Le Fundtruck poursuit son tour de France. Le camion aux couleurs du concours de startups s’est arrêté à Poitiers, Limoges et Bordeaux. C’est Ramdam Social qui remporte cette nouvelle étape régionale et qui sera à la finale nationale le 3 décembre.

The Amazon Sustainability Accelerator launched in 2022. It has since supported more than 40 start-ups across the UK and Europe – claiming to have provided over £1 million (€1,196,560) in grants and credits, increased the business’ on-average increase sales by 700%, and helped them raise over £15 million (€17,948,905) to date.

Le maïs transformé, ramolli par l'humidité de la grotte, a en effet créé un environnement idéal pour la vie microbienne et les champignons, explique l'équipe. Les grillons des cavernes, les acariens, les araignées et les mouches ont pu très vite organiser un réseau alimentaire temporaire, puis disperser les nutriments dans les différents espaces de la grotte.

Democratic socialists frequently laud the Nordic countries as examples of the success of progressive taxation, generous welfare states, and powerful labor unions. Free marketers have responded by pointing out that not only did these countries get rich long before these policies were implemented, but they also have as much regulatory flexibility as the United States, according to World Bank data. However, we should also point to countries that embraced so-called neoliberalism as a means to getting richer and reducing poverty. It turns out that this strategy has been proven to work and these areas of Europe have living standards that are just as high, if not higher, than that of the Nordics. Here, we’ll look at three examples.

The Lorentz oscillator model, which underlies this unusual observation, predicts that molecules with low resonance frequencies (long absorption wavelengths), sharp absorption peaks, and rich delocalized electrons are more effective candidates at raising the refractive index of the aqueous medium than are conventional optical clearing agents. Our approach also presents opportunities for visualizing the structure, activity, and functions of deep-seated tissues and organs without the need for surgical removal or the replacement of overlying tissues with transparent windows. Some limitations remain for this method, including reduced but not eliminated scattering owing to the challenge of matching refractive indices in heterogeneous tissues and achievable penetration depth depending on the diffusion of absorbing molecules.

Pensé pour accueillir près de 115 000 spectateurs, ce colosse architectural, dont la construction a débuté à Casablanca, devrait être l’un des joyaux du football mondial et pourrait bien devenir le prochain lieu d’accueil de la Coupe du Monde 2030.

Pour cela, ce petit génie en herbe a élaboré une formule chimique composée d’acide salicylique, d’acide glycolique et de trétinoïne, qui favorise l’activation de cellules indispensables au bon fonctionnement du système immunitaire et à la détection d’agents pathogènes potentiels. Il a ensuite ajouté ce mélange à une nanoparticule à base de lipides afin qu’elle ne se dissolve pas avec la mousse du savon et puisse pénétrer la peau.

Nous croyons que tout problème complexe peut être résolu si on s'y met vraiment. Or la résolution de problème est souvent indirecte.

The optimized device achieved a power conversion efficiency of 28.80%, with an impressive open-circuit voltage of 2.13 V, short-circuit current density of 16.06 mA cm−2, and fill factor of 84.19%.

With 380MM MAUs, Roblox probably counts more players than the entire AAA gaming ecosystem, is more played than Disney+ is watched, and is starting to rival smaller social networks in scale. But Roblox has yet to profit. How can it become a business comparable to its operating scale?

We present an overview of the thermal history of the Universe and the sequence of objects (e.g., protons, planets, and galaxies) that condensed out of the background as the Universe expanded and cooled. We plot (i) the density and temperature of the Universe as a function of time and (ii) the masses and sizes of all objects in the Universe.

SCHOTT offers high-end glass panels and wafers with a wide variety of thermal, mechanical, and electrical properties, all adhering to SEMI industry quality standards. Our extensive range of glass types and thicknesses, combined with outstanding bulk and surface quality, positions SCHOTT as a preferred supplier. We deliver scalable, high-quality solutions tailored to the needs of the semiconductor industry, ensuring reliability and efficiency in every application.

Phonon polaritons enable waveguiding and localization of infrared light with extreme confinement and low losses. The spatial propagation and spectral resonances of such polaritons are usually probed with complementary techniques such as near-field optical microscopy and far-field reflection spectroscopy. Here, infrared-visible sum-frequency spectro-microscopy is introduced as a tool for spectroscopic imaging of phonon polaritons. The technique simultaneously provides sub-wavelength spatial resolution and highly-resolved spectral resonance information. This is implemented by resonantly exciting polaritons using a tunable infrared laser and wide-field microscopic detection of the upconverted light. The technique is employed to image hybridization and strong coupling of localized and propagating surface phonon polaritons in a metasurface of SiC micropillars.

It would be unreasonable for innovation leaders to resist cuts in their budgets in the current economic climate. Rather than lament the inevitable, innovation leaders should consider how they might use the crisis to create more value for their company and establish the legitimacy of innovation going forward. The constraints of the current situation provides an opportunity to be more strategic with our innovation efforts.

In 2014, rumors started to circulate that Apple was developing a self-driving autonomous car to compete with Tesla. At the end of February 2024, rumors circulated that Apple was shutting down “Project Titan,” its car program. According to multiple media outlets, the only logical conclusion from the project’s death is that this decision signals the beginning of the end of Apple. As much as I enjoy hyperbole and unnecessary drama, the truth is far more mundane. The decision was just another day in the life of an innovation.

If you have more features, I will beat you with fewer. If you have a broad product line, I will beat you with my singular product. If your solution is big, mine will beat you with small. If you sell across the globe, I will sell only in the most important market and beat you. If you sell to many customers, I will provide a better service to your best customer and beat you. If your new projects must generate $10 million per year, I will beat you with $1 million projects. If you are slow, I will beat you with fast.

We’ve all said it. We need to think “outside the box.” But what is this box-like barrier that would otherwise constrain our thinking, and how do we move beyond it?

You are a natural-born problem solver. From the moment you were born, you’ve solved problems. Hungry? Start crying. Learning to walk? Stand up, take a step, fall over, repeat. Want to grow your business? Fall in love with a problem, then solve it more delightfully than anyone else. Did you notice the slight shift in how you solve problems?

The truth is that there is no one path to innovation. Everybody has to find their own way. Just because someone had success with one strategy, doesn’t mean that it’s right for the problem you need to solve. So the best advice is to gather as many tools for your toolbox as you can. Here are four things about innovation you rarely hear, but are crucially important.

Doing nothing fuels creativity and innovation, but that fuel is wasted if you don’t put it to use. Idleness clears the mind, allowing fresh ideas to emerge, but those ideas must be acted upon to create value. Why is doing something with that fuel so difficult?