Queen Mary university students become the first to have lectures in the Metaverse
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Most education systems are stuck in the industrial age teaching students traditional skills in traditional ways that haven’t evolved much for a century. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, ...
Researchers discover the brain helps kill bacteria and boost antibiotics
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF It’s a well known fact that bacterial resistance to antibiotics has reached crisis levels, now a new breakthrough could give antibiotics a well needed boost. It turns out that our brain might control much more than just our thoughts and physical actions. Announced this week...
World first as scientists sequence the genome of the Ash tree
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF In recent years Ash trees have been decimated by ash dieback disease, now that scientists have sequenced their genome conservations can craft new ways to save them for future generations. The genome of the Common Ash tree, fraxinus excelsior, has been sequenced for the first...
