Software you may already use every day can track your productivity for your employer.
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While mRNA vaccines are designed to last longer in the body than mRNA molecules typically would, they are also tested to…
Environmental DNA provides a wealth of information for conservationists, archaeologists and forensic scientists. But the…
In many animals, including humans, adverse events in youth have lasting negative health effects over the life span. But…
Studying the brief and tiny quantum effects that drive living systems could one day lead to new approaches to treatments…
Despite the association of ‘Luddite’ with a naïve rejection of technology, the term and its origins are far richer…
‘Star Trek: Picard’ is set 400 years in the future, but, like most science fiction, it deals with issues in the here…
Genetics expert Jean Bennett explains how gene therapy is being used to treat certain forms of inherited blindness.
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One researcher’s experience from a quarter-century ago shows why bias in AI remains a problem – and why the solution…
Pinpointing where memories are stored in the brain and how they are transmitted could provide new targets to treat neurological…
An appreciation for the moths that chomp holes in your clothes. They eat the inedible, occupy the uninhabitable and overcome…
The idea that the least skilled are the most unaware of their incompetency is pervasive in science and pop culture. But…
From cancer immunotherapy and antibiotics to GMO crops and pandemic surveillance, gain of function is a cornerstone of basic…
As a society, everyone is motivated to regulate AI development. For individual companies, though, the opposite is true.
Ancient microbes likely produced natural products their descendants today do not. Tapping into this lost chemical diversity…