Author: Kaja Šeruga

More comfort, less carbon: Clearing hurdles to deep building renovation across Europe

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Dr Marika Rošā, an expert on energy efficiency from the Technical University in Riga, wishes that everyone would just stop talking about it. “I think the term energy efficiency shouldn’t be used anymore because people don’t care about it.”  Her colleague Nicholas Stancioff, the founder of NGO Ēkubirojs, which is behind the so-called deep renovation of […]

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Pain and perception – exploring the mind-body connection in treating chronic pain

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In a small room at Maastricht University in the Netherlands, a woman wearing a virtual reality headset is busy stacking virtual books onto a virtual bookcase. Every time she bends down, electrodes deliver a sharp zap of electricity to her lower back under the watchful eyes of a researcher tracking her performance, reactions and eye […]

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