Number of words: 1,058 The entrance to the U.S. Army Natick Soldier Systems Center is busy and confusing. Based on how much the soldier at the gate my Uber driver and I pulled up to was shouting at us, we were not doing a great job of navigating that entrance. But after a few phone … Read more
Number of words: 1,637 Solar energy is crucial to many futures. On the micro level, there’s a booming solar industry in America and across the globe. Since Congress passed a tax credit in 2006, the Solar Energy Industry Association (SEIA) says that the industry has been averaging an annual growth rate of 50 percent in … Read more
Number of words: 1,101 We’re quite familiar with how matter behaves. For example, you intuitively know how hard you need to bounce a ball on the floor to allow it to jump over a barrier. But we don’t have the same kind of handle on subatomic particles. If you need an electron to cross a … Read more
Number of words: 398 When able, humans use their senses in tandem. Hearing a voice, a person turns around to see if it’s their friend. Touching an object can offer tactile information, but viewing it can confirm its true identity. But robots can’t use their senses in tandem as easily, which is why scientists at … Read more
Number of words: 876 Once upon a time there was a Greek, an Englishman, a German and a Spaniard. They decided they would each write a story that would do its best to explain the human condition. The Greek said, I’m going to write about a man who’s tossed about on the seas after a … Read more
Number of words: 5,050 “It’s not true that no one needs you anymore.” These words came from an elderly woman sitting behind me on a late-night flight from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C. The plane was dark and quiet. A man I assumed to be her husband murmured almost inaudibly in response, something to the … Read more
Number of words: 850 Scientists at Harvard University, collaborating with researchers at Bio-Rad Laboratories, have developed a new platform for rapid single-cell sequencing. The approach combines microfluidics and novel software to scale up single-cell ATAC-seq, which identifies parts of the genome that are open and accessible to regulatory proteins.Published in Nature Biotechnology, the innovation signals … Read more
Number of words: 1,282 Tamil is not as emotive an issue for the people of Tamil Nadu, as it is made out to be by the Tamil television channels and English media. If it is so, it is neither reflected in the state’s education system, nor in the education choices of Tamilians.Just a few days … Read more
Number of words: 2,262 For a city that is fixated with its housing, real estate opportunities and acquiring homes with a view, finding a space to call your own in Mumbai carries its own form of trauma. If the rents and EMIs don’t knock the life out of you, it’s the negotiations on the transactions … Read more
Number of words: 596 It was the evolutionary leap that defined the species: while other apes ambled around on all fours, the ancestors of humans rose up on two legs and, from that lofty position, went on to conquer the world. The benefits of standing tall in the African savannah are broadly nailed down, but … Read more
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