He last turned heads by funding budding entrepreneurs who quit college to start businesses. Now Thiel's Breakout Labs is doing the same for scientists, granting $50,000 to $350,000 to entrepreneurial-minded free radicals. READ»
When cataloging images of tuberculosis cells became too daunting for a research team at Harvard, they turned to crowdsourcing, and discovered that the masses have the ability to dramatically change the course of scientific research.READ»
To add some powerful new data to doctors and scientists understanding of birth, a baby was just born for the first time inside an MRI machine. The amazing images needed some innovative adaptions of medical obstetric tech so everything worked.READ»
A microbe found in a Californian lake is alive but its DNA includes a different material to everything else living on Earth: Arsenic. It's proof positive, says NASA, that E.T. is out there.READ»
Neri Oxman is the polymath MIT Media Lab fellow who graced the cover of our Most Creative People issue for her work tearing down the traditional walls in architecture and engineering. Here she discusses her notion of a new design ...READ»
A new trick invented by a team of scientists at University College London has greatly improved the chances for creating artificial tissue--they can weave threads made of stem cells into almost any shape. Ultimately this could lead ...READ»
In the October edition of Fast Company Magazine, Gregory Berns wrote an article entitled “Neuroscience Sheds New Light on Creativity”, which I think is fascinating. Read it here.
The article essentially explains that our ...READ»
In the October edition of Fast Company Magazine, Gregory Berns wrote an article entitled “Neuroscience Sheds New Light on Creativity”, which I think is fascinating. Read it here.
The article essentially explains that our ...READ»
