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How Nasdaq’s SEC approval could spur board diversity

Hundreds of companies could soon begin to diversify their boards. Read More

More than half the money she’s raised for her startup is from Black investors—and that’s by design

Good morning, Broadsheet readers! Elaine Chao and Betsy DeVos resign, Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo is Biden’s pick for commerce secretary, and we learn about a food startup founder’s fundraising strategy. Have a restful weekend. – Eating away at the funding gap. Earlier this week, we highlighted a story from Business Insider that included a […]

Physicists discover that clouds of ultracold atoms can form “quantum tornadoes”

Enlarge / (l-r) A quantum gas appears first as an elongated rod. As it rotates, it becomes helical, then it breaks up into blobs, each a swirling mass. Between the blobs tiny vortices appear in a regularly repeating series. (credit: MIT/Nature) Physicists at MIT have succeeded in getting “quantum tornadoes” to form in clouds of […]