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The Rocket IPO: What Public Markets Do to a Science Project
The most consequential engineering company of the century went public last week in the largest IPO ever recorded — and promptly turned into a meme stock with a launch schedule. A dispatch on...
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The Molecule Machines: AI-Designed Drugs Reach Their First Real Exam
For years, "AI will design new medicines" has been the tech industry's favorite promise. This year the promise finally enters the only room that can grade it: human clinical trials. A field...
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Schrödinger's Circuit: A Nobel for Making the Quantum World Visible
This year's physics Nobel went to three researchers who caught an electrical circuit — a thing you could hold — behaving by the rules of the quantum world. It took forty years for that...