IntroductionTwo recent papers have shown that during a critical early period of brain development, the gut’s microbiome — the assortment of bacteria that grow...

What was science fiction is now scientific reality: with a series of targeted electrical zaps to the spinal cord, nine paralyzed people immediately walked...

By combining scanning electron microscopy with ultrashort laser pulses, researchers in the US have shown that cubic boron arsenide has an important property that...

Gokul Subramanian Ravi Gokul Subramanian Ravi began his CIFellowship in September 2020 after receiving his PhD (focused on computer architecture) from the  University of Wisconsin-Madison...

Nov 14, 2022In this OODAcast we interview one of our close friends and OODA network members, Jen Hoar.Jen is a former journalist-turned-corporate investigator who has leveraged...

Private companies are playing an ever greater role in space, in many cases with the blessing of national space agencies. Now Japan has issued...

IntroductionIn Newtonian physics, space and time had their independent identities, and nobody ever got them mixed up. It was with the theory of relativity,...

Min Zhuang1, Jiahao Huang2,3, and Chaohong Lee1,2,31College of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China2Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Quantum Metrology and...

A new quasiparticle that is part matter, part light has emerged in experiments by researchers at the City College of New York, US, who...

In searching for planets and studying their stars, I’ve had the privilege of using some of the world’s great telescopes. However, our team has...

CRISPR Cancer Trial Success Paves the Way for Personalized TreatmentsHeidi Ledford | Nature“A small clinical trial has shown that researchers can use CRISPR gene...

Alexandra Merz proposed that Elon Musk is raising more cash to buy Shift4 to accelerate the move of Twitter into payments processing. Jared Isaacman is...