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They call it “Judo T-cell therapy,” and it’s 100 times more potent than regular CAR-T cells.
Gum disease begins in the mouth but spreads to the joints. Rheumatoid arthritis is just one of several diseases linked to poor oral health.
Manipulating a signaling pathway in mice reversed their anxiety — and offers hope for a new class of anti-anxiety medications for humans.
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SpinLaunch will cleverly attempt to reach space with minimal rocket fuel. But will physics prevent a full-scale version from succeeding?
From AI to health and the metaverse, this year’s CES promised new tech that will change lives long after the excitement of the latest TV wears off.
Human thinking is antiquated.
Could exercise be more effective than recently approved drugs?
In physics, we reduce things to their elementary, fundamental components, and build emergent things out of them. That’s not the full story.
Merely 256 genetically engineered mice could make an island’s pest population go extinct.
The brain-computer interface will be tested in a six-year trial in patients with quadriplegia.
A new “common-sense” approach to computer vision enables artificial intelligence that interprets scenes more accurately than other systems do.
The model is almost eight hours ahead of a doctor’s recognition of a patient’s deterioration.
Here on Earth, we commonly use terms like weight (in pounds) and mass (in kilograms) as though they’re interchangeable. They’re not.
There’s an extremely good chance that there is, or at least was, life on Mars. But is it native to Mars, or did it originate from Earth?
The secret may lie in an old idiom: “Sleep on it.”
The Solar System isn’t a vortex, but rather the sum of all our great cosmic motions. Here’s how we move through space.
Borrow the same technique that produced McDonald’s, the Hawaiian pizza, the Beatles’ greatest hits, and Shakespeare’s rhetorical flair.
Uploading your mind is not a pathway to immortality. Instead, it will create a possibly hostile digital doppelgänger.
When we view hard work as a sign of low aptitude, it harms our ability to learn and grow.
With crisis management training, organizations can develop the agility to recover from crises with as little disruption as possible.
They say that nobody understands quantum mechanics. But thanks to these three pioneers in quantum entanglement, perhaps we do.
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Former NASA astronaut Ron Garan enlightens listeners with lessons from space to ignite a sense of purpose to unlock potential, navigate change, and create opportunity.
“The movement is much bigger than Sam Bankman-Fried, or any one person, no matter how wealthy,” philosopher Peter Singer told Big Think.
Adams was infamously scooped when Neptune was discovered in 1846. His failure wasn’t the end, but a prelude to a world-changing discovery.
Scientists will be able to make detailed “Claymation-like” movies of chemical reactions.
DESI has allowed astronomers to create an unprecedented 3D map of the Universe representing 20% of the entire sky.