The writer Stewart Brand once wrote that “science is the only news.” While news headlines are dominated by politics, the economy, and gossip, it's science and technology that underpin much of the advance of human welfare and the…
‘Mini brains' grown in a dish have spontaneously produced human-like brain waves for the first time — and the electrical patterns look similar to those seen in premature babies. The advancement could help scientists to study early…
The Financial Times
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Colby Smith
– Nov 15, 9:00 PM
The loan market for highly indebted companies has had a lot to celebrate this year. In May, the so-called leveraged loan market, which is typically tied to the three-month Libor rate (plus a spread relative to the respective risk), and therefore…
The New York Times
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Sheera Frenkel
– Nov 14, 1:00 PM
Inside Facebook's Menlo Park, Calif., headquarters, top executives gathered in the glass-walled conference room of its founder, Mark Zuckerberg. It was September 2017, more than a year after Facebook engineers discovered suspicious Russia-linked…
Addiction treatment has not been appreciably improved by neuroscientific research. One problem is that mechanistic studies using rodent models do not incorporate volitional social factors, which play a critical role in human addiction. Here, using…
