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A lack of sex held back life’s diversity for millions of years

The way that Earth’s first animals reproduced held back life’s diversity for millions of years, until stress and competition led to the development of sexual reproduction, which in turn accelerated the pace of evolution Researchers from the University of Cambridge studied fossils from the oldest-known animals on Earth, dating from 574 million years ago, and…

Biodiversity, Ediacaran, evolutionary biology, fossils, paleontology, sexual reproduction

Art Leaves the Museum to Embrace People

Artificial Intelligence and new digital experiences are transforming culture into something closer, emotional and shareable, bringing masterpieces and historical heritage nearer to an increasingly connected society For centuries, art waited in silence. It lived behind the thick walls of museums, protected by distance, solemnity and sometimes even intimidation. Great masterpieces belonged to history, but not…

artificial intelligence, cultural heritage, digital art, Digital Culture, immersive experiences, museums

TSTT unveils its renewed multidisciplinary international Steering Committee

The new composition brings together experts from Europe, the Americas and the Middle East to advance the organization's global, sustainable and innovative vision through 2030 The Tourism and Society Think Tank (TSTT) has completed the renewal process of its governing bodies with the re-election of Mr. Antonio Santos del Valle as President of the institution…

Governance, international cooperation, Steering Committee, sustainable tourism, Tourism and Society Think Tank, Tourism Innovation

New ‘universal vaccine’ technology could protect us from future virus outbreaks

A Cambridge-led team has developed a way to engineer better vaccines that could provide broad protection from thousands of variants of viruses - such as coronaviruses or Ebola - in a single vaccine. This represents a fundamental new vaccine technology that could prevent future pandemics before they begin The first human clinical trial of a…

Smarter procurement for better European healthcare

By building a network of procurement of innovation stakeholders, the EU-funded Procure4Health project is helping European healthcare systems move from reactive buying to a more demand-driven approach Across Europe, healthcare faces the challenge of doing more with limited resources. “Procurement usually focuses on buying finished products,” says project coordinator Carlos Larrañeta Gómez-Caminero, from the Andalucian…

Digital Health News, European collaboration, Healthcare Innovation, Procure4Health, public procurement, value-based procurement

Will Banning Personalized Pricing Work?

With AI making it easier for businesses to tailor prices to individual customers, Maryland recently became the first state to prohibit the use of personal data in setting prices. We asked Yale SOM economist Jidong Zhou whether such restrictions are likely to work as intended—and whether they will benefit consumers. Setting prices differently for different…

artificial intelligence, Consumer Protection, digital economy, market regulation, personalized pricing, price discrimination

Startup helps retailers track their products in real-time

Using technology invented at MIT, Cartesian’s system for locating objects could also find uses in manufacturing, logistics, and robotics When you picture a worker at a retail store, you probably think of someone at a cash register or helping a customer. But employees also spend a lot of their time combing through stockrooms and shop…

artificial intelligence, inventory management, real-time tracking, retail technology, RFID, spatial AI

From waste to value: a green process for recycling waste cooking oils

An EU-funded project encourages domestic waste circularity by advancing recycling methods and exploring new starting materials for chemical transformation Cooking oil is one of the most used products globally, with households and the restaurant industry depending on it for the preparation of food. In Europe alone, it is estimated that just one person goes through…

bio-lubricants, circular economy, environmental innovation, green chemistry, waste cooking oil, waste management

Bridging real human movement with digital technology

MIT.nano Immersion Lab collaborates with Emerson College students to advance the art of virtual production “Avatar,” the highest-grossing film of all time, took viewers to a new world, Pandora, and it advanced filmmaking to its own new world: developing the field of virtual production. Leveraging a wide range of technologies such as performance capture, LED…

digital storytelling, film education, Inmersive technology, MIT, Motion Capture, virtual production

Lab-grown brain-spinal cord model shows ‘irreversible’ nerve damage may be reversed

Cambridge scientists have grown miniature circuits in the lab that mimic how the brain and spinal cord connect up, which underlies our movements. They used this model to show how damage to these connections previously considered ‘irreversible’ could, in fact, be reversible As we develop and grow from embryo to fetus to infant, our nerve…