Space invaders: the challenges of studying microbes in space
Conducting research on Earth is challenging enough for most of us, but what if your research specialty is studying organisms in space? Kasthuri… Read more »
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Let’s leverage herbaria impact through Deep Learning
Across the world, museums and institutions maintain herbaria containing millions of plant specimens collected over hundreds of years. Yet this… Read more »
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Instagram photos reveal predictive markers of depression
Research published today in EPJ Data Science finds that early-warning signs of depression can be detected in Instagram posts… Read more »
Improving students’ academic performance – there’s an app for that
A recent article published in International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education makes a case for a… Read more »
Non-destructive 3D visualization of whole-body live insects
Most of us have heard of X-ray and MRI as means for doctors to look inside our bodies. But these imaging modalities can also offer… Read more »
Vladimir Putin and the empty chair: Can people spot fake pictures?
New research published in Cognitive Research: Principles & Implications finds that people can only detect a fake image of a… Read more »
Space invaders…the dangers of fungi in space
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live in space or on another world? One day it may be possible to do so, but… Read more »
Using Citizen Science to Monitor Road-Kills
In this guest blog, Florian Heigl discusses his research that utilises citizen science to collect data on the impact of road-kills… Read more »
Technology of sleep monitoring… consumer beware!
In contrast to gold standard medical sleep monitoring, which entails a full night of monitoring in a lab and hours of specialist… Read more »
Are your tweets feeling well? Opinion and emotion in tweets change when you get sick
Can we tell if a person is physically ill by the way they tweet? On a recently published article in the journal EPJ Data Science,… Read more »