When Jonathan Swerdlin tells you he pours his blood, sweat, and tears into his work, he means it more literally than most company leaders. Swerdlin is the CEO and co-founder of Function Health, a fast ...

The lookup function in Excel can save you a lot of time and effort, but only if you actually know how to use its many forms and alterations.

Festo’s Eric Rice explains two commonly used concepts “(software-defined automation” and “function integration”) in simple ...

We need to ban some gain-of-function research on deadly viruses. We also need a better definition of what it is we're banning.

Gain-of-function research is the serial passaging of microorganisms to increase transmissibility, virulence, immunogenicity, and host tropism.

Pure functions The ideal in functional programming is what is known as pure functions. A pure function is one whose results are dependent only upon the input parameters, and whose operation ...

Gain-of-function research involves giving a pathogen a new "ability" and is controversial because if a pathogen is mutated to become more infectious or deadly and then escapes from a lab, it could ...

The legal function has not done much to help. It's not just technology and data that law is lacking—its humanizing the legal function. Here's what that means and why it matters.

Cryptographic hash functions are mathematical functions that are often used with cryptocurrency. Find out in this guide how they work and what their role is.