Photo: Twenty20 Short of eating a perfect diet, a daily multivitamin is often touted as the next best thing — if only remembering to take it was as simple as it sounds. But what if there was an easier, more effective way to get essential vitamins and nutrients into your …
Read More »Two New Species of African Mole-Rats Discovered in Tanzania
Scientists working in Tanzania have discovered and named two new species of the mole-rat genus Fukomys. The research was published in the journal PeerJ. The Hanang mole-rat (Fukomys hanangensis). Image credit: Chris Faulkes. African mole-rats of the family Bathyergidae are burrowing rodents that occur throughout sub-Saharan Africa, with much of …
Read More »DNA Study Sheds Light on Evolution of Dog Breeds
Genetic material from 161 modern breeds helped a team of researchers at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) of the National Institutes of Health assemble the most comprehensive evolutionary tree of dogs. The results are published in the journal Cell Reports. Representatives from each of the 23 clades of …
Read More »Geneticists Identify New Extreme Longevity Variants
An international team of researchers from the United States and Italy has identified new genetic variants associated with extreme survival and reduced risks for cardiovascular and Alzheimer’s diseases. Schematic of the analyses conducted to discover longevity associated variants (LAV), LAV with significant joint effect on extreme longevity (jLAV), and LAV …
Read More »PayPal launches a small biz toolset, ‘Business in a Box,’ with WooCommerce & Xero
PayPal today launched a new service, called Business in Box, aimed at bringing more U.S. small business owners to its payments platform. The service, which was developed in partnership with WooCommerce and Xero, offers merchants a suite of tools for running their online businesses, including an online storefront, accounting tools, the ability to …
Read More »Startup step-by-step: Why I’m doing another startup
The desire to create is a hard one to kill. I’ve had it all my life, from the comic books and music I made with my grade school friend Rick to the books I wrote and tried to write to the projects I built over the years. Now it’s become …
Read More »Santora to continue golf career at Carroll
The 2014 Napa High School graduate and former Santa Rosa Junior College player is committed to practicing and playing as much as he can. ” Santora, 21, said after playing a practice round Friday on the North Course at Silverado Resort and Spa. Santora, a Napa resident, signed a national …
Read More »How to optimize for voice search
dennizn / Shutterstock.com The way people search for information online is changing. Increasingly, people are using voice search on their smartphones, tablets or voice assistants (like the Amazon Echo or Google Home devices) to search for information on the internet. Siri is your best friend if you’re using an Apple …
Read More »Study: Q1 Google Display Network placements
One of the best ways to fill the early part of the online marketing funnel is to advertise on Google’s network of partner sites, the Google Display Network (GDN). Essentially, these are websites that are either showing AdSense ads or websites that show ads from DoubleClick (some of the GDN …
Read More »Google rolls out similar audiences for Search and Shopping
AmsStudio / Shutterstock.com Google announced the long-awaited rollout of similar audiences for Search on Monday. Similar audiences can be built from past site visitors — remarketing lists for search ads (RLSA). The company also officially announced the global availability of Customer Match targeting for Shopping campaigns. Google first teased the expansion …
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