Do We Have to Give Up Our Personal Freedoms to Beat Coronavirus? . In late December 2019 Dr. Li Wenliang, an ophthalmologist at Wuhan Central Hospital, sent a WeChat message to his medical school alumni group telling them that seven people with severe res

A Coronavirus Vaccine Could Be the First That Outwits Nature . It’s been grim news all around for COVID-19. Italy’s skyrocketing death toll has now risen above China’s. Countries are shutting borders. Massive cities in the US have ordered “shelter-in-plac

After Coronavirus the World Will Never Be the Same. But Maybe, It Can Be Better . Life has changed a lot in the past few days, weeks, or months, depending where you live. As efforts to contain the novel coronavirus ramp up, it’s likely going to change eve

Is Digital Learning Still Second Best? . As Covid-19 continues to spread, the world has gone digital on an unprecedented scale. Tens of thousands of employees are working from home, and huge conferences, like the Google I/O and Apple WWDC sof...

Coronavirus May Mean Automation Is Coming Sooner Than We Thought . We’re in the midst of a public health emergency, and life as we know it has ground to a halt. The places we usually go are closed, the events we were looking forward to are canceled, and s

On the Front Lines of Developing a Test For the Coronavirus . “That escalated quickly!” is a common trope used in popular culture to describe when a situation gets out of hand before you’ve even had a chance to think about it. We don’t often use this trop

DeepMind’s Protein Folding AI Is Going After Coronavirus . In late December last year, Dr. Li Wenliang began warning officials about a novel coronavirus in Wuhan, China, but was silenced by the police before tragically succumbing to the disease two months

DeepMind’s Protein Folding AI Is Going After Coronavirus . In late December last year, Dr. Li Wenliang began warning officials about a novel coronavirus in Wuhan, China, but was silenced by the police before tragically succumbing to the disease two months

To Turbocharge Anti-Aging Treatment, Just Add... a Protein Found in Fruit Flies? . The hunt for the elixir of life is such a universal mythological trope that to talk about it in the context of science seems almost ridiculous. But breakthroughs in the las

Huge $161 Million Investment Means Meat Without the Animal Is Here . In 1931, Winston Churchill made a bold prediction: “We shall escape the absurdity of growing a whole chicken in order to eat the breast or wing, by growing these parts separately under a