[The New York Times]
As costs fall, companies push to raise internet price.

[Penn Medicine]
Using design and engineering principles learned from nature, a team of biochemists from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have built—from scratch—a completely new type of protein.

[Technology Review]
New research suggests that the layer of insulation coating neural wiring in the brain plays a critical role in determining intelligence. In addition, the quality of this insulation appears to be largely genetically determined, providing further support for the idea that IQ is partly inherited.

[Wired]
For the first time, a robotic system has made a novel scientific discovery with virtually no human intellectual input. Scientists designed "Adam" to carry out the entire scientific process on its own: formulating hypotheses, designing and running experiments, analyzing data, and deciding which experiments to run next.