The Wired Campus reports about the project at the UCLA (University of California at Los Angeles) aiming to explore the ancient Egyptian site of Karnak by using VR techniques.
Willeke Wenderish, an associate professor of Egyptian archaeology at the named University has actually used modeling and virtual simulation to learn, and now present and explain, how [...]

An interesting interpretation on Radio Canada of an even more interesting science project (where do people get these ideas?!) carried out by a team on University Paris Descartes (Paris, France).
The paper is named "Neonatal Stepping in Relation to Terrestrial Optic Flow". In brief, the researchers  suspended a bunch of 3-day-olds above moving images representing forward [...]

Robert Bloomfield from Metanomics reported recently in a post on Terra Nova about a panel discussion held in Second Life on the roles and merits of qualitative and quantitative methods in cultural anthropology (yeah, yeah, it's philosophy. Useless, you'd say? ). Here is a prediction they made :
Enterprising young scholars who are interested in cultural [...]