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Goodbye animal skin, your next bag will be made of T-Rex leather
From fossil collagen to luxury handbag: dinosaur skin becomes reality thanks to a process that reconstructs T-Rex DNA in the lab.
Future notes
An Ancient Twin Galaxy to Ours Surprises Astronomers
The James Webb Telescope has discovered Zhúlóng, an ancient twin galaxy of the Milky Way that formed just a billion years after the Big Bang, forcing scientists to rethink cosmic evolution.
Future notes
With the Adidas Climacool the era of printed shoes begins
From limited production to global market: Adidas Climacool with latex structure are ready to change the world of shoes thanks to 3D printing.
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Artificial intelligence
COSMIC-T, the surprising synergy between rescue dogs and AI
The collaboration between rescue dogs, artificial intelligence, and drones is redefining search and rescue operations, allowing us to overcome the limitation of the one-to-one relationship between dog and handler and multiply the effectiveness of interventions during large-scale disasters.
Oh, because language models aren't just "word predictors"
Behind every response of a linguistic model there is a complex neural architecture that reasons about the meaning before even producing the first word, disproving reductionist theories.
Medical Research
2 Gut Bacteria Appear to Trigger Multiple Sclerosis
Gut bacteria Eisenbergiella tayi and Lachnoclostridium may trigger multiple sclerosis, twin study finds.
What Really Happens to Your Brain During a Digital Detox
Scientific studies show that digital detox enhances attention and learning. And no, it's not just a fad.
Italy Next
Organizations and people who make the future.
Hydrocult, hydrogen from traffic: the idea of three young Italian geniuses
Three students from ITIS Volta in Alessandria fly to the USA with hydrocult, an ingenious system that produces hydrogen by exploiting traffic energy.
Solar guardrails, 600 kwh per kw installed: Tecnalia's 'madness'
Tecnalia challenges the impossible with photovoltaic road barriers: improved safety and 25 MWh/km of green energy. Testing underway between Turin and Trieste.
