Most of us juggle an immense amount of information these days — enough tasks, to-do's, and scattered scraps of mental data to fill up a 40-gallon fish tank. (Just imagine all those tiny little th..

Pilot fish has some extra money in his medical flexible spending account at the end of the year — and he knows it's use-it-or-lose-it time.
“I was nearsighted and wore contacts most of the time,”..

Last week, I casually dropped the term “higher-order function” when talking about memoization. While I feel comfortable throwing around terms like that now, I didn’t always know what they meant. This ..

Many organizations today are taking steps to become data driven by utilizing models, analytics, data visualizations, and dashboards as an integral part of decision making. This is happening in many co..

Microsoft has launched a new open-source project to develop the Bosque programming language. The purpose of the Bosque language project is to build a functional programming language that avoids “accid..

Regular infusions of an antibody that blocks the HIV binding site on human immune cells may have suppressed levels of HIV for up to four months in people undergoing a short-term pause in their antiret..

Farmers rely on phosphorus fertilizers to enrich the soil and ensure bountiful harvests, but the world's recoverable reserves of phosphate rocks, from which such fertilizers are produced, are fin..

A new learning system improves robots' abilities to mold materials into target shapes and make predictions about interacting with solid objects and liquids. The system, known as a learning-based ..

A doctor refutes the most recent hypothesis that 'Lisa' had hypothyroidism and psychomotor retardation.

Biomedical engineers have developed a system that can study 10s to 100s of programmed bacteria within mini-tissues in a dish, condensing study time from months to days. The speed and high throughput o..