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Think remote workers helped cut back on car emissions? Think again

A project by the EcoVision Lab at ETH Zurich expects to have every quarter of the tropics mapped and classified by carbon stock by the end of the year, providing a complete picture of which lands store the most carbon and allowing companies to track deforestation in their supply chains. The map is being constructed […]

Prior to the advent of remote schooling on electronic devices ushered in by COVID-19, doctors and researchers at the Children’s Vision Lab in the Back Bay’s New England College of Optometry (NECO) were concerned about how those devices might be contributing to nearsightedness (known as myopia) in young people. Now, with vastly greater amounts of time spent looking at a device without breaks, the concern has grown even greater, and the researchers are conducting informational sessions around the city and also looking for volunteers to help them further study the issue. Dr. Fuensanta Vera-D...

Imec develops 4D scanner for heart surgery The imec.icon project DIASTOLE, involving VUB, UZ Brussels and Imec, is paving the way to safely implement 4D scans in cardiac surgery, raising the prospect of heart specialists could being able to test the placement of a new heart valve before surgery. 4D CT scanners add the dimension of time to three-dimensional images and capture the movement of the heart in detail. The heart is an organ that is constantly moving and therefore hard to visualize. In cardiovascular procedures, it is often difficult to estimate how the heart will react to a stent or ...

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