Phage- and Robotics-assisted Near-continuous Evolution (PRANCE) is a technique for rapid, robust protein evolution. Robotics allows the parallelization of experiments, real-time monitoring, and feedback...

This protocol describes how to maintain the Escherichia coli Long-Term Evolution Experiment (LTEE) by performing its daily transfers and periodic freeze-downs and how to conduct competition assays to measure fitness improvements in evolved bacteria. These procedures can serve as a template for researchers starting their own microbial evolution experiments.

Here, a protocol is presented to visualize climate data as generative art.

Some researchers gain access to large amounts of data without interacting with a single research participant. Instead, they use existing records to answer various research questions. This type of research approach is known as archival research. Archival research relies on looking at past records or data sets to look for interesting patterns or relationships. For example, a researcher might access the academic records of all individuals who enrolled in college within the past ten years and...

The future value (FV) concept is fundamental in finance as it reflects the time value of money. It shows how a current sum of money will grow over time at a specific interest rate. This principle helps investors understand potential investment growth, making it easier to compare different financial options.
Understanding future value offers several benefits. For example, it helps in making informed investment decisions. By projecting investment growth, individuals can compare financial products...

Future value and compounding are essential concepts in finance and critical for understanding the growth of investments over time. The future value (FV) of an investment is the amount that the initial investment, known as the present value (PV), will grow to over a specified period, taking into account the effects of compounding interest. Compounding is the process where the value of an investment grows over time as the earnings from the investment generate additional earnings. This cycle of...