AI-designed antivirals could battle next pandemic
As Bill Gates sees it, there are three main threats to our species: nuclear war, climate change and the next global pandemic. Speaking on pandemic preparedness at the Munich Security…
Heroin vaccine works in primates
P. Rajendran Around the time opioid prescriptions were peaking in 2011, presaging a new wave of addicts, Kim Janda and his group at the Scripps Research Institute came up with…
There are easier ways to split water
Splitting water for energy is clearly the hot new thing. Just a few days ago, Paul C. W. Chu of the University of Houston, and founding director of the Texas…
Neil deGrasse Tyson on journalism and science
Researcher brings the house down at a function to honor his work promoting science
Supercapacitors from scrap tires
Flexible polymer carbon composite films could create flexible electrodes, says study Some of the 300 million tires discarded each year in the United States alone could be used in supercapacitors…