 2018
Hurricane Michael plowed into the Florida panhandle Wednesday, Oct. 10, as a major Category 4 storm—the strongest hurricane ever to hit that region.
Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | October 11, 2018
Ice losses from Antarctica have tripled since 2012, increasing global sea levels by 0.12 inch (3 millimeters) in that timeframe alone, according to a major new...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | June 14, 2018
The rate of global sea level rise has been accelerating in recent decades, rather than increasing steadily, according to a new study based on 25 years of NASA and...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | February 14, 2018
Astronomers and visualization specialists from NASA's Universe of Learning program have combined visible and infrared vision of the Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | January 11, 2018
Loss of water from the rocks of California's Sierra Nevada caused the mountain range to rise nearly an inch (24 millimeters) in height during the drought years...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | December 15, 2017
A new NASA tool links changes in sea level in 293 global port cities to specific regions of melting land ice, such as southern Greenland and the Antarctic Peninsula...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | November 22, 2017
When NASA scientists want to follow the path of the Curiosity rover on Mars, they can don a mixed-reality headset and virtually explore the Martian landscape.
Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | October 23, 2017
A NASA-produced map showing areas of eastern Puerto Rico that were likely damaged by Hurricane Maria has been provided to responding agencies, including the Federal...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | September 28, 2017
Today marks the 25th anniversary of the launch of a revolutionary ocean research vessel—a space "ship."
Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | August 14, 2017
NASA pulled off a scientific double play in Hawaii this winter, using the same instruments and aircraft to study both volcanoes and coral reefs.
Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | March 28, 2017
Researchers have completed the first flights of a NASA-led field campaign that is targeting one of the biggest gaps in scientists' understanding of Earth's water...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | February 17, 2017
Less than a year after the first research flight kicked off NASA's Oceans Melting Greenland campaign last March, data from the new program are providing a dramatic...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | February 10, 2017
A new NASA supercomputer project builds on the agency's satellite measurements of carbon dioxide and combines them with a sophisticated Earth system model to provide...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | December 16, 2016
As Earth warms, much of the extra heat is stored in the planet's ocean—but monitoring the magnitude of that heat content is a difficult task.
Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | December 14, 2016
NASA has released its Spinoff 2017 publication, which takes a close look at 50 different companies that are using NASA technology—innovations developed by NASA,...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | December 7, 2016
Hurricane Matthew, currently an extremely dangerous Category 4 storm on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale, continues to bear down on the southeastern United...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | October 7, 2016
NASA researchers have helped produce the first map showing what parts of the bottom of the massive Greenland Ice Sheet are thawed—key information in better predicting...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | August 8, 2016
On July 4, NASA will fly a solar-powered spacecraft the size of a basketball court within 2,900 miles (4,667 kilometers) of the cloud tops of our solar system's...Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA From ACM News | June 17, 2016