We’re a bit remiss these days in updating the going ons about the Web but we have been paying attention to some science developments.
Here are a two quick items that caught our eye:
- Virtual Reality is effective in treating Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Posttraumatic stress disorder threatens to overload healthcare and social support systems worldwide as the number of cases rises and existing treatments are not sufficiently effective. New approaches to treatment are relying on technology, such as virtual reality, to alleviate the psychologically damaging effects of PTSD…
…Technological strategies such as virtual reality provide a controlled environment in which patients can experience a situation or scenario while learning to cope with their emotional responses.
- PCs around the world unite to map the Milky Way
At this very moment, tens of thousands of home computers around the world are quietly working together to solve the largest and most basic mysteries of our galaxy…
…The project, MilkyWay@Home, uses the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) platform, which is widely known for the SETI@home project used to search for signs of extraterrestrial life. Today, MilkyWay@Home has outgrown even this famous project, in terms of speed, making it the fastest computing project on the BOINC platform and perhaps the second fastest public distributed computing program ever in operation (just behind Folding@home).
