An interdisciplinary research team from two working groups at the Centre for Synthetic Biology at TU Darmstadt has developed the first RNA-based genetic switch that precisely replicates the logical ...

What if the thermal noise that hinders the efficiency of both classical and quantum computers could, instead, be used as a ...

I still remember the first time I saw a smartphone, back in 2007, at a tech conference in Berlin. A colleague, Markus, pulled ...

In the 1970s, some basic ideas in supposedly useless number theory were deployed by Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir and Leonard Adleman. They developed the RSA algorithm, which enables public key cryptography, ...

A maggot’s age and species can give essential information to forensic entomologists investigating murders. (A single wriggling horse fly maggot, for instance, found on a dead body far from water, gave ...

AI is only as good as the data it learns from. Right now, research suggests 73% of health data in AI comes from North America ...

Schools must evolve to teach digital literacy, genetics, and sustainability—preparing students not just for future jobs, but ...

People with aphantasia have no mental imagery—and they’re offering brain scientists a window into consciousness ...

Under the label of “pride”, dominant-caste superiority is being repackaged for the algorithm age. But where does pride end and caste hierarchy begin, especially in a system that relies on some castes ...

A comprehensive invited review published today in Brain Medicine confronts one of the most persistent paradoxes in modern medicine: psychiatry remains the only major clinical discipline that diagnoses ...

To read the first article of the series, where JEC Composites Magazine spoke with the consortium to describe the motivations behind r-LightBioCom and the foundations of its multi-disciplinary approach ...