Forget the Nasdaq — Buy This Magnificent ETF Instead
The past few years have been the exception to the norm rather than the norm. A shakeup could be brewing.
Should Abbott and DexCom Investors Be Worried About Vertex Pharmaceuticals?
Vertex might not present a clear and present danger to Abbott and DexCom but could present a clear future threat.
This $22.5-Billion Oil Company Acquisition Could Pay Big Dividends for Investors
The oil industry’s merger wave continues.
2 Reasons to Buy Starbucks Stock and 1 Huge Reason to Sell
Starbucks is trading near 52-week lows, but is that a sign of value or trouble for the coffee giant?
Here’s the Maximum Possible Social Security Benefit at 62, 66, and 70
The differences between claiming ages are magnified when you can max out Social Security.
Should You Claim Social Security at 62 or 70? This Single Factor Should Guide Your Decision
There’s a lot riding on that choice, so it’s important to think things through.
Antibiotic pollution disrupts the gut microbiome and blocks memory in aquatic snails
Antibiotics prevent snails from forming new memories by disrupting their gut microbiome — the community of beneficial bacteria found in their guts.
Researchers expose new symbiosis origin theories, identify experimental systems for plant life
Research work on symbiosis — a mutually beneficial relationship between living organisms — is pushing back against the newer theory of a ‘single-origin’ of root nodule symbiosis (RNS) — that all symbiosis between plant root nodules and nitrogen-fixi…
A drying Salton Sea pollutes neighboring communities
Dust particles from the Salton Sea’s exposed lakebed increased air pollution in local communities, found a new study. The pollution coincides with reduced flows into the lake and diversions to San Diego.
Researchers apply quantum computing methods to protein structure prediction
Researchers recently published findings that could lay the groundwork for applying quantum computing methods to protein structure prediction.
Blood flow makes waves across the surface of the mouse brain
Researchers have, for the first time, visualized the full network of blood vessels across the cortex of awake mice, finding that blood vessels rhythmically expand and contract leading to ‘waves’ washing across the surface of the brain. These findings i…
Do epilepsy medications taken during pregnancy affect a child’s creativity?
While older drugs for epilepsy, taken while pregnant, have been shown in previous research to affect the creative thinking of children, a new study finds no effects on creativity for children born to those taking newer epilepsy drugs.
First hints of memory problems associated with changes in the brain
People who report early memory problems and whose partners also suspect they have memory problems have higher levels of tau tangles in the brain, a biomarker associated with Alzheimer’s disease.
Theoretical quantum speedup with the quantum approximate optimization algorithm
Researchers demonstrated a quantum algorithmic speedup with the quantum approximate optimization algorithm, laying the groundwork for advancements in telecommunications, financial modeling, materials science and more.
Abandoned farmlands could play a role in fighting climate change: A new study shows exactly where they are
The team used machine learning to map nearly 30 million acres of United States cropland abandoned since the 1980s, creating a tool that could guide decisions about how to balance production of energy and food.
Grow the skin you’re in: In vivo generation of chimeric skin grafts
Researchers found that mutated mouse embryos showing an abnormal epidermal differentiation and injected with mouse pluripotent stem cells grew large patches of mature epidermis derived from the donor cells that survived transplantation to adult mice an…
Modular, scalable hardware architecture for a quantum computer
Researchers demonstrated a scalable, modular hardware platform that integrates thousands of interconnected qubits onto a customized integrated circuit. This ‘quantum-system-on-chip’ (QSoC) architecture enables them to precisely tune and control a dense…
Identifying the initial steps in colorectal cancer formation
Research provides new evidence that most colorectal cancers begin with the loss of intestinal stem cells, even before cancer-causing genetic alterations appear. The results overturn the prevailing theory for colorectal tumor initiation and suggest new …
Editing without ‘cutting’: Molecular mechanisms of new gene-editing tool revealed
New research has determined the spatial structure of various processes of a novel gene-editing tool called ‘prime editor.’ Functional analysis based on these structures also revealed how a ‘prime editor’ could achieve reverse transcription, synthesizin…
Graphene gets cleaned up
Engineers establish the link between oxygen and graphene quality and present an oxygen-free chemical vapor deposition method (OF-CVD) that can reproducibly create high-quality samples for large-scale production. The graphene they synthesized with their…