Can We Cheat The Brain And Save Energy?
Conditioning of built environments dominates global energy use and greenhouse gas emissions. If lighting can be used actively to stimulate our perception of the thermal…
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Yearly Archive: 2018
Learning In The Brain And Machines
The capacity to adapt and learn with experience is one of the most intriguing features of the brain. The recent dramatic success of artificial intelligence…
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Emotional Competency, Communication, And Bullying In Adolescent Technology Use
Abuse of technologies: What do we know about it? Nowadays, people use their electronic devices in a great variety of circumstances, including on the streets,…
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Investigating The Effects Of PM2.5 On Energy Metabolic Reprogramming
During the last two decades, air pollution has been regarded as one of the toughest challenges facing human beings. As the key indicator of air…
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Transboundary Water Cooperation And The Sustainable Development Goals
Think about what you drank today. Odds are, you drank water at some point. For most of us, particularly in more developed countries, water might…
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Are Our Houses Demanding More From Us?
Winston Churchill once said, “We shape our buildings, and afterward, our buildings shape us.” Buildings grow, adapt, and evolve just like the users that occupy…
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Useful Energy From Wasted Heat
Sustainable energy – a global grand challenge Recent decades have seen an ever-increasing interest in the utilization of renewable and sustainable energy sources such as…
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Hurricane Effects On Plant-Herbivore Networks In Tropical Dry Forests
Hurricane effects are increasing in recent times; every day we hear in the news reports of a new high-impact meteorological phenomenon in different parts of…
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Inflammatory Bowel Disease: How To Obtain An Animal Model That Resembles The Human Illness
Crohn’s disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC) are the two main types of an autoimmune disease called Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD). Since the beginning of…
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The Odd Icy Moons Of Saturn: After Cassini, We Still Don’t Know Everything
Cassini Mission scientists were thrilled when they got permission for a “sneak peek” at Saturn’s mysterious moon Iapetus on New Year’s Day 2005. Soon after…
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Using GPS Units To Understand Where Backpackers Travel In The Wilderness
Understanding visitor use in public parks is important for making decisions about how to best sustain both recreational activities and ecosystems. Specifically, knowing where visitors…
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