For anyone wondering how to integrate faux fur into their usual interior design scheme, this luxurious fabric can easily transform your humble home into a gorgeous haven. With the temperatures dropping and the winds picking up, there’s nothing quite like fluffy furs to keep you warm and cozy. Try drawing …

Want to know what it takes to have a successful retirement plan?  Using data from survey responses and retirement profiles, NewRetirement has found a few interesting traits shared by people who use the Retirement Planning Calculator to create a successful plan. Here are 7 retirement planning secrets from NewRetirement users …

Unlike Android handset manufacturers, which sometimes deploy different SoCs in identically named products depending on the market, Apple has historically stuck with a unified iPhone design. In 2016, the company started using two different modems, one from Qualcomm, one from Intel. Apple has continued this practice with the iPhone X, …

It’s been 20 years since IBM first introduced copper interconnects in CMOS processing, sparking a minor revolution in the process. Within a handful of years, both Intel and AMD had made the jump as well, paving the way for reduced interconnect power consumption and improved performance when compared with the …

The Mars 2020 rover project is in full swing at NASA, and the agency has chosen to base the new rover on the phenomenally successful Curiosity design. That means the rover needs to slow down in the Martian atmosphere before engaging its rocket-based landing system. NASA has just completed the …

Bike-sharing, the year’s hottest startup trend in China and beyond, looks like it is about to see the biggest casualty of its cut-throat competition. Bluegogo, which had raised $90 million from investors and operates around 700,000 bikes across China, seems headed for the deadpool after Technode, our Chinese partner site, …

The trackway of a plant-eating sauropod dinosaur has been excavated in the Jura Mountains, France. This 508-foot (155 m) line of footsteps is the longest known trackway of a sauropod. The 110-step trackway represents a new ichnospecies, Brontopodus plagnensis, and extends over 508 feet — a world record for sauropods, …

A new study by researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, has found that moderate-to-vigorous physical activity may lower the risk of developing glaucoma by up to 73%. Individuals who are physically active appear to have a 73% lower risk of developing glaucoma. Image credit: Steve Buissinne. Glaucoma is …

An international team of researchers has found that in both mice and humans, a high-salt diet shrinks the population of a type of gut bacteria called Lactobacillus; as a result, Th-17 immune cells grow in number; these immune cells have been linked with high blood pressure, although the exact mechanism …

An international team of researchers led by the University of California, Davis, has sequenced the genome of the Tausch’s goatgrass (Aegilops tauschii), one of the three progenitors of bread wheat. The Tausch’s goatgrass (Aegilops tauschii), also known as the rough-spike hard grass, is a self-pollinating goatgrass species in the Triticeae …