A research team at Okayama University in Japan has theoretically predicted a new class of ice phases, called aeroices, likely the most stable solid phases of water near the absolute zero temperature under negative pressure. Zeolitic ice (left) and aeroice (right) are illustrated: their structure can be regarded as combinations …

Genetic variants linked to Alzheimer’s disease and heavy smoking are less frequent in people with longer lifespans, suggesting that natural selection is weeding out these unfavorable variants in some populations, according to an analysis of the genomes of 210,000 people in the U.S. and UK. Mostafavi et al found a …

According to ESPN NBA Insider Adrian Wojnarowski, Houston businessman Tilman Fertitta has agreed to pay Rockets owner Les Alexander a record $2.2 billion for the franchise. However, if the Rockets are worth that much, everyone with a share of the league including Charlotte Hornets majority owner Michael Jordan must be …

Google has announced they are now fully launching the ability for businesses to quickly edit their Google My Business local listing directly in the Google search results. We saw Google testing this feature back in July 2017, and now it is officially rolling out. Google said all you need to …

Most of the random questions you ask Alexa devices will be met with “Hmm, I don’t know that” or “Sorry, I’m not sure.” By comparison, Google Home, with its search index access, typically does a better job on general knowledge and information queries. To better compete with Google over time, …

As more site owners have adopted AMP for speeding up mobile pages, measurement has lagged. That’s quickly changing. A visitor who went to an AMP-enabled page and a non-AMP page of a site was being counted as two separate people in Google Analytics. In May, Google fixed the double-counting issue …

  Over the past few years, the rate of hard drive density improvements has dropped significantly. While Seagate and Western Digital have both pushed ahead with larger hard drives (often thanks to more platters and the use of helium), the actual rate of areal density increase has slowed these last …

  For the past 11 years, the Tor Project has focused on offering a secure browser that prevents websites or censors from determining what content you browse or how you use the internet. The system has never been perfect (no form of computer security is), but it’s still a critical …

According to new research from the University of Zürich, the cave bear (Ursus spelaeus) — one of the biggest bear species in history — had an unusually small brain relative to its body size. Reconstruction of the cave bear (Ursus spelaeus). Image credit: Sergio de la Larosa / CC BY-SA …

Olfaction (sense of smell) is a key factor in long-distance oceanic navigation in birds, according to a new University of Oxford-led study. Cory’s shearwaters from the Crossley ID Guide Britain and Ireland. Image credit: Richard Crossley / CC BY-SA 3.0. “Navigation over the ocean is probably the extreme challenge for …