The Alameda, California-based materials company has spent the past decade increasing the energy stored in lithium-ion batteries, advances that could enable smaller gadgets and much longer-range electric vehicles. Sila has…
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What happens when your prescription drug becomes a center of Covid misinformation
Friedman says he was forced to change the way he talked to patients when he had to prescribe hydroxychloroquine. “Now I’m working on my script: ‘Hey, I want to start…
Game changer: The first Olympic Games in the cloud
Host at an unprecedented time due to the coronavirus pandemic, the 2020 Summer Olympics (Tokyo 2020, held in 2021 and officially called the XXXII Olympics Games) will be remembered not…
IT security starts with knowing your assets: the Asia-Pacific region
A perfect example of security challenges in remote work occurred when an NTUC employee accidentally downloaded malware to a laptop he used to access corporate files by plugging in a…
Better data on ivermectin are finally on the way
Edward Mills came until the meeting last month with very good data. An expert in clinical trials at McMaster University, Mills presented new results from a study that looked at…
Pigeons, curves and a problem with the traveling salesman
In Mo Willems children `s book Don’t let the pigeon ride the bus!, the protagonist – a pigeon, obvs – uses every trick in the book (literally) to convince the…
3D printing helps make ultra-cool quantum experiments small
To find some from the coldest objects in the universe, you don’t have to go much further than the local university. There, a physicist can use laser light and magnets…
What the training of medical researchers can learn from the “yellow berets”
Gottesman is working with Martin Gellert, who had just discovered the enzyme DNA ligase, the central enzyme for DNA replication and repair. About a year into the program, Gellert took…
To learn faster, brain cells break down their DNA
Facing a threat, the brain must act quickly, its neurons create new connections to learn what the difference between life and death can mean. But in response, the brain also…
Biologists reveal the secrets of “invisible” animals
This story originally appeared on Atlas of Obscura and is part of Air conditioning desk cooperation. As he walked through the Peruvian rainforest, on an eight-hour boat trip from the…