Virtuelle Welten erlauben neue experimentelle Designs für die Untersuchung von Hirnfunktionen
Verhaltensexperimente sind nützliche Werkzeuge um Gehirnfunktionen zu untersuchen. Standardversuche zur Erforschung des Verhaltens von beliebten Labortieren wie Fischen, Fliegen oder Mäusen imitieren aber nur unvollständig die natürlichen Bedingungen. Das Verständnis von Verhalten und Hirnfunktion ist daher begrenzt. (more…)
By David Spence, Professor of Business, Government and Society; Professor of Law
In the race to build a greener electricity supply, some states are moving faster than others. (more…)
The video, titled “Leaders Made Here,” features students from the UCLA ROTC unit
The UCLA Army ROTC is working to inspire people to choose the U.S. military as a potential career path. Students from the current Bruin battalion appear in the Army’s first virtual reality recruitment video, which can be viewed through nearly any virtual reality viewer, including Google Cardboard, Samsung Gear VR, HTC Vive or Oculus Rift. (more…)
Washington, DC— Geoengineering is a catch-all term that refers to various theoretical ideas for altering Earth’s energy balance to combat climate change. New research from an international team of atmospheric scientists published by Geophysical Research Letters investigates for the first time the possibility of using a “cocktail” of geoengineering tools to reduce changes in both temperature and precipitation caused by atmospheric greenhouse gases. (more…)
New platform designed to support trade finance transactions
4 October, 2017 – 04 Oct 2017: Bank of Montreal (BMO), CaixaBank, Commerzbank and Erste Group have joined an initiative launched by UBS and IBM (NYSE: IBM) in 2016 to build a new global trade platform based on blockchain technology. This new platform, called Batavia, is built to be openly accessed by organisations of all sizes anywhere in the world, and can support trade finance for transactions across all modes of trade, whether goods are being transported by air, land or sea. (more…)
Forensic anthropology researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a technique that can provide an approximate age for juveniles and young people based on an X-ray of the frontal sinus region of the skull. The technique can be used to help identify human remains in forensic cases, as well as to determine age ranges in archaeological research or for living people for whom no records are available. (more…)
Forscherteam unter Beteiligung der Universität Tübingen entwirft ein Szenario im frühen Universum, das die Existenz der rätselhaften supermassereichen Objekte erklären könnte
Jüngeren Entdeckungen zufolge sind in einer Entfernung von 13 Milliarden Lichtjahren supermassereiche Schwarze Löcher zu finden – sie entstanden bereits im frühen Universum. Schwarze Löcher bestehen aus einer derart kompakten Masse, das die von ihr erzeugte Schwerkraft in der Umgebung alle Materie und Energie in die Löcher hineinzieht. (more…)
In the “Planet of the Apes” movies, a boost in brainpower is all apes need to be able to speak like humans. UA primatologists Dieter and Netzin Steklis discuss the likelihood of this scenario. (more…)
