Why Wasn’t Tesla Invited to President Biden’s EV Event?
There was a reason. But was it a good reason?
Cross-Border Payment Disruption with Ham Serunjogi
We welcome Ham Serunjogi, Co-Founder of Chipper Cash, how they are planning to disrupt cross-border payments in Africa.
Best of both worlds — Combining classical and quantum systems to meet supercomputing demands
Quantum entanglement is one of the most fundamental and intriguing phenomena in nature. Recent research on entanglement has proven to be a valuable resource for quantum communication and information processing. Now, scientists have discovered a stable …
Researchers pinpoint how PARP inhibitors combat BRCA1 and BRCA2 tumor cells
PARP inhibitors, used to treat patients with cancer of the breast, ovaries, prostate and pancreas, work by inducing persistent DNA gaps in tumor cells with BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations. The discovery offers the potential to monitor tumors for the developm…
Touted as clean, ‘blue’ hydrogen may be worse than gas, coal, researchers say
‘Blue’ hydrogen — an energy source that involves a process for making hydrogen by using methane in natural gas — is being lauded as a clean, green energy to help reduce global warming. But authors of a new report believe it may harm the climate more …
Southeastern U.S. gray foxes may be struggling for survival
A new study suggests competition for food from coyotes — a relative newcomer to the Southeast — may be putting pressure on foxes, particularly the gray fox.
New marmoset species discovered in Brazilian Amazon
A team of scientists has discovered a new marmoset species in the Brazilian Amazon. Schneider’s marmoset is named after professor Horacio Schneider, a pioneer and major contributor to the research of diversity and evolution of monkeys.
CRISPR gene editing tech lead to new insights about hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is the most common of all genetic heart diseases and is the leading cause of sudden cardiac death. It is characterized by an abnormal thickening of the heart muscle, which over time can lead to cardiac dysfunction and,…
Hugh Hayden Confronts the Black American Dream
Hugh Hayden’s works combine elements of spaces in which Black Americans gather, heal, and memorialize.
Ancient Greece and Rome Are Hot in Animation Right Now. Here’s Why.
Animation allows for creators to push the envelope in depictions of sex, violence, and other themes central to myth and history.
How Arctic-alpine plants respond to global warming
Researchers have studied how two characteristic Arctic-alpine plant species respond to global warming. They did this by analyzing almost 500 million of their own readings from the mountainous region of Norway. The analyses show that potential consequen…
Genetic enigma solved: Inheritance of coat color patterns in dogs
Scientists have unraveled the enigma of inheritance of coat color patterns in dogs. The researchers discovered that a genetic variant responsible for a very light coat in dogs and wolves originated more than two million years ago in a now extinct relat…
A mobility-based approach to optimize pandemic lockdown strategies
A new strategy for modeling the spread of COVID-19 incorporates smartphone-captured data on people’s movements and shows promise for aiding development of optimal lockdown policies.
Unprecedented peek into life of 17,000-year-old mammoth
An international research team has retraced the astonishing lifetime journey of an Arctic woolly mammoth, which covered enough of the Alaska landscape during its 28 years to almost circle the Earth twice.