Imagining and preparing for the future in order to guide research and public policy is the very purpose of foresight. A perilous exercise, scientists point out. And one that requires dialogue between disciplines, along with solid models accounting for multiple uncertainties.
For a long time, audio analysis was virtually non-existent in the world of research. Now, with the emergence of sound studies, architects, sociologists, historians and others are studying the sounds...
Unlike what most geneticists previously thought, the ancestor of modern-day dogs may not be a hundred percent Asian. Man’s best friend could in fact be a cross between two genetic “relatives,” one...
Seventy-one years after he disappeared in Budapest, the Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, who saved tens of thousands of Jews from deportation by giving them Swedish papers, was officially declared...
Scientists are stretching the limits of new technology to develop innovative techniques to improve diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease, as well as provide care for the increasing number of sufferers.
The research vessel Tara sets off to the Pacific on a two-year mission to study coral reefs and assess the unprecedented threats from climate change on this fragile ecosystem, home to 30% of our...
Winner of the startup contest at the 2016 Innorobo international forum in Paris, Axilum Robotics’ TMS-Robot is a huge step forward in magnetic brain-stimulation procedures, pointing to the promising...