For the first time, MIT chemists have synthesized a fungal compound known as verticillin A, which was discovered more than 50 years ago and has shown potential as an anticancer agent. The compound has ...

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Deep learning models have shown great potential in predicting and engineering functional enzymes and proteins. Does this prowess extend to other fields of biology as well? Contrary to expectations, a ...

The social model of disability frames disability as something that is created by society, rather than only by medical conditions or physical differences. The model acknowledges that people have ...

Singapore-based AI startup Sapient Intelligence has developed a new AI architecture that can match, and in some cases vastly outperform, large language models (LLMs) on complex reasoning tasks, all ...

Kristi Noem, the secretary of homeland security, couldn't define habeas corpus when asked to do so at a recent Senate hearing, instead flipping the constitutional provision into a presidential ...

Tariq Hassan, chief marketing and customer experience officer for McDonald’s. Photos: Getty Images This is a story about planning, remembering, and the marketing at McDonald’s. It starts with the ...

President Biden said former President Carter, who died Sunday, “lived a life measured not by words but by deeds.” In a Sunday night speech from the U.S. Virgin Islands, Biden added that Carter was “a ...

At the end of a term, a president often uses their power to fulfill a kind of "wish list" of actions. On Thursday, President Joe Biden announced he is commuting prison sentences for nearly 1,500 ...