When COVID Almost Canceled the Oscars: An Oral History of a Most Surreal Night

Dr. Anthony Fauci, Steven Soderbergh, Chloé Zhao and Chadwick Boseman’s widow — among dozens of others — speak out in the definitive oral history of a ceremony that was both a fiasco and a miracle: "I ...
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Hoppers Director Reveals 2D Animation Test Clip for Pixar Movie

Following the strong box office debut of Hoppers, director Daniel Chong has shared an early piece of animation created during the film's development. The newly revealed 2D test footage offers a ...
Scientific American

AI techniques speed up forensic analysis of crucial crime scene larvae

To use this evidence, investigators typically must grow the larvae until adulthood in a laboratory setting and then identify ...
Nature

BEAMing: single-molecule PCR on microparticles in water-in-oil emulsions

Binding buffer: 5 mM Tris-HCl (pH 7.5), 0.5 mM EDTA, 1 M NaCl Breaking buffer: 10 mM Tris-HCl (pH 7.5), 1% Triton-X 100, 1% SDS, 100 mM NaCl, 1 mM EDTA Primers 1 and 2 are used for preamplification of ...

Why simulating an entire cell cycle took years, multiple GPUs and six days per run

By simulating the life cycle of a minimal bacterial cell—from DNA replication to protein translation to metabolism and cell ...
Nanowerk

First computer simulation that captures every molecule in a living cell through its full life cycle (w/video)

By simulating the life cycle of a minimal bacterial cell, from DNA replication to protein translation to metabolism and cell division, scientists have opened a new frontier of computer vision into the ...