A new chip architecture from IBM can integrate nearly 100 billion transistors on a chip the size of a human fingernail—nearly twice the transistor density of the company’s previous generation of chip ...
Across the world, populations are aging rapidly as people live longer and fertility rates continue to decline. Asia is at the vanguard of this demographic shift. The number of older adults (aged 60 ...
In 1998, a scientist and a philosopher walked into a bar and ordered a drink. It’s not the beginning of a joke, but a consequential encounter between Christof Koch, a young German-American ...
Scientists may have discovered a new role for the cerebellum, the part of the brain that sits at the base of the skull. A new paper published in the journal Nature Neuroscience reports that different ...
On June 29, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) will convene a hearing to consider whether marijuana should finally be removed from Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act, the federal ...
The key to curing skin cancer may lie in one of the most remote, inhospitable places on Earth. Scientists have found a species of sea squirt in Antarctica that produces a bacterium containing a toxic ...
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Healthcare policy is increasingly justified through the language of numbers, yet numerical precision does not guarantee sound reasoning. Some of the most damaging public health controversies, from ...
If you simply say the name “Albert Einstein” and ask people what comes to mind, many of them will simply repeat his most famous equation, whether they know what it means or not: E = mc². In plain ...
Scientists have shown that the stride length of the front legs (but not the hind legs) of senior and geriatric dogs decreases ...
All living great apes - chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans - laugh. But until now, it has been unclear how our ...
In many neurodegenerative diseases such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), Alzheimer’s and FTD, toxic levels of proteins ...
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