fbpx

university

Treat your Fear of Flying with Virtual Reality

Treat your Fear of Flying with Virtual Reality

VR to fight Fear of Flying (Credit: University of Haifa) A new form of cognitive-behavior therapy offered by the Department of Psychology in the University of Haifa in Israel uses virtual reality to confront one of the more common phobias. ...

Read more

New Technology can Identify Distorted Fingerprints

New Technology can Identify Distorted Fingerprints

Every crime scene investigator knows that warped fingerprints make identification extremely difficult. Now, thanks to a new technology developed at Warwick University in the U.K., partial, distorted, scratched, smudged, or otherwise incomprehensible fingerprints can be identified. The new system enables ...

Read more

Self Modeling Robot

Self Modeling Robot

Researchers Josh Bongard, Victor Zykov, and Hod Lipson from the Computational Synthesis Lab at Cornell University have developed a self-modeling robot that can generate successful motor patterns for locomotion by creating an “internal model” of itself and then adapt itself ...

Read more