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Latvian Company Helps Visualize Hop Test of Reusable Rocket ‘Themis’

To provide the wider public with insight into the stages of the hop test, depicting the anticipated lift-off and vertical landing of Europe’s first reusable rocket demonstrator “Themis”, the Latvian company WIT Berry has successfully led the development process of a 3D virtual experience. This plat…

Labs of Latvia

July 11, 2025

innovation sports science

Developing a Virtual and Augmented Reality Game for Adolescent Basketball Players

Modern adolescents face significant mental strain in their daily lives, combining intense training with demanding academic responsibilities. This dual burden can lead to increased stress and attention difficulties, affecting both athletic and academic performance. As a result, there is a growing ne…

Labs of Latvia

July 8, 2025

innovation research

RSU Develops Tabletop Simulation and Enhances Children's Clinical University Hospital Readiness for Patient Influx During the Song and Dance Festival

Expanding its range of simulations, the Riga Stradiņš University (RSU) Medical Education Technology Centre (METC) has developed an innovative tabletop simulation platform to assess the readiness of medical institutions for the mass admission of critical patients. This newly developed solutio…

RSU Medical Education Technology Centre

July 8, 2025

research research public health

Mathematical Topology Models to Be Studied in a Postdoctoral Project to Improve AI Algorithms for Cancer Cell Detection

In his postdoctoral project "Effective Topological Invariants for Representation Discovery in Image Diagnostics", Jānis Lazovskis, a researcher at the Institute of Clinical and Preventive Medicine (KPMI) of the University of Latvia, will use mathematical topology models to enhance the capabilities …

University of Latvia Institute of Clinical and Preventive Medicine

July 8, 2025

space research

A Researcher from Ventspils University of Applied Sciences Reveals the Conditions that Influenced the Onset of Planet Formation

The planets of the Solar System formed from fine interstellar dust particles. As the interstellar cloud (which would later become the Solar System) contracted, these dust grains gradually stuck together, growing larger and larger. As this process continued in the disk around the proto-Sun, they gre…

Ventspils University of Applied Sciences

July 7, 2025