NFTs Explained: Why People Are Paying Millions for Digital Art
On March 11, 2021, Christie’s auction house sold a digital artwork called ‘Everydays: The First 5000 Days’ by an artist known as Beeple for $69.3 million — making it the … Read More
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DeepMind Cracks the Protein Folding Problem — and Changes Biology Forever
In November 2020, Google’s artificial intelligence research lab DeepMind announced that its AlphaFold2 system had achieved something biologists had been trying to accomplish for more than fifty years: accurately predicting … Read More
The mRNA Vaccine Revolution: How Science Did the Impossible in Ten Months
On December 8, 2020, a 90-year-old grandmother named Margaret Keenan became the first person in the world to receive a fully approved COVID-19 vaccine outside of a clinical trial. Sitting … Read More
5G Is Here: What It Really Means for Your Life
After years of promises, hype, and dangerous misinformation — including the unfounded claim that 5G towers were somehow linked to the spread of COVID-19, which led to the arson of … Read More