If you study or work in the biosciences, chances are that ‘CRISPR’ has been on your mind for the past five years. That’s Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats. Or, in plain-speak: the easiest, cheapest …
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The odds are high that the phrase ‘quantum supremacy’ will soon cross your desk. In mid-2016 Google engineers announced plans to achieve quantum supremacy in the near-term; the likely timescale is five years, possibly much …
The Beat A fintech love story The big four Australian banks will partner with Western Union, Paypal, and several government authorities including AUSTRAC, the Australian Federal Police, the Australian Tax Office and ASIO, to target …
The demand for lithium has exploded worldwide—up by at least 68% in the past five years. If you’re unfamiliar with the reasons why, it’s easy to believe that its ‘New Gasoline’ moniker is marketing hype. …
The election of Donald Trump in the United States and the triumph of Brexit in the United Kingdom—the two political earthquakes of 2016—resulted from the failure of elites to grasp the discontent roiling politics in …