Funded by private investors and governments, cancer tests of blood and urine are coming to market. How much does it cost to bring to market a diagnostic test that’s able to measure cancer wi... Read more
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It looks like a miniature shark is sitting in that clear cube. But it’s all an illusion–an illusion that could have a big future. If you think 3-D printing will change the world,... Read more
Engineers in the Coordinated Robotics Lab at the University of California, San Diego, have developed new image processing techniques for rapid exploration and characterization of structural... Read more
The groundbreaking regime for herbal study and testing called quantitative-pattern-activity-relationship (“QPAR” in short) verifies the quality and health benefits of traditional herbs When... Read more
What do soaring Chinese wages mean for global manufacturing? TRAVEL by ferry from Hong Kong to Shenzhen, in one of the regions that makes China the workshop of the world, and an enormous bil... Read more
We didn’t expect this approach to work as well as it did Computers can mimic the human ability to find visually similar images, such as photographs of a fountain in summer and i... Read more
Boston’s dominant institutions Harvard and MIT (the Massachusetts Institute of Technology), business and strengthening start-up and arts network kept the city number one overall global... Read more
Can you hear me now? THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN C. H. Tung, the first Chinese-appointed chief executive of Hong Kong after the handover in 1997, offered me a three-sentence summary the other day of... Read more