What function does your microbiome play in your health? The answer is still a mystery, but emerging scientific evidence suggests it could have implications for treating many chronic diseases. A ...

DISQUIET IS growing about “gain-of-function” (GOF) research, a form of genetic manipulation on micro-organisms. Some anxiety stems from the idea that such work was responsible for creating ...

Using AI chatbots actually reduces activity in the brain versus accomplishing the same tasks unaided, and may lead to poorer ...

Maintaining healthy brain function is no secret, an MIT professor and expert who focuses on diseases such as Alzheimer’s has said. “People actually know what they should be doing” to preserve their ...

What is AI, exactly? The question may seem basic, but the answer is kind of complicated. In the broadest sense, AI refers to machines that can learn, reason, and act for themselves. They can make ...

Entity functions: Stateful actor-like functions that have identities and store state explicitly. Durable Functions can run anywhere that Azure Functions can run, including in the Azure Functions ...

I’ve been writing about dangerous gain-of-function research on viruses for years, originally on the flu virus and more recently on the Covid-19 virus. Many people are deeply concerned about this ...

An MIT graduate created a new kind of shampoo that's worth $110 million. ... Plus, Function of Beauty is valued at a whopping $110 million, according to a person familiar with the company.

Hash functions are a popular building block used in designing secure cryptographic protocols. Bitcoin, for example, uses the hash function SHA-256 in its proof-of-work. (SHA stands for "secure ...

Maintaining healthy brain function is no secret, an MIT professor and expert who focuses on diseases such as Alzheimer’s has said. “People actually know what they should be doing” to ...