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Some conferences will convene partially in-person this year as “hybrid” meetings. PHOTO: ISTOCK.COM/MIODRAG IGNJATOVIC Last year, the COVID-19 pandemic upended the conference experience for researchers around the globe as scientific societies canceled in-person meetings and scrambled to hold virtual events in their place with varying success. Now, as vaccines become more widely available, particularly in the United States, some of those societies are grappling with a new challenge: when and how to safely get conference attendees into the same room again while maintaining the accessibility and wide reach virtual meetings afford. Many are opting to stay virtual. But this summer and fall, a handful of U.S. societies are taking the plunge and planning “hybrid” meetings, which will convene in a physical location and also allow for virtual participation. It s a significant undertaking, often involving two separate planning teams and greater expense and the risk that ....
‘Hybrid’ scientific conferences aim to offer the best of in-person and virtual meetings May. 12, 2021 , 12:50 PM Last year, the COVID-19 pandemic upended the conference experience for researchers around the globe as scientific societies canceled in-person meetings and scrambled to hold virtual events in their place with varying success. Now, as vaccines become more widely available, particularly in the United States, some of those societies are grappling with a new challenge: when and how to safely get conference attendees into the same room again while maintaining the accessibility and wide reach virtual meetings afford. Many are opting to stay virtual. But this summer and fall, a handful of U.S. societies are taking the plunge and planning “hybrid” meetings, which will convene in a physical location and also allow for virtual participation. It s a significant undertaking, often involving two separate planning teams and greater expense and the risk that virtua ....
Copy link for Scientists Measure Mars Core and It Is Shockingly Big! For the first time, scientists have looked at the heart of Mars the planet s core. They measured its size by listening to Marsquakes, which aren t too different from earthquakes. The eavesdropping machine that did the listening: NASA s InSight lander, positioned on the Red Planet s surface. It turns out, Mars core is much bigger than anyone expected. How to Listen for Marsquakes NASA sent InSight on its Mars mission in 2018. The goal was to collect seismic data from sensors that track the noises produced by Marsquakes. That seismic noise bouncing around inside the planet helps measure the size of Mars core. (It s also how the cores of Earth and the moon were measured.) ....