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Researchers have made an incredible breakthrough in the bid to create solar-powered eye implants that could help people with incurable eye diseases. The next-generation tech revolves around powering sensors and cameras in the eye using solar photovoltaic panels.It’s a truly science-fiction solution, but one that could immensely improve the lives of people with vision-related diseases like retinitis pigmentosa (RP) and age-related macular degeneration (AMD). Both of these diseases affect the parts of the eye that…

The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) says it has tightened security of its Level-4 National Microbiology Lab (NML) in Winnipeg years after two scientists were escorted out over concerns about security breaches, but experts worry the back door may still be open to graduate and post-doctoral students affiliated with the University of Manitoba. "We had scientists from a hostile country not only potentially sharing highly problematic material … but in the process, likely, it appears China picked up key operational and…

Bumble has lost a third of its Texas workforce in the months since the state passed the controversial abortion SB 8 (Senate Bill 8), also known as the Texas Heartbeat Act, over a year ago. This new data point was shared by Bumble’s Interim General Counsel, Elizabeth Monteleone, speaking on a panel this afternoon at the SXSW conference in Austin, Texas. The panel focused on the “healthcare crisis in Post-Roe America” and featured women who had both sued and spoken out about the need to have doctors, not politicians,…

Credit: The Conversation Public interest journalism was already under significant stress in Australia. And now the pressure is ratcheting up even further. While still experiencing the pandemic's aftershocks, the industry has simultaneously been hit with the increasing cost of doing business, rising costs of living and declining advertising spend. All…

The New York Community Bank (NYCB) headquarters in Hicksville, New York, US, on Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024.Bing Guan | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesNew York Community Bank said Thursday it lost 7% of its deposits in the turbulent month before announcing a $1 billion-plus capital injection from investors led by former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin's Liberty Strategic Capital. The bank had $77.2 billion in deposits as of March 5, NYCB said in an investor presentation tied to the capital raise. That was down from $83 billion it…

Location of sites visited by archaeologists from University of Leicester Archaeological Services. Credit: ULAS, University of Leicester More than forty archaeological sites in Cyprus dating potentially as far back as the Bronze Age that were thought lost to history have been relocated by University of Leicester scientists working for the Ministry of Defence. …

Elon Musk's pick to be district attorney of Texas' Travis County lost on Tuesday, hours after the Tesla CEO sent a companywide email urging employees to follow his lead.Jeremy Sylestine, a Democratic challenger to the incumbent José Garza, was defeated early on Super Tuesday, with Garza winning by over 30 points. Musk appears to have deleted his post on social media site X endorsing Sylestine.Sylestine ran on a platform to prosecute more cases, invest in public safety initiatives and rely on more jury trials. Musk, who…

Once a year, in August, a middle-aged woman travels to a Caribbean island to lay flowers on her mother’s grave. On the eighth of these pilgrimages, without premeditation, she invites a man who – like her – is sitting alone in the hotel bar, to come up to her room. They make love. Their excitement is mirrored by turbulent weather: there is a thunderstorm and blue herons fly agitated over the lagoon. When she wakes in the morning the man has gone. She doesn’t even know his name. Afterwards, every year, she sets out to…

This month marks 10 years since the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 (MH370), perhaps the best-known continued aviation vanishment since Amelia Earhart in the 1930s. That a Boeing 777—which carries up to several hundred people and, in 2014, cost in excess of a quarter-billion dollars—was able to completely drop off all satellite feeds and communications channels (and by manual settings in the cockpit) was astounding 10 years ago.  As that situation unfolded, Fast Company built a model that analyzed its most…

“Translators are like ninjas,” the Israeli author Etgar Keret wrote in 2017. “If you notice them, they’re no good.” The literary translation community must have felt delighted at this upgrade to their image: no longer dictionary dorks, but lithe, black-clad assassins! The thrilling story of ninja translators is yet to be told, but Jennifer Croft, an eminent translator whose English version of Olga Tokarczuk’s Flights won the International Booker prize in 2018, has put her own spin on the profession with this ambitious,…