Alzheimer's disease is a neurodegenerative disease characterized by a progressive decline in mental functions and memory loss. Along with frontotemporal dementia and some other neurodegenerative ...

A new brain imaging test using tau “tracers,” compounds that attach to proteins and light up in brain scans, detected signs of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) earlier than the method currently used in ...

When Huawei unveiled its "Tau (τ) Scaling Law" at ISCAS 2026 in Shanghai, the announcement signalled more than another chip architecture update. It marked China's most ambitious attempt yet to ...

Macquarie's Eugene Hsiao discusses the end of Moore's Law after Huawei introduces Tau Scaling Law. He sees convergence of chipmaking paths as the race for more cutting-edge chips continue. Meanwhile, ...

Huawei is proposing a new way to keep the semiconductor industry moving forward at a time when making smaller and smaller chips is becoming increasingly difficult. At the International Circuit Systems ...

Adam Feuerstein, a senior writer and biotech columnist, is the author of Adam’s Biotech Scorecard, a subscriber-only newsletter about the crossroads of drug development, business, Wall Street, and ...

A phase 2 trial of Biogen and Ionis Pharmaceuticals’ tau-targeting candidate missed its primary endpoint. But while the Alzheimer’s disease trial failed to yield the hoped-for dose-response data, ...

This article is from Proof Positive, our friendly newsletter that explores the joys and peculiarities of math. Sign up today for a weekly math essay and puzzle in your email inbox. “I know it will be ...

"I know it will be called blasphemy by some, but I believe that π is wrong." With this bold opening statement in a 2001 Mathematical Intelligencer article, mathematician Robert Palais launched a ...

The National Security Agency is said to be using Mythos Preview, Anthropic’s recently announced model that it withheld from public release, Axios reports. The news comes weeks after the NSA’s parent ...

When a Ukrainian agricultural tycoon founded a volunteer unit of 30 people in the early days of Russia’s invasion, he had no certainty he would live to see what came next — but he did, and so did the ...

In Alzheimer’s disease, two key proteins, extracellular amyloid-beta plaques and an intercellular protein called tau, disrupt communication between the brain’s cells and lead to cell damage and death.