Two of the major stock indexes fell on Thursday after hitting record highs earlier in the session. Nvidia’s ( NVDA ) record rise — which catapulted it to the title of the world’s most valuable public company — also took a breather. The S&P 500 (^GSPC) lost about 0.2% after briefly passing 5,500 for the … Read more
For thousands of years, philosophers have debated the purpose of language. Plato believed it was essential to thinking. Thought “is the silent interior conversation of the soul with itself,” he wrote. Many modern scholars have advanced similar views. Beginning in the 1960s, Noam Chomsky, a linguist at MIT, argued that we use language for reasoning … Read more
For immediate release: June 20, 2024 Today, the US Food and Drug Administration extended the approval of Elevidys (delandistrogene moxeparvovec-rokl), a gene therapy for the treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) for ambulatory and non-ambulatory individuals 4 years of age and older with DMD with a confirmed mutation in DMD gene. Elevidys was previously approved … Read more
In a surprising breakthrough, researchers have created a new class of materials called “glass gels” that are semi-liquid but hard to break. Elastic, surprisingly sticky and capable of ‘self-healing’ if cut, the surprising properties of these gels potentially make them useful for a wider range of applications than commonly used plastics, which are either hard … Read more
Artist’s impression of a Type II supernova explosion. These supernovae produce gamma rays and powerful ionizing radiation that is dangerous to life. Credit: ESO Earth’s protective atmosphere has sheltered life for billions of years, creating a haven where evolution produced complex life forms like us. The ozone layer plays a critical role in protecting the … Read more
Amazon started in 1994 selling books. Decades later, this original business is thriving and massively outpacing its digital cousin, e-books. That’s according to a detailed internal document obtained by Business Insider that reveals a wealth of new information and insights about Amazon’s book business and the broader publishing landscape. Reliable data on this industry is … Read more
About 4.5 billion years ago, many scientists say, Earth had an encounter with Theia, another Mars-sized planetary object. When the two worlds collided in a big impact, the mind goes, the debris was shot into space, locked in the orbit of the young Earth, damaged it, and led to the formation of our moon. But … Read more
Researchers at Northwestern University have discovered that structural features of the brain are nearing a critical point similar to a phase transition, observed in species as diverse as humans, mice and fruit flies. This discovery suggests that a universal principle may guide the structure of the brain, which may inspire new computational models to mimic … Read more
Olive Garden Italian restaurant sign showing company logo, Spokane Valley, Washington, owned by Florida-based Darden Restaurants Incorporated. Universal Images Group | Getty Images Darden Restaurants On Thursday it reported mixed quarterly results as Olive Garden’s same-store sales fell for the second quarter in a row. The company has faced a “continually weaker consumer environment” as … Read more
Paleontologists in South Africa say they have found the world’s oldest known burial site, containing the remains of a small-brained distant relative of humans previously thought incapable of complex behavior. Led by renowned paleoanthropologist Lee Berger, researchers said in 2023 that they had discovered several specimens of Homo naledi – a tree-climbing Stone Age hominid … Read more