‘Inclusion and diversity is super important for an organisation like ours,’ says Rebekah Martin, AstraZeneca’s (AZ) senior vice president for reward and inclusion. ‘Making sure that we have diverse teams, with different thinking and an environment where people can challenge conventional wisdom, that’s really at the heart of innovation.’ And innovation is the lifeblood of […]

Advances in assistive technology have removed many access barriers for people with vision loss. But it’s the development of visual prosthesis that has the potential to offer a whole new way of ‘seeing’ the world. The incredibly complex structure of the human eye – with more than two million interacting parts – makes restoring someone’s […]

Humans are pretty good at looking at a single two-dimensional image and understanding the full three-dimensional scene that it captures. Artificial intelligence agents are not. Yet a machine that needs to interact with objects in the world — like a robot designed to harvest crops or assist with surgery — must be able to infer […]

Over the past few decades, Computer Science has become increasingly prevalent in finance and economics. Top financial firms are relying on computers to deliver results. For example, JP Morgan, Chase, and Barclays depend on supercomputers to estimate a stock portfolio’s risk or predict an asset’s future value. How do they do this? In this article, […]

The question is: As to the supply-chain crisis, why did we not see this coming well beforehand? In one such on-air report, one person interviewed regarding the time it took to off-load a container sitting on any of the legion of container ships apparently that have dropped anchor in the waters off the southern California […]

Much like an overexploited ecosystem, the increasingly polarized political landscape in the United States — and much of the world — is experiencing a catastrophic loss of diversity that threatens the resilience not only of democracy, but also of society, according to a series of new studies that examine political polarization as a collection of complex […]

A new Cleveland Clinic-led study has identified sildenafil – an FDA-approved therapy for erectile dysfunction (Viagra) and pulmonary hypertension (Ravatio) – as a promising drug candidate to help prevent and treat Alzheimer’s disease. According to findings published in Nature Aging, the research team, led by Feixiong Cheng, Ph.D., of Cleveland Clinic’s Genomic Medicine Institute, used computational methodology to screen and […]

Scientists in recent years have developed ways to measure biological age by tracking chemical changes in DNA that occur naturally as people age but occur at different times in different people. These so-called “epigenetic clocks” have proved to be better predictors of lifespan and health than chronological age. In a new study, Yale researchers used […]

A sodium-sulfur battery created by engineers at The University of Texas at Austin solves one of the biggest hurdles that has held back the technology as a commercially viable alternative to the ubiquitous lithium-ion batteries that power everything from smartphones to electric vehicles. Sodium and sulfur stand out as appealing materials for future battery production […]

Diamond is having a moment: a new type of diamond, that’s both amorphous and crystalline at the same time, has been made by a team of scientists in the US. Meanwhile, amorphous diamonds have been made in bulk by a team in China. Diamonds are famous for their breathtaking crystallinity, extreme hardness and sparkling beauty. […]