On Wednesday, Safecast announced that it has received a $400,000 grant from the Knight Foundation to create real-time maps of air quality in LA with the cooperation of Crash Space, an LA-based ...
Eight months after a tsunami caused a nuclear accident in Japan, ordinary people are using new technology and the power of crowdsourcing to find radiation hotspots. NewsHour science correspondent ...
When a nuclear crisis came on the heels of the March 2011 tsunami that devastated Japan, there was an outcry from those seeking accurate information about radiation levels in various prefectures. The ...
When Sean Bonner and a group of friends first decided to surface data on radiation levels across Japan following the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami that disabled the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power ...
What with so much conflicting information from government officials following last year’s nuclear disaster in Fukushima, many Japanese turned to an open source map created by Safecast to track local ...
In the weeks and months after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, a group of entrepreneurs, engineers, hackers and computer programmers formed Safecast and started constructing their own, crowdsourced ...
Reporting from Tokyo — As other Tokyo office workers poured into restaurants and bars at quitting time one recent evening, Kohei Matsushita went to the eighth floor of a high-rise for an unusual after ...
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