Enlarge (credit: Getty | YinYang) Pharmaceutical companies spend around $6.5 billion a year on advertising, and even though Facebook prohibits the use of “sensitive health information” in ad targeting, about $1 billion of that ad spending ends up in the companies’ pockets. Big Pharma, it turns out, has found some creative ways to work within […]
Expand / T-Mobile ad in New York City’s Times Square on October 15, 2020. (credit: Getty Images Meanwhile, the Federal Communications Commission has completed investigating T-Mobile to get a system outage that Chairman Ajit Pai known as”unacceptable.” But rather than punishing the cell provider, the FCC is only issuing a public opinion to”remind” cellphone businesses […]
Enlarge / Top row: the hallucination and actual structure. Bottom row: the two structures superimposed. (credit: Anishchenko et. al.) Chemically, proteins are just a long string of amino acids. Their amazing properties come about because that chain can fold up into a complex, three-dimensional shape. So understanding the rules that govern this folding can not […]