Technology

This year, genetically modified crops will be planted on an estimated 470 million acres worldwide. The core biotech traits deployed in crops were developed and…
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Nearly of all of us use the internet on a daily basis. We can hardly imagine our life for a second without the internet. Whenever…
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The unique sequence-defined property endows materials scientists with the ability to precisely tailor and adjust the combination of functional groups at an atomic level, making…
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Synthetic biology is challenging our current conception at multiple levels with an unprecedented potential. The aim is the (re)engineering of gene regulatory circuits to end…
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Clustering is a fundamental data analysis technique with applications in engineering, medical and biological sciences, social sciences, and economics. For example, clustering could be used…
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Bacteria have been around for over a billion years and have developed remarkable capabilities to not only cause deadly infections but also to survive adverse…
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The capacity to adapt and learn with experience is one of the most intriguing features of the brain. The recent dramatic success of artificial intelligence…
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Recent years have seen an increase in the number of robotic solutions geared toward social interactions with humans. Social robots are designed to collaborate and…
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There are two venerable rules about how relationships form. We like people who are physically and psychologically similar to us (homophily or propinquity), and we…
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People’s prototype for who scientists are is perhaps made most apparent in what has become a classic social science classroom experiment in which students of…
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We have many computer “hosts” in our lives, from personal computers to printers to cell phones to smart refrigerators. On these hosts are so-called “vulnerabilities” such…
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