Why do some well-run technology companies maintain merely stable growth, while others surge? Between 2005 and 2017, Amazon’s revenue increased 28.85 percent, compounded annually, while Google’s grew at a 27.27 percent annual rate. Meanwhile, most of their peers among large…
If you ask any computer scientist what the fastest growing field of the industry is, chances are they’ll reply with artificial intelligence. It is part of our lives in ways unimaginable, and most of us carry on with our lives,…
No one knows for certain what causes Alzheimer’s disease. But one fact about the condition has gained nearly irrefutable status. Depending on what versions of a gene called APOE you inherit, your risk of the brain disorder can be half…
Three paralyzed men are walking again in Switzerland with the help of a team at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. The innovative rehabilitation process the trio went through is now being studied to mimic its results for others in…
The startup, Elevian, which is based in San Francisco, says it intends to explore whether daily injections of a protein called GDF11 can promote “the body’s ability to restore itself” The company builds on research findings several years ago that if…
A person with a brain chip can now pilot a swarm of drones — or even advanced fighter jets, thanks to research funded by the U.S. military’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA. Read more in defenseone It’s Now…
In 2011, Sonia Vallabh was handed a genetic report that contained a death sentence. But it also held a map for how to escape.Her body, she learned, harbored a gene mutation, a single wrong letter of DNA in her “prion”…
The findings, so far demonstrated in experiments with lab mice, could offer a ray of hope for the millions of people worldwide who experience anxiety disorders (including almost one in five adults in the US), by leading to new drugs…
If you could choose any superpower, what would it be? Disappointingly, most of us don’t have a mutant gene that allows for superior capabilities. Turns out humans are 99.9% genetically identical. Yet, there’s a lot of variation expressed within that…
Children are not coming into school with the hand strength and dexterity they had 10 years ago. “Children coming into school are being given a pencil but are increasingly not be able to hold it because they don’t have the fundamental…
