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Do you need extra training before graduate school? Consider a post-baccalaureate position

Jan 14, 2025 | nature.com | Sumeet Kulkarni

In April, Meredith MacGregor, an astronomer at Johns Hopkins University, put out a call from her laboratory in Baltimore, Maryland, on the platform X: “Annual request to please respond with any post-bac positions in astronomy you know of! Grad admissions was rough this year, and there are lots of awesome undergrads now looking for research positions to help prepare them to apply again.” The post was a plea to connect recent university graduates with principal investigators (PIs) who could...
Chorus Automotive Clock Generator Enables High Levels of Safety with FailSafe Technology

Sep 26, 2024 | electronicsmedia.info | Sumeet Kulkarni

SiTime introduced Chorus Automotive clock generators—the industry’s first fully integrated clock system-on-a-chip (ClkSoC) with built-in fault monitoring mechanisms for the entire clock generation signal path. The FailSafe technology in Chorus automotive delivers a new approach to the industry, integrating MEMS resonator, oscillator and advanced safety mechanisms into a single package.
Chorus automotive clock generator: safety with FailSafe technology

Sep 25, 2024 | electronicspecifier.com | Sumeet Kulkarni

SiTime has introduced Chorus Automotive clock generators – the first fully integrated clock system-on-a-chip (ClkSoC) with built-in fault monitoring mechanisms for the entire clock generation signal path. By Sumeet Kulkarni, Director of Product Marketing, Automotive, SiTime The FailSafe technology in Chorus automotive delivers a new approach to the industry, integrating MEMS resonator, oscillator, and advanced safety mechanisms into a single package.
Why MEMS precision timing upstages Quartz for automotive reliability and safety

Aug 29, 2024 | electronicspecifier.com | Sumeet Kulkarni

Automotive innovation is rapidly advancing, shifting toward next-generation vehicles that are not only greener, more efficient, and higher performing but also safer and more reliable. By Sumeet Kulkarni, Director of Product Marketing, Automotive, SiTime This article originally appeared in the July'24 magazine issue of Electronic Specifier Design – see ES's Magazine Archives for more featured publications.
Three ways AI is changing the 2024 Olympics for athletes and fans

Jul 25, 2024 | nature.com | Sumeet Kulkarni

When more than 10,000 athletes from around 200 countries gather in Paris for the 2024 Summer Olympic Games this week, they will have an all-new friendly — but faceless — voice to greet and guide them. How do I reach my sporting venue? Can I livestream the opening ceremony? Will there be a computer refereeing my games? Where can I get freebies from sponsors?
The Milky Way is ‘less weird’ than we thought

Jun 28, 2024 | nature.com | Sumeet Kulkarni

Our Galactic home just got a remodel. Peering through the dust and gas that intersperse our Galaxy, astronomers have found that the Milky Way’s core is less dense than originally thought. This resculpting actually makes the Milky Way “less weird”, says Gail Zasowski, an astronomer at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. The stars and other components of the Milky Way seemed more compact than those of galaxies similar to ours that scientists have been able to see and measure directly.
AI and Euro 2024: VAR is shaking up football - and it’s not going away

Jun 13, 2024 | nature.com | Sumeet Kulkarni

When the UEFA Euro 2024 football tournament kicks off tomorrow, the all-seeing eye of artificial intelligence (AI) will be glued to the action stronger than the eyes of even the most ardent fans. Referees will be able to track any slight motion made by the ball and players, thanks to the latest video assisted referee (VAR) technology. Since its introduction in 2016, VAR has been hotly debated among football fans.
Why cicadas shriek so loudly and more: your questions answered

Jun 3, 2024 | nature.com | Sumeet Kulkarni

As spring turns to summer in the United States, warming conditions have started to summon enormous numbers of red-eyed periodical cicadas out of their holes in the soil across the east of the country. This year sees an exceptionally rare joint emergence of two cicada broods: one that surfaces every 13 years and another with a 17-year cycle. They last emerged together in 1803, when Thomas Jefferson was US president.
The cicadas are here! Why US researchers are swarming to study them

May 31, 2024 | nature.com | Sumeet Kulkarni

The emergence is in full swing. Periodical cicadas (Magicicada) are crawling out of the ground in vast numbers — in their trillions, maybe — across swathes of the southeastern and midwestern United States. And researchers, many of whom usually study other insects, are dropping everything to race to sites where they’ve popped up, eager to collect samples and observe the ecological spectacle.
In a First, JWST Confirms an Atmosphere on a Rocky Exoplanet

May 9, 2024 | scientificamerican.com | Sumeet Kulkarni

Astronomers say that they have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to detect for the first time an atmosphere surrounding a rocky planet outside the Solar System. Although this planet cannot support life as we know it, in part because it is probably covered by a magma ocean, scientists might learn something from it about the early history of Earth — which is also a rocky planet and was once molten.