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The word we selected for our FBK Dictionary series for the research Center for Health Emergencies is epidemic, a term from which pandemic is derived, arguably the most significant in recent years.

Sensors can be seen as translators that convert unfamiliar words that make no sense to us into familiar ones that help us interact with the world around us

Virtual reality now substantially shapes the collective imagination. On an imaginative level, it is perhaps the most futuristic of concepts: laser projections, holograms, simulations, augmented reality, and three-dimensional helmets are part of a baggage of images and concepts in which the boundaries between science and science fiction, between research dreams and established results, blur.

For a long time, it has been thought that Artificial Intelligence could be useful in censoring hate comments and fake news; however, when thought of in a supportive function to humans, it can be an effective tool for generating counter-narratives, a more democratic and in its own way "rational" means of responding to these contemporary challenges

The "FBK Dictionary" feature articles go on with a historical and contemporary overview of the concept of fundamentalism.

We open the FBK Dictionary column with this article on environmental history, an innovative line of research that is very active at FBK-ISIG.