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Mohamed El-Erian. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni Mohamed El-Erian is one of, if not the most, prominent economic commentators in the world. With his recent book “The Only Game in Town,” El-Erian expertly captures the conventional wisdom that permeates markets today: Central banks…

Credit: Hulton Archives/Getty Images For those of you that are experienced in the art of taking drugs, you already know that drugs rarely give you special powers or enhance any of your natural abilities. In fact, it is so rare to…

There’s a new computing champion… and unlike past years, this one doesn’t depend on any Western tech to crunch numbers. Top500 has declared that China’s Sunway TaihuLight, a 40,960-node system powered entirely by Chinese processors (the 260-core ShenWei 26010), is…

(Image: McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT) Next week, a federal advisory committee is set to review a proposal to use CRISPR—the cheap, powerful and buzzy gene-editing tool—on human patients for the first time. The Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee,…