Synthetic nucleic acids are a key input to modern biotechnology, yet they represent dual-use materials that require robust screening to mitigate biosecurity risks. The prevailing screening paradigm, ...

The same spiral has been found everywhere; in sunflower seeds and pinecones, snail shells and animal horns, and the placement of tree branches. The underlying numbers are found in the genealogy of ...

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This collection of articles highlights the rapid integration of computational and machine learning approaches in the study of proteins, immunology, and pathogen-host interactions. Several works focus ...

This month’s theme is: Keep an eye on the future but hone your coding craft in the now. Start here, with nine timeless JavaScript coding concepts, a look at Nitro.js—fast becoming the go-to server ...

A variation of a puzzle called the “pick-up sticks problem” asks the following question: If I have some number of sticks with random lengths between 0 and 1, what are the chances that no three of ...

If you’re a Java developer and you haven’t built an AWS Lambda function before, you’ll be amazed by how easy it is to get your first serverless application up and running. To build your first Java AWS ...

The Alters is a sci-fi management game in which you remix your character's life history in a "Quantum Computer" to generate a workforce of deeply disturbed, borderline non-functional clones. In a ...