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How Vannevar Bush Engineered the 20th Century
IEEE Spectrum· 6 days agoIn the summer of 1945, Robert J. Oppenheimer and other key members of the Manhattan Project gathered in New Mexico to witness the first atomic bomb test....
Takeaways from AP's report on access to gene therapies for rare diseases
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 3 days agoSuch treatments offer the possibility of one-time cures. Collectively, about 350 million people...
How AI lies, cheats, and grovels to succeed - and what we need to do about it
ZDNet· 3 days agoIt has always been fashionable to anthropomorphize artificial intelligence (AI) as an "evil" force –...
Should social media come with a health warning?
Technology Review· 3 days agoBills designed to make the internet safer for children have been popping up across the US. Dozens of US states sued Meta, the parent company of Facebook,...
Dark Matter Found? New Study Furthers Stephen Hawking's Predictions About 'Primordial' Black Holes -...
Slashdot· 1 day agoOther recent studies have confirmed the validity of Hawking's hypothesis, but the work of [MIT graduate student Elba] Alonso-Monsalve and [study co-author David] Kaiser, a ...
The Shores Of Titan’s Lakes Appear To Be Shaped By Waves
IFLScience· 4 days agoThe lakes of liquid methane and ethane on Titan have shorelines that appear to have been shaped by waves on those hydrocarbon lakes, new evidence suggests, potentially settling an old argument ...
Simple test for flu could improve diagnosis and surveillance
Medical Xpress· 4 days agoThe test, developed by a team from the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and Princeton University,...
Former CDC director predicts bird flu pandemic: What to know
WJZY via Yahoo News· 6 days agoWhat are the symptoms of bird flu in humans? Jon Arizti Sanz, PhD, of the Broad Institute of MIT and...
06.20.24 -- Mission-Driven Dementia Funding With DDF's Jonathan Behr
BioresearchOnline· 4 days agoIf there's anyone qualified to analyze an early-stage therapeutic technology and place bets with other people's money, it's scientist-turned-venture capitalist Jonathan Behr ...
Big Oil Strikes Back
Forbes· 7 days agoThis week’s Current Climate, which every Monday brings you the latest news about the business of sustainability. The Biden Administration has made cutting carbon emissions that are overheating ...
