Gazing into computer screens for hours in dry air-conditioned rooms is a likely contributing factor to millions of people suffering from dry eye syndrome (DES)...
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When Danish cyclist Jonas Vingegaard triumphed in the 2022 edition of the world’s largest cycling event, the Tour de France, supercomputing played a part...
Researchers in the BODYinTRANSIT project are studying how Body Transformation Experiences (BTE), or perceptual illusions of body change, can be engineered, to...
The researchers at CERN (the French abbreviation of European Center for Nuclear Research) operate some of the world’s largest and most complex scientific...
The move to e-learning triggered by COVID-19 lockdowns has had both positive and negative implications for tertiary education teachers in the United Kingdom...
When the physicists at Tri-Chandra College in Kathmandu, Nepal, introduced remote education in response to the national COVID-19 lockdown in spring 2020...
Digital technologies underpinned by LEARN (Lanka Education And Research Network) enabled PhD students to continue to participate in a railroad research project...
Heatwaves, floods, and wildfires are among the extreme weather events which are often likely to be linked to climate change. A new initiative will use models...
During any normal year, some 150 future civil engineering undergraduates in Sri Lanka would spend about ten days surveying a real site for a given construction...
Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity has informed our understanding of gravity for more than 100 years. During this time, it has also been subject to...
No one predicted the dramatic and sudden shift in the world of work that happened in March of 2020 when COVID shut down offices and the U.S. experienced the...
The future price of housing is important not just for citizens trying to plan their lives, but also for banks, the construction sector and society as such...
In late March 2020, Roshan Ragel, head of the national research and education network of Sri Lanka (LEARN), received a call from a senior government official...
A partnership between the national research and education networks of Singapore and Finland will strengthen the use of supercomputers to find treatments and...
Supporting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, the world’s shared plan to end extreme poverty, reduce inequality, and protect the planet by 2030...
Despite vast scientific efforts over many decades, prediction of earthquakes remains highly challenging. Now, a collaboration between universities and other...
Universities all over the world are compelled to use ever more resources in order to assure, that applicants for vacant positions actually have obtained the...
With online commerce on a steep rise, the potential for luring customers through false online shops is also growing. Now, however, Switzerland’s national...
How do COVID-19 measures affect our wellbeing? And how will a persons’ emotional status influence to which degree he or she complies with government...
The collapse of the famous Arecibo Observatory Radio Telescope in Puerto Rico on December 1, 2020, was a great loss for science. Still, things could have been...
