‘Science Closes In on the Common Cold’ appeared in the November 1955 issue of Popular Science. Popular Science From cities in the sky to robot butlers, futuristic visions fill the history of PopSci. In the Are we there yet? column we check in on progress towards our most ambitious promises. Read the series and explore all our 150th…
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As a young boy growing up in Michigan, Robbie Felton went on home visits with his geriatric social worker mother. Seeing low-income, elderly and disabled patients so vulnerable stuck with Felton. As a student at Brown University, he became interested in how Medicare and Medicaid integrate to take care of these patient populations — so…
A couple of years ago, Xata founder Monica Sarbu was putting together a passion project called Tupu.io, a platform she was building to help women in tech find mentors. She wanted to include a Postgres database with Elastic search in the Tupu web application, and as a side project, she wanted it to be fairly…
Google is adding its Lens image search right into its home page, letting users access the advanced image recognition tool directly from the search box. The search giant first announced Lens at I/O 2017 and has since integrated it into several of its services, including Google Photos, Chrome and more. Now, as first noted by…
Sophie Alcorn Contributor Share on Twitter Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for Entrepreneur Immigration Services.” She connects people with the businesses and opportunities that expand their lives. More posts by this contributor Dear Sophie: How…
It’s about time we all start grabbing for our jackets and hats before heading outside — but what about our pets? Just because they’re covered in fur doesn’t mean they won’t get wet and cold at the dog park as we stand by sipping hot coffee and chatting up our pals. Grab a few of…
If you Google at-home vaginal microbiome tests, you’ll be met with seemingly endless options, some from the drugstore and others with chic millennial branding. They seem to be having a moment, with more and more tests popping up on the market similar to at-home STI testing. But what are vaginal biome tests for, and do we…
The Christmas holiday film season is finally upon us and a delicious spread, from Violent Night to Your Christmas Or Mine?, is already filling up our to-watch lists. But a new Apple TV+ contender has arrived with Will Ferrell and Ryan Reynolds’ musical comedy Spirited promising a fun and festive take on the classic Charles…
Online cloud storage platform Dropbox has revealed it has suffered a data breach that saw hackers access internal code. In late September, we reported how GitHub accounts had been stolen by fake CircleCI employees – and now it seems that Dropbox also fell prey to the same attack. In a blog post, Dropbox said GitHub drew…