The alien glare of bioluminescent bacteria bathes David Ishee’s face in green as he holds a petri dish over an LED light. Around him, the thick Mississippi gloom swallows the plywood walls of the shed where Ishee spends nights and weekends trying to cut and paste a jellyfish gene into the sperm of one of…

Arctic sea ice acts as a massive parasol for the planet, its white surface reflecting the sun’s rays back into space and keeping the air and ocean cool across the top of the globe. As the atmosphere warms, however, that ice has shrunk to historically low levels, according to satellite data. What if you could…

The 14-hour, mid-October Qantas flight from Sydney to Los Angeles probably went as most do: peanuts, in-flight viewings of the latest Spider-Man, a restless toddler, some overtippling business travelers. Four days later, though, workers at a facility three hours east of Seattle were, in the words of AeroTec President Lee Human, working to have the…

Looking for good news about the college admissions process these days? You won't find much of it. Not only has the cost of attending college doubled on average since the 1980s, but also it's gotten considerably harder to get in. The majority of colleges in America have witnessed a plummeting acceptance rate as the number…

WeWork co-founder Adam Neumann didn’t plan for his family’s control of WeWork to end at his death but he expected it be controlled by future generations of Neumanns, too, says…

Despite early-stage virtual reality market and augmented reality market valuations softening in a transitional period, total global AR/VR startup valuations are now at $45 billion globally — include non-pure play…

Tilting Point announced yesterday that it has acquired Gondola, a company that aims to increase game monetization by optimizing in-game offers and video ads. Tilting Point CEO Kevin Segalla described…

As fintech investments soar to new heights, investors are looking at the bottom and top levels of the services stack to find the next billion-dollar startups. That’s the word from…

Alphabet -owned drone delivery spin-out Wing is starting to service U.S. customers, after becoming the first drone delivery company to get the federal go-ahead to do so earlier this year.…

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