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The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

You open YouTube Shorts while waiting for your coffee. A couple of videos, you think. Thirty minutes later, you're still scrolling. The brain is buzzing, time is gone. YouTube Shorts isn't just a ...

Every time a new slang word gets coined on the Internet, linguist Adam Aleksic is thrilled. “It’s definitely good for me in that I stay in business,” says Aleksic, who studies the origins of words and ...

Twist Bioscience's growth continues to moderate, in part due to macro headwinds. While Twist's focus on transitioning to profitability in the near-term has significantly reduced cash burn, it has also ...

TWIST. By Colum McCann. Random House. 239 pages. $28. The ostensible subject of “Twist” is the network of undersea cables that transmit information which often is inane, absurd or untrue, but upon ...

Ever wondered how social media platforms decide how to fill our feeds? They use algorithms, of course, but how do these algorithms work? A series of corporate leaks over the past few years provides a ...

As President of Backbone Media, Greg Williams helps lead one of the nation’s leading outdoor and lifestyle marketing agencies, but his drive has always gone deeper than business. Over the past two ...

What if a biotech company could flip its financial narrative from loss to profit in just a year? Twist Bioscience Corporation (NASDAQ:TWST) has done just that, reporting a surprising third-quarter ...

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