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MakeUseOf | 2/10/2018 | Mihir Patkar
It’s February 14 and you better have planned something romantic for your partner. But just in case you didn’t, these free apps offer great date night ideas for Valentine’s Day.
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phys.org | 2/9/2018 | Staff
Researchers at the University of Bristol's Quantum Engineering Technology Labs have demonstrated a new type of silicon chip that can help building and testing quantum computers and could find their...
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phys.org | 2/9/2018 | Staff
The publisher of Britain's left-wing Daily Mirror newspaper struck a £126.7 million deal on Friday to buy a series of titles including the right-wing Daily Express in a bid to stem a decline in...
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phys.org | 2/9/2018 | Staff
Bacterial infections are among the greatest threats to human health. However, due to the increasing spread of multidrug-resistant bacteria, the current antibiotic supply appears to be insufficient,...
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phys.org | 2/9/2018 | Staff
At DESY's X-ray source PETRA III, scientists have followed the growth of tiny wires of gallium arsenide live. Their observations reveal exact details of the growth process responsible for the...
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phys.org | 2/9/2018 | Staff
Researchers at IIT-Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia fabricated an artificial device reproducing a 1:1 scale model of the blood-brain barrier (BBB), the anatomical and functional structure that...
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phys.org | 2/9/2018 | Staff
Canada unveiled plans Thursday to speed up environmental reviews of mines, pipelines and dam projects, placing the approval process under a single agency. The overhaul, which must be approved by...
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phys.org | 2/9/2018 | Staff
Finance Minister Taro Aso said the raids were being carried out on exchanges to "examine their internal governance structure" Japan said on Friday it had carried out raids on a number of...
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phys.org | 2/9/2018 | Staff
In the world's driest desert, an unassuming black box called "Espresso" is about to begin a very big mission: scouring the universe for planets like ours to find signs of life beyond Earth.
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earthsky.org | 2/10/2018 | Bruce McClure
Before dawn on February 11, 2018, look for the slender waning crescent moon to pair up with the planet Saturn. You’ll find the pair in the southeast from the Northern Hemisphere (more due east from...
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phys.org | 2/9/2018 | Staff
China's auto sales growth rebounded in January into positive territory, boosted by strong demand for SUVs, an industry group reported Friday. Sales of sedans, SUVs and minivans rose 10.
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phys.org | 2/9/2018 | Staff
Electric cars bask in the limelight at India's flagship auto show, where an ambitious plan to phase out polluting clunkers has manufacturers racing to lure millions of new drivers to their green...
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earthsky.org | 2/10/2018 | Eleanor Imster
Image via NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona. On February 8, 2018, NASA released this image, taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) spacecraft. The image shows streaks forming on slopes...
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phys.org | 2/9/2018 | Staff
Qualcomm on Thursday rejected a record $121 billion hostile bid from computer chip rival Broadcom but offered to meet with the Singapore-based firm to discuss the recently increased offer.
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phys.org | 2/10/2018 | Staff
Surveying a nearly empty cellar, Frederic Nivelle of Bordeaux's prestigious Chateau Climens, reflects on what might have been an outstanding year for the sweet white Sauternes wine.
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realclimatescience.com | 2/10/2018 | StaffFebruary 10 temperatures have generally been declining in the US over the past century, and the frequency of warm February 10 days has declined. The larger pattern is a 50 year cycle which shows...
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phys.org | 2/10/2018 | Staff
Billionaire Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma foresees an Olympics that is better for fans and athletes and is more economical—and hopes Beijing 2022 will be the pinnacle of that vision.
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3ders.org | 2/10/2018 | Staff
One of the biggest news stories of the week was SpaceX’s launch of its Falcon Heavy rocket, which blasted off on Tuesday, February 6. The aerospace firm, founded and run by business magnate Elon...
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phys.org | 2/10/2018 | Staff
Mexico hopes fish farming can help weaken the illegal market for the totoaba fish and help save the critically endangered vaquita porpoise, of which less than 30 survive.
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Space.com | 2/10/2018 | Staff
LITTLETON, Colo. – NASA's next Mars lander is in the final phases of preparation before heading to California's Vandenberg Air Force Base, where it will become the first interplanetary mission ever...
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3ders.org | 2/10/2018 | Staff
This week in 3D printing was marked by exciting new products, surprising revelations, some sad news, and more. Check out some of our top stories from the past week: Printing giant HP introduced a...
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phys.org | 2/9/2018 | Staff
One of Brazil's top newspapers, the Folha de S. Paulo, announced Thursday it would stop publishing on its Facebook page after the social network announced it would give personal content more...
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Space.com | 2/10/2018 | Staff
NASA's Juno probe completed its 10th science flyby of Jupiter Wednesday (Feb. 7) — its 11th total flyby since its arrival at the Jovian giant in July 2016. During this most recent flyby, the probe...
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phys.org | 2/9/2018 | Staff
Tension between the needs of cattle and fish is a source decades of controversy in northeast Oregon's Blue Mountains. Endangered bull trout, steelhead trout, Chinook salmon, and sockeye salmon...
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Space.com | 2/10/2018 | Staff
A Russian Soyuz rocket will launch a cargo shipment to the International Space Station (ISS) in record time early Sunday morning (Feb. 11), and you can watch the event live online.
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phys.org | 2/9/2018 | Staff
NASA engineer Manuel Vega can see one of the Olympic ski jump towers from the rooftop of the South Korean weather office where he is stationed. Vega is not watching skiers take flight, preparing for...
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Live Science | 2/10/2018 | Staff
The history-making launch of the Falcon Heavy rocket, and its Tesla Roadster payload, on Tuesday (Feb. 6) drew crowds of reporters and enthusiasts, including 65-year-old Terry Scott Hilliard, who...
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phys.org | 2/7/2018 | Staff
An extremely deep multi-band optical image from the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT, Hawaii. USA) casts a new light on the formation process of the famous group of 5 colliding galaxies.
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Climate Depot | 2/10/2018 | Marc Morano
It seems that other climate skeptics haven’t dedicated much attention to this particular recent mania but I was intrigued and disgusted, so here is my reaction. You need about 1,000 tons of the...
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Live Science | 2/10/2018 | StaffA giant undersea caldera near Japan hosts a lava dome made from 8 trillion gallons of molten rock. The dome, which is 6.2 miles (10 kilometers) wide and 1,968 feet (600 meters) tall, is solid rock...
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phys.org | 2/10/2018 | Staff
Indonesian authorities lowered the alert status of Bali's Mount Agung volcano from the highest level on Saturday following a significant decrease in activity and said thousands of people who have...
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Climate Depot | 2/10/2018 | Marc MoranoGlobal Greening: Indeed, satellite data suggests the world has mostly “greened” in the past few decades, which scientists partly attribute to extra carbon dioxide emissions put into the atmosphere...
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TechCrunch | 2/10/2018 | Joanna Glasner
This data crunch was an update (see our methodology section below) to a prior overview of the often bizarre naming trends that startups follow. At that time, we found top trends included putting AI...
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phys.org | 2/7/2018 | Staff
Two small asteroids recently discovered by astronomers at the NASA-funded Catalina Sky Survey (CSS) near Tucson, Arizona, are safely passing by Earth within one lunar distance this week.
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TechCrunch | 2/10/2018 | Megan Rose Dickey
elf-driving and electric flying cars are coming. What this means for our cities in the future is unclear, so I chatted with Uber Head of Policy of Autonomous Vehicles and Urban Aviation Justin...
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phys.org | 2/7/2018 | Staff
The discovery of the Cas9 protein has simplified gene editing, and may even make it possible to eliminate many hereditary diseases in the near future. Using Cas9, researchers have the ability to cut...
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phys.org | 2/7/2018 | Staff
The sun might emit less radiation by mid-century, giving planet Earth a chance to warm a bit more slowly but not halt the trend of human-induced climate change. The cooldown would be the result of...
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TechCrunch | 2/10/2018 | Jason Rowley
Jason Rowley is a venture capital and technology reporter for Crunchbase News. More posts by this contributor: Did - Tide - VC - Start - Q4 Did the tide of global VC start to turn in Q4 2017? In the...
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phys.org | 2/7/2018 | Staff
At DESY's X-ray source PETRA III, scientists have investigated an intriguing form of self-assembly in liquid crystals: When the liquid crystals are filled into cylindrical nanopores and heated,...
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TechCrunch | 2/10/2018 | Danny Crichton
Human resources has to be one of the greatest bait-and-switch professions one can join today. HR departments position themselves with a forward-facing fluffy image, whether improving the...
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phys.org | 2/7/2018 | Staff
A new study published in Nature Communications will help to predict antibiotic resistance evolution and thus guide future drug development. The genes that equip bacteria with resistance to...
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TechCrunch | 2/10/2018 | Billy Gallagher
Billy Gallagher is a former TechCrunch staffer whose first book "HOW TO TURN DOWN A BILLION DOLLARS: The Snapchat Story by Billy Gallagher" is on sale now. Gallagher previously worked as an analyst...
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phys.org | 2/7/2018 | Staff
Russian cyberspies pursuing the secrets of military drones and other sensitive U.S. defense technology tricked key contract workers into exposing their email to theft, an Associated Press...
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TechCrunch | 2/10/2018 | Brian Heater
Robots are great at doing what they’re told. But sometimes inputting that information into a system is a far more complex process than the task we’re asking them to execute.
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phys.org | 2/7/2018 | Staff
From cars to rockets, Elon Musk dreams big. On Tuesday, the South African-born entrepreneur combined both of those passions, blasting one of his Tesla electric cars into space aboard his own rocket.
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phys.org | 2/6/2018 | Staff
A deadly feline disease is now spreading between cats after hiding in nature for nearly 40 years. Multiple cases of feline parvovirus, also known as cat plague, or panleukopenia, have been reported...
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phys.org | 2/6/2018 | Staff
A team of researchers have discovered that studying small groups of wildlife and how they share scarce resources in particular environments can be critical to preventing wide-spread species loss.
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phys.org | 2/6/2018 | Staff
Is it a computer program or a living being? At TU Wien (Vienna), the boundaries have become blurred. The neural system of a nematode was translated into computer code – and then the virtual worm was...
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phys.org | 2/6/2018 | Staff
A quick and cost-effective approach to monitoring the health of elephant populations could help measure the impact of poaching on the animals, according to a new study involving the University of...
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3ders.org | 2/9/2018 | Staff
DNV GL, the international quality assurance and risk management firm, has announced it will be launching a Global Additive Manufacturing Centre of Excellence in Singapore.
Christabel Pankhurst: Suffragette and End-Times Seer In 1918 suffragette Christabel Pankhurst won the right to vote in...
Abandon Hope Or Not One of the greatest poets who ever lived puts us at the gate of Hell and this brutal set of truths is...
Headline News Around the World Michael J. Matt has been an editor of The Remnant since 1990. Since 1994, he has been the...
In Ohio, Catholic decline means Youngstown diocese stretched thin Youngstown, Ohio, Mar 26, 2019 / 06:01 pm (CNA).- The Diocese...
Scottish bishops warn against characterizing religious beliefs as 'hate speech' Edinburgh, Scotland, Mar 26, 2019 / 07:01 pm...
Researchers quicken drug discovery method via zombie-like cells Researchers are using zombie-like cells that behave normally on...
Technology reveals previously undetectable protein signaling activity in diabetes, cancer Proteins are the workhorses of the...
Ambient plant illumination could light the way for greener buildings Buildings of the future may be lit by collections of...
Equity transcribed: Why Om Malik thinks ‘the VC subsidized life is over’ It’s time for another transcribed edition of Equity.
Computing faster with quasi-particles Majorana particles are very peculiar members of the family of elementary particles.
India’s most popular services are becoming super apps Truecaller, an app that helps users screen strangers and robocallers,...
Supergirl Finale Recap: Lex's Last Attack Leads to a Shocking Reveal — Plus, Meet Season 5's Big Bad! Charmed Stars Set Up...
Ariana Grande has 'the coolest day' of her life donning spacesuit in tour of NASA Houston center Ariana Grande documented...
Tati Westbrook Says She Wants to Put James Charles Feud "To a Rest" Tati Westbrook wants to close the chapter in her life...
‘Westworld’ Season 3 First Trailer: Aaron Paul Takes Control in Radically New Footage — Watch In case you thought “Game of...
How to Stream the Game of Thrones Finale Maybe you're super excited for the Game of Thrones series finale. Maybe you're not...
Scarlett Johansson and Colin Jost Are Engaged After 2 Years of Dating Scarlett Johansson and Colin Jost are engaged! The...
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