A new study found that a gene recently recognized as a biomarker for Alzheimer’s disease is actually a cause of it, due to its previously unknown secondary function that triggers a pathway that disrupts how cells in the brain turn genes on and off.

Breakthrough material could transform aerospace, defense and industrial applications.

In a previous post about ractors, I explained why I think it’s really unlikely you’d ever be able to run an entire application inside a ractor, but that they could still be situationally very useful to move CPU-bound work out of the main thread, and to unlock…

Stanford built one of the first office parks in the country. Tech pioneers swooped in.

How I built a simple portable audio player for my boy, summoning the spirit of the Gameboy

The long read: In a Danish palliative care unit, the alternative to assisted dying is not striving to cure, offering relief and comfort to patients and their families

A look at the experiences of activists in East Germany (GDR) dealing with Stasi informants and infiltration before the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.

When a former Disney World employee was accused of changing the menus at Disney World restaurants, it made headlines. And in January, when he admitted to changing the menus — including information about allergy information that could have created serious…

Presentation slides for developers

Or, Why All Means Are Bad

[r/changemyview](https://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/) is a popular (top 1%) well moderated subreddit with an extremely well developed [set of rules](https://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/wiki/rules/) designed to encourage productive, meaningful debate…

CleverBee - The Open Source Deep Researcher Tool. Contribute to SureScaleAI/cleverbee development by creating an account on GitHub.

Power has now been fully restored in Spain and Portugal, as officials continue to investigate what caused the outage.