Companies that are stymied by the pace of change are usually limited by monolithic architecture, legacy systems, and outdated processes. Many of these tools have been functional—or simply passable—for years but have... Read more »
The news: A unique form of brain stimulation appears to boost people’s ability to remember new information—by mimicking the way our brains create memories. The “memory prosthesis,” which involves inserting an electrode... Read more »
“Brain injury patients would be the first [candidates],” says Song. Such injuries tend to affect specific regions of the brain. Injuries to the hippocampus would be easier to target than degenerative diseases... Read more »
Long before Alexander Cohen—or anyone else—had heard of the alpha, delta, or omicron variants of covid-19, he and his graduate school advisor Pamela Bjorkman were doing the research that might soon make... Read more »
The key to the universal vaccine is the mosaic nanoparticle with so many different viral fragments clustered in close proximity on its surface. The immune system’s B cells, which generate specific antibodies,... Read more »
This doesn’t happen with the injected vaccine, which contains a form of the virus that is essentially dead and unable to replicate at all. That’s why many countries have switched to injected... Read more »
I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 Jackson is entering its fifth day without waterThe Mississippi capital’s residents are bearing the brunt of decades of... Read more »
Now it’s responsible for helping to clean up the industry. In July the agency, which has about 600 employees and a roughly $900 million budget, added “and Carbon Management” to its name,... Read more »
Twitter has resisted adding the ability to edit tweets for years, despite it being the most-requested feature from its users, including would-be owner Elon Musk. Former chief executive Jack Dorsey previously said... Read more »
During the covid-19 pandemic, antibodies played a front-and-center role. We used home tests to look for them, and we took vaccines so our bodies would make more.Less attention was paid to B... Read more »