Search results for automatic virtual environment

Plants & Animals Jul 5, 2022

Eavesdropping on whales in the high Arctic

Whales are huge, but they live in an even larger environment—the world's oceans. Researchers use a range of tools to study their whereabouts, including satellite tracking, aerial surveys, sightings and deploying individual ...

Education May 2, 2022

Artificial intelligence can identify students at risk of failing and provide tools for success

Artificial intelligence offers new opportunities to improve university education. This is demonstrated by the Learning Intelligent System (LIS) project, which has been developed by researchers at the Universitat Oberta de ...

Ecology Feb 9, 2022

Fishing, pollution and rising temperatures: How marine science can help us save the oceans

A healthy sea determines the planet's balance and, in turn, the health and well-being of its people. That is why ocean science has never played a more vital role, helping us to grasp today's deterioration of the world's biggest ...

Biotechnology Dec 21, 2021

Team's virtual reality system for moths may spur development of robots for finding chemical leaks and more

A team led by the Graduate School of Engineering Science at Osaka University, including Professor Daisuke Kurabayashi of the Department of Systems and Control Engineering at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech), has ...

Social Sciences Oct 11, 2021

Automatic entry into career advancing competitions could help women, study suggests

Women continue to be underrepresented in leadership roles, a dilemma a new study suggests could be helped by eliminating self-nomination from competitive selection processes.

Education Jul 1, 2021

A remote laboratory for performing experiments with real electronic and communications equipment

Laboratories are an inherent part of technology qualifications, as practical experiments are essential for students to acquire the competencies and skills that they will need during their future professional development. ...

Evolution Apr 12, 2021

Animals immortalized in 3D by affordable scanner technology

A new 3D scanner, which photographs small animal specimens in meticulous detail, is also being used to teach computers how to spot and track critters.

Other Mar 11, 2021

Mothers in academia address workplace inequalities

As the coronavirus pandemic's grip on the United States stretched from weeks into months, with huge swaths of the American workforce bound to their homes, studies began trickling out revealing that the impact and burden of ...

Plants & Animals Mar 4, 2021

Horny toads are disappearing. Can they be saved?

The legend goes something like this: In 1897, the good people of Eastland, Texas, put a time capsule in the cornerstone of the courthouse being built downtown. In went a Bible, some newspapers, a bottle of whiskey.

Economics & Business Feb 2, 2021

Why using technology to monitor employees at work can be counterproductive

Working from home during the pandemic has led to new ways of life: a new means of social gathering, new means of entertainment and, for many, a new way of working.

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