A marine iguana on Fernandina Island. Credit: Amy MacLeod Nearly 14,000 volunteers took part in the citizen science project Iguanas from Above, helping to count endangered Galapagos marine iguanas through an online survey—and in doing so, contributed to the preservation of this unique lizard species. Every aerial image of the iguana colonies captured by drones […]

The Office AI Science team is part of OPG. The team builds systems that are leveraged across M365 and especially within Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. The team’s recent projects have included: PPT Summarization, Audio Overviews (Podcast), SPOCK Eval, Data Pipeline, Natural Language to Office JS, and CUA.  PPT Summarization: The Office AI Science team built the first fine-tuned SLM within M365. The fine-tuned Phi-3 Vision SLM improved p95 latency of PPT Visual Summary feature from 13 seconds to 2 seconds, while maintaining quality (opens in new tab) on par with GPT-4o-v. The optimization […]

Group photo showing the three 2024-25 Science News Learning Ambassadors. Chris Ferenzi / Society for Science Cara Hale-Hanes, Rosalyn Parson and Tandi Steffens are STEM educators who use their expertise teaching science literacy with current, real-world examples. This school year, they have served as Ambassadors for the Science News Learning program. As Science News Learning […]

Photo: Everyman Springer Nature brought outer space to London’s King’s Cross with a screening of the Matt Damon film The Martian at Everyman on the Canal, as part of an initiative to promote the importance of science communication. Employees at the Springer Nature London office chose the movie. In a short introductory film played before the main […]