Bavarian Nordic was contracted to develop a safer smallpox vaccine for the US in the early 2000s, amid fears that smallpox could be used as a bioterrorism weapon against the country, says... Read more »

The news: The US Senate Democrats released a bill last week that could significantly cut the country’s carbon emissions. One of the bill’s key components is an extension of electric vehicle tax... Read more »

However, he adds, the timelines are “hugely ambitious,” and the bill is “basically setting targets that people may be unable to meet.” Last week, E&E News reported that climate activists are already... Read more »

The must-reads I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 Chipmakers are already scrapping for the $52 billion CHIPS fundingWhile the cash is a welcome boost... Read more »

I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 Bitcoin traders don’t care about a recessionDebate over the definition of a recession, and whether we’re in one,... Read more »

In announcing the new agreement, Schumer asserted that the legislation “puts the US on a path to roughly 40% emissions reductions by 2030.” And experts agree the bill could be a game changer... Read more »

So what’s important to the world right now? #ClimateScam trended last Friday and drove users to a river of memes about climate change from those who insist it’s a hoax. Earlier this... Read more »

The news: DeepMind says its AlphaFold tool has successfully predicted the structure of nearly all proteins known to science. From today, it’s offering its database of over 200 million proteins to anyone... Read more »

However, for many proteins “we’re interested in understanding how their structure is altered by mutations and natural allelic variation, and that won’t be addressed by this database,” said AlQuraishi. “But of course... Read more »