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Special Feature: Ready Player...You? Welcome to the Virtual Reality Revolution
Summary:
The projects showcased in this month’s special feature have all been funded through the EU’s Horizon 2020 programme
and highlight both the entertainment and practical sides of VR, a technology that has been rapidly expanding thanks to the ongoing VR Revolution. Project of the Month highlights a board game from the GEARING ROLES project, a project heavily focused on gender roles and fostering gender equality that tasks players with winning a Nobel Prize, while providing tips and assistance from some of the world’s more prominent female Nobel laureates. Life After meets the innovative French SME WeCo that has pioneered a sustainable circular economy-compatible outdoor toilet through the EU-funded RecycLoo project and finds out their progress since the formal end of the project. Finally, EU Agenda provides details on some of the (still mostly online) events taking place across Europe and the world.
Contents:
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- Health
- A 1-hour test to diagnose children with fever
- An injectable polymer for the fast track delivery of pain medication
- Innovative approach to protecting women's rights during childbirth
- Society
- How do international courts develop international criminal law?
- Slavery in the Mediterranean region during the Early Modern Age
- How children learn language in complex social settings
- Project of the Month
- How a wonderfully original board game aims to promote gender equality and encourage a new generation of researchers
- Energy
- High-voltage storage could soon move from the margins to the mainstream
- The story of added value to storage in distribution systems
- The winds of change are bringing automation to turbine blade inspection
- Climate Change and Environment
- Bridging the climate innovation gap
- Tiny material, big problem: assessing the impact of nanocomposite pollutants
- Special Feature
- Ready player...you? Welcome to the Virtual Reality revolution
- Food and Natural Resources
- Digitising Europe's forests with the help of satellites
- Plenty more fish in the sea?
- Industrial Technologies
- New microwave microscopy platform spurs development of high-quality semiconductor materials
- Novel exoskeleton chair supports factory workers
- Soft hands help to solve a hard problem in robotics
- Life After...
- Catching-up with RecycLoo: A sustainable public toilet solution is flushed with success due to exciting worldwide commercial opportunities
- Digital Economy
- Deep learning transcends the edges of our imagination
- Novel platform helping to achieve work-life balance
- Security
- Eyes and ears everywhere to protect Europe's ports
- Using your fingerprint as a password
- Fundamental Research
- Measuring and understanding the Earth's wobble with greater accuracy
- Genome study on small fishes reveals the underlying forces that drive repeated evolution
- How birds navigate barriers to long-distance migration
- Agenda
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