Paul Allen, that other Microsoft founder, announced a $100 million donation today that will establish a cell science institute in Seattle. The Allen Institute for Cell Science will study the structure… Read more »
The panel’s report states that it is unclear that the rover’s original science goals have been met, and what exactly it will accomplish in the future. Read more »
Sure, there the usual assortment of “X for Y” startups, but science and bitcoin companies abounded at startup accelerator Y Combinator’s Summer 2014 demo day. Read more »
Facebook is constantly experimenting on its users by tweaking the newsfeed in both large and small ways, a former member of the company’s data science team confirms, and some of the… Read more »
A study manipulated the news feeds of hundreds of thousands of Facebook users in an attempt to show that emotional responses can be affected by the behavior of our social connections,… Read more »
NASA is launching a new challenge, hosted on Amazon Web Services, that gives the public access to a trove of earth sciences data and computational resources in the name of discovering… Read more »
Born without the ability to see color, artist Neil Harbisson decided to use technology to invent a new sense, so he implanted a chip in his skull and attached a flexible… Read more »
Mice live roughly up to two years. Send them to the International Space Station for 6 months, and you can potentially tell the effects space has on a mammal over a… Read more »