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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 29-Jul-2025 13:11 ET (29-Jul-2025 17:11 GMT/UTC)

Can math save content creators? A new model proposes fairer revenue distribution methods for streaming services

Universidad Miguel Hernandez de Elche
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Content creators and artists on streaming platforms argue that current revenue-sharing models are opaque and unfair, often overlooking smaller producers. Researchers at the Universidad Miguel Hernández (UMH) in Spain have developed a mathematical model with three rules designed to improve revenue sharing on streaming platforms.

Journal: Omega
Funder: Agencia Estatal de Investigación, Agencia Estatal de Investigación, Agencia Estatal de Investigación, Generalitat Valenciana

Study finds consumer openness to smoke-impacted wines, offering new market opportunities

Oregon State University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Certain groups of consumers appear to be open to drinking smoke-impacted wines, a finding in a new study that could provide market opportunities for winemakers increasingly dealing with the effects of wildfire smoke on grapes.

Journal: Food Research International

Older people in England are happier now than before the COVID pandemic, new national study suggests

Taylor & Francis Group
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Older people have greater general happiness, life satisfaction and sense of purpose than they did before the Covid-19 pandemic.

Journal: Aging & Mental Health
Funder: National Institute on Aging, UK government departments: Department for Health and Social Care; Department for Transport; Department for Work and Pensions, which is coordinated by the National Institute for Health Research, Economic and Social Research Council

Texas A&M chemist wins NSF CAREER Award

Texas A&M University
Grant and Award Announcement

Dr. Alison Altman is using high-pressure chemistry to rewrite the rules of the periodic table—work that just earned her an NSF CAREER Award.

Funder: U.S. National Science Foundation

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University of Texas at Austin
Book Announcement

We’ve all been there—sitting through a meeting that could’ve easily been an email. And that email? Maybe it should have been a quick voice note. And your camera? It’s okay to turn it off. In fact, sometimes it’s even better.

Andrew Brodsky—a Harvard Business School doctoral graduate, award-winning business professor, management consultant, and expert in virtual communication at The University of Texas at Austin—has dedicated his career to unraveling the intricacies of virtual communication. Diagnosed with cancer as a teenager, his treatment led to a lifelong immune deficiency, which has resulted in years of his life being confined primarily to the virtual realm. This personal experience has given him a unique understanding of the challenges and nuances of communicating from a distance.

Sandra Diaz and Eduardo Brondízio, scholars of human-nature interconnection, win the 2025 Tyler Prize with call for policies, business models and individuals to recognize humanity’s 'entanglement' with nature

ReAgency
Grant and Award Announcement

Argentine ecologist Sandra Díaz and Brazilian-American anthropologist Eduardo Brondízio have been awarded the 2025 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement for their work connecting biodiversity with human well-being. They emphasize the interconnected crises of climate change, biodiversity loss, and socio-economic inequality, calling for integrated solutions incorporating environmental justice into policies and business models.

Díaz focuses on embedding respect for nature in legislation and eliminating harmful financial incentives, while Brondízio advocates for addressing socio-economic struggles in the Amazon to improve environmental outcomes. Both played key roles in the 2019 IPBES Global Assessment on Biodiversity. The $250,000 prize recognizes their contributions to understanding biodiversity loss and its societal impact. They will receive the award in Los Angeles on April 10, 2025.

Calls to reform food VAT to encourage healthy and sustainable diets

University College London
Peer-Reviewed Publication

People would be encouraged to eat more healthy and sustainable diets if Value Added Tax (VAT) rates were set based on health and environmental considerations, finds a new study led by UCL researchers.