Trump admin is pulling supercomputers out of key weather and climate research center
02 Mar
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Trump admin is pulling supercomputers out of key weather and climate research center

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The National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder in December.RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post/Getty ImagesA leading American research lab is slated to lose its critical supercomputing facility, according to a letter released Thursday by the National Science Foundation.The move is part of the Trump administration’s effort to disassemble the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, one of the world’s top weather and climate research centers, which the admin views as a source of climate change alarmism.The computing center, which is slated to be turned over to an unspecified third party, runs weather and climate research models and is used by about 1,500 researchers from over 500 universities around the country. The work done on this supercomputer benefits the American people by leading to more accurate forecasts of extreme weather and climate events, aircraft...
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How the new Science Center should become a crowd puller
21 Jul
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How the new Science Center should become a crowd puller

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To promote science out of the ivory tower - that is probably the most primary goal of the new Science Communication Centers. This Center for Science Communication, planned from 2027, does not want to set this step only in terms of content, but also in fact in the Vienna City Scale: The Monday presented on Monday Architecture concept Because it provides a radical opening of the centuries -old building of the "old auditorium", which is between Wollzeile and Bäckerstraße is located and currently operated under "Aula of Sciences". In the future, there should be a public round in order to develop a double magnetic effect on the population, as it were.
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