Antimicrobial resistance is one of the greatest challenges facing modern medicine. A new class of programmable antibiotics known as asobiotics can be used to treat bacterial infections when classical antibiotics fail. A team of researchers from TWINCORE, Center for Experimental and Clinical Inf...
Plastic pollution is one of the most urgent environmental challenges of the 21st century. As larger plastic debris breaks down through mechanical, photochemical and biological processes, it forms microplastics that have been detected in water, soil, air and even the human body. Among these mate...
Fossilized teeth from at least seven shark species have been discovered in the Egyptian desert, hinting at its complex, watery past.
Everyone is asking "should we use agents? " The real question is "when should we NOT? " I keep seeing teams bolt an agent on because it's the hot thing — then discover they reinvented a state machine with worse debugging.
Tim O'Reilly just published an essay arguing that AI is a medium, like photography or painting. His key line: "I judge the output, not the means used to produce it. " He describes his own process: a 300-word prompt becomes a 660-word draft, which he rewrites into a 3,000-word essay.
Some molecules come in two "handed" forms. This property, called chirality, can influence not only how molecules interact with light but also which electron spins they allow to pass. Researchers at the University of Osaka have developed novel chiral hole-transport materials that shed new light ...