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The RNA Revolution Is Changing Our Understanding of Biology
Scientific American· 2 days agoGingeras did not intend to upend basic ideas about how the human body works. In 2012 the geneticist,...
Tuna Crabs, Neither Tuna Nor Crabs, Are Swarming Near San Diego
The New York Times via Yahoo News· 4 days agoSAN DIEGO — When Anna Sagatov, an underwater cinematographer, goes on her usual night dives off La...
The ‘Quant King’ who shook the world of hedge funds with his secretive Renaissance Technologies has...
Fortune· 5 days agoAt Renaissance, located about 60 miles east of Manhattan in quiet East Setauket, New York, Simons avoided employing Wall Street veterans. Instead he sought ...
Long Island's debt to James Simons
Newsday· 5 days agoSimons, who died Friday at age 86, is known to the world for his contributions to mathematics, his founding of the East Setauket hedge fund Renaissance...
Jim Simons, a Pioneer of Quantitative Trading, Dies at 86
The Wall Street Journal· 5 days agoSimons retired as chairman in 2021. Simons’s health had deteriorated recently...in basic science....
Remains identified as Vietnam veteran nearly 50 years after farmers chasing pig stumbled upon...
Fox News· 7 days agoThe remains of Vietnam veteran Gerald Francis Long have finally been identified after they were...
Big Range, Big Battery, Big Car?
Road and Track· 6 days agoBatteries – still – don’t have the energy density of petroleum-based fuels like gasoline or diesel. Since 1800 when Alessandro Volta invented the...
She Wanted to Help Strangers. Would They Take Her Up on It?
New York Times· 6 days agoBianca Giaever wasn’t feeling very helpful in her daily life, so she tried to do small favors for...
Practical optimism can be learned. A psychiatrist explains how and why your well-being depends on it
Fast Company Magazine· 5 days agoDr. Varma was the first medical director treating first responders and civilians for PTSD,...
