Area 404 is a 22,000-square-foot lab with a scanning electron microscope, 60,000-PSI of waterjet cutting power, and more giant machines.
If you’re a heavy user of Facebook, Messenger, or Instagram, you’d probably never guess that on the first floor of a building at the social networking giant’s Silicon Valley campus, behind a key-card access door that grants entry only to a select few people, is a scanning electron microscope.
The quintessential American sportswear brand is back for its fifth Olympics. Sorry, no berets this time.
The Opening Ceremony of the Olympics is one of the great pageants of our time. Tomorrow night, athletes from every country will take the world stage in outfits that represent their homeland as nearly 1 billion people tune in. And this year, much like every summer and winter Olympics since 2008, Team USA will march out in clothes designed by Ralph Lauren.
Particles that might hold markers for cancer pass through a silicon obstacle course that sorts them by size.
Cancer starts small—at the nanometer scale, as DNA, RNA, and proteins develop harmful defects. So cancer detection has been moving down in size—toward “liquid biopsies” that filter blood and other bodily fluids to detect problems in cells or pieces of cells before tumors emerge.
One key to being a good boss is figuring out what type of leader you are, then adjusting your strengths and weaknesses to help the team.
People don’t quit jobs; they quit bosses. So when you’re the leader, your job directly impacts employee retention. While some people are naturally good at managing others, all of us have strengths and weaknesses that can affect our relationships with members of the team.
It costs less than $10,000. It’s made entirely in America. It could change how we move around. But right now, sadly, it doesn’t do much at all to make you want to take it for a spin.
Elio Motors has been working on its three-wheeled car-cum-motorcycle (“autocycle”) since 2009. It plans finally to go into production in 2017 and it’s received 56,000 reservations from people eager to buy it. The company says the road-worthy vehicle will cost just $6,800, and have a highway-MPG of 84, putting it into a market category all its own. In every way, Elio has a good story to tell: a genuine American bootstrapping startup that’s developed a car—a whole car!—from scratch.
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