Science and engineering

Cytokinetics, Inc. (Nasdaq:CYTK) today announced that additional results from COSMIC-HF, a Phase 2 trial evaluating omecamtiv mecarbil in patients with chronic heart failure, were presented by Tor Biering-Sørensen

IBM today announced the launch of the IBM Cloud for Financial Services to offer the essential building blocks for the creation of financial services apps on the IBM Cloud.

IBM today announced the world’s first blockchain-based green asset management platform based on the open source, openly governed Hyperledger Fabric.

“History does not repeat itself, but it does instruct.” With those words Yale historian Timothy Snyder introduced readers to his new book, “On Tyranny: 20 Lessons from the 20th Century.”

Toshiba announces the results of field tests of electric buses charged with its wireless rapid rechargeable battery system

Over the next century, southern Africa will see widespread decreases in maize production.

The East China Plains (ECP) region experienced the worst haze pollution on record for January in 2013.

AMD today announced Ryzen™ 5 desktop processors will launch worldwide on April 11, 2017, offering disruptive price-to-performance for gamers and creators.

Sampling of Narrow Linewidth & High Output Power Micro ITLA for beyond-100Gbps optical digital coherent transmission

A new food web highlights which birds, fish, insects, and other animals affected by the Deepwater Horizon explosion in 2010 should receive top priority for conservation, protection, and research.

New research offers insights into how crystal dislocations — a common type of defect in materials — can affect electrical and heat transport through crystals, at a microscopic, quantum mechanical level.

In the center of a distant galaxy, almost 300 million light years from Earth, scientists have discovered a supermassive black hole that is “choking” on a sudden influx of stellar debris.

The research paper, published in The Journal of Pediatrics, says the effectiveness of internet filters is ‘dubious’ and suggests that resources would be better spent trying to develop the resilience of teenagers to such experiences.

New research clarifies how toroidal droplets—which initially take the shape of a donut—evolve into spherical droplets by collapsing into themselves or breaking up into smaller droplets.