Archaeologists from the University of Copenhagen and the University of Bergen have used AI and free digital tools to create a dynamic and educational video game about the Stone Age. According to the researchers, the new technology, which does not require strong technical skills, has the potential to revolutionize the digital communication of cultural heritage.

On 17 December, in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile, representatives from the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO), the European Southern Observatory (ESO), and governmental authorities gathered to celebrate the official groundbreaking of the CTAO’s southern site, CTAO-South. After years of successful site preparations, the event marked the beginning of construction on the telescope foundations, paving the way for the first telescopes of the first and largest gamma-ray observatory in the southern hemisphere.

The University of Pittsburgh’s Juan Jose Mendoza Arenas and Pennsylvania State University’s Xiang Yang have received a highly competitive New Initiative Grant from the Charles E. Kaufman Foundation to design algorithms and model turbulence using quantum computers. The collaborative, two-year project titled “Small-Scale Turbulence as a Quantum System” seeks to advance understanding of turbulence and the potential of quantum computers to model complex systems. 

TU Delft develops new method for large-scale health monitoring via wastewater

Wastewater contains a hidden wealth of information about the communities that produce it. During the Covid-19 pandemic, sewage monitoring for viral RNA became a key tool for tracking outbreaks. TU Delft researcher Martin Pabst and his team are now expanding this concept with a new method that enables large-scale monitoring of human health and microbial activity through wastewater.