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News - Nostalgia-on-sea

The seaside more likely to make us nostalgic than green places. A new study suggests that coastlines may have the optimal visual properties to make us feel positive emotions.

News - Banking on AI risks derailing net zero goals

With countries such as the UK declaring ambitious goals for both AI leadership and decarbonisation, a new report suggests that AI could drive a 25-fold increase in the global tech sector’s energy use.

Features - Large-scale DNA study maps 37,000 years of human disease history

Researchers have mapped the spread of infectious diseases in humans across millennia, to reveal how human-animal interactions permanently transformed our health today.

Events

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Music - Sounds Green week 3, Beskydy: Wednesday 16 July

The music of Beskydy has its roots in the dance rhythms and songs of Moravia, Bohemia and Slovakia. Sounds Green takes place every Wednesday evening in July on the University Botanic Garden’s Main Lawn.

Exhibitions - Another Chance Encounter – Lubaina Himid with Magda Stawarska: until Sunday 2 November

This new exhibition by one of the UK’s most renowned and celebrated contemporary artists will present new paintings, a special installation made in collaboration with Magda Stawarska and ‘interventions’ in the Kettle’s Yard house.

Exhibitions - Curious Cures: until Saturday 6 December

Health and disease in the medieval world – and how our ancestors sought to cure everything from infertility to constipation – are the focus of a major new exhibition at the University Library.

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