Author: BLAISE ROUVIER

Artificial Intelligence (AI) will have covered most of the skills and qualities that the present youth devotedly regards as keys to success in the future. The first wave of AI replaced humans in physically repetitive tasks. That shift gave rise to our current "Thinking Economy". And now?If you expect to have a viable career, you better get in touch with your emotions. This is the message from marketing professor Roland Rust at the University of Maryland. The economy ahead is the "Feeling Economy". Rust believes that we are already into it -- the shift in feeling as being more significant, not only in terms of employment growth but also in terms of another perk.There is greater compensation growth in feeling than there is in thinking. "This is really across the board -- you name a job and we can show a shift from thinking to feeling."People need to get used to the idea of AI doing more....

Cells divide. Cells divide and replace old or damaged cells. This is why biologists wonder how old are cells in our body, in an organism. One general idea is that nerve cells (neurons) are old, while other cells in the body are relatively young and they regenerate throughout an organism's lifetime. But, by any chance, could there be other organs that have cells as long-lived as neurons in the brain?Since most neurons are not replaced during the lifespan, researchers are able to use them as an "age baseline" to compare other non-dividing cells. That is exactly what scientists at Salk Institute did. They combined electron isotope labelling with a hybrid imaging method (MIMS-EM). This is to visualise and quantify cell and protein age and turnover in the brain, pancreas and liver in young and old rodent models. They found that, as was to be suspected, neurons are as old as the organism.Yet, surprisingly, the cells that line blood vessels (endothelial...