FAST catches a real pulse from FRB 121102. Credit: NAOC The energetic phenomena known as Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are one of the greatest cosmic…
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Researchers are working on touch screen technology that would allow people to “feel” physical objects—including, for example, the texture of an item of clothing’s fabric…
Sean McDermott Contributor Sean McDermott is the founder and CEO of RedMonocle, a SaaS-based risk intelligence software designed to help cybersecurity leaders find, fund and…
A new study from MIT offers an explanation for why restricting calories may slow tumor growth. Credit: Christine Daniloff, stock image A new study finds…
Cognitive bias leads to AI bias, and the garbage-in/garbage-out axiom applies. Experts offer advice on how to limit the fallout from AI bias. Image: Shutterstock/metamorworks…
Hello and welcome back to Max Q. The era of commercial space stations is here. Read on for news from Nanoracks, Voyager and Lockheed Martin…
Mini-brain organoids showing cortex-like structures. Credit: Andras Lakatos/University of Cambridge Cambridge researchers have developed ‘mini brains’ that allow them to study a fatal and untreatable…
Chicago-based Promus Ventures has closed a €120 million ($139 million) space fund, dubbed Orbital Ventures, focused on early-stage space companies. The new fund, which will…
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An MIT study suggests that a mysterious gap existed within the solar system’s protoplanetary disk around 4.567 billion years ago, and likely shaped the composition…
U.S. social networking giant Facebook reported its Q3 financial results today after the bell. It reported $29.0 billion in total revenue and earnings per share…
Seems like the goal of every startup is to exit via IPO, and if you can’t do that, by way of acquisition. In many cases,…
After dragging the same companies and their reticent, overtrained executives in time and time again, Congress is turning its attention to two of the tech…
With cybersecurity threats to the federal government increasing by the day, agencies need a revamped cybersecurity process—but this must go beyond simply implementing cyber tools.…
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Microscopy image of a living E. coli bacterium, revealing the patchy nature of its protective outer membrane. A densely packed network of proteins is interrupted…
Radio has long been described as the most intimate of media. Quips about putting radio on the internet aside, the persistent popularity of podcasting and…
YouTube says it will soon begin to demonetize some of the channels on its platform that market themselves as “made for kids” if the content…
Astronomers have found evidence for a possible planet candidate in the M51 (“Whirlpool”) galaxy, representing what could be the first planet detected outside of the…