Detecting dangerous gases in collapsed buildings due earthquakes or explosions and identifying the presence of victims in places which are hard to access are some action scenarios of SNAV (S... Read more
One of the most important and surprising traits of the brain is its ability to reconfigure dynamically the connections to process and respond properly to stimuli. Researchers from Tohoku Uni... Read more
A virtual reality scenario called “We Wait” gives people an immersive experience of the plight of refugees waiting to be picked up by a boat on a shore in Turkey to be illegally taken to Eur... Read more
As a result of climate change, population growth, and rising expectations regarding quality of life, energy requirements for cooling processes are growing much faster worldwide than for heat... Read more
A team of physicists has uncovered properties of a category of magnetic waves relevant to the development of neuromorphic computing–an artificial intelligence system that seeks to mimi... Read more
Researchers from IDIBAPS and the University of Barcelona developed a virtual reality system so that men who committed a domestic violence crime can get into the victim’s shoes. The study, pu... Read more
A team of the Institute of Neurosciences of the University of Barcelona has participated in the design of the first light-activated drug –the JF-NP-26, for the treatment of pain, according t... Read more
What if you could, for a moment, have the body of someone of a different race, age, or sex? Would that change the way you feel about yourself or the way that you stereotype different social... Read more
For the first time researchers have measured large distances in the Universe using data, rather than calculations related to general relativity. A research team from Imperial College London... Read more
At very small doses this compound inhibits the growth of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Bacterial resistance to drugs leads pharmaceutical labs to be in constant search for new antibiotics t... Read more
Using cutting-edge virtual reality technology, researchers have ‘beamed’ a person into a rat facility allowing the rat and human to interact with each other on the same scale. Published toda... Read more
Rapamycin, a drug used to prevent rejection in transplants, could delay the onset of diseases such as Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s Rapamycin, a drug used to prevent rejection in tr... Read more
Practical uses include protecting pacemakers from MRIs and hiding military craft. Researchers from Slovakia and Spain have created an “invisibility” — actually a small cylinder —... Read more
