A team of scientists from the University of Oregon and Texas AM University has sequenced and explored the genome of the gulf pipefish (Syngnathus scovelli), a fish species abundant in seagrass beds of the Gulf of Mexico. The team published its results online Dec. 20 in the journal Genome Biology. …

Mike Geller was a big soccer goal scorer in his playing days for New Paltz High School, and that type of attitude never goes away. When Geller was working as an assistant coach at Fallsburg in 2015, he set his sights on player Kelvin Nunez in hopes of generating more …

Good news: Pancakes are no longer carbohydrate-laden belly bombs — they’re getting a healthy makeover with high-protein ingredients. Whether it’s Greek yogurt, cottage cheese, almond flour, or protein powder, switching up the basic ingredients can give this breakfast favorite a much healthier nutritional profile. The protein pancake recipes below contain …

There’s a farm outside of Venice, Italy, that cultivates tech talent the way that other farms grow crops. Called the H-Farm, the compound nestled in the Venetian countryside will open Italy’s most advanced technology education campus, providing all levels of education — from primary school to master’s degrees — to students …

Today’s Google Doodle is the second in its series of Holiday 2016 series. For Christmas Eve, the Google letters are making hearts, stars, smiling faces and hand-prints behind fogged up windows. From the Google Doodle Blog: Happy holidays! This is the perfect time of year to cozy up to the …

Where’s Santa Claus? When will Father Christmas arrive? Millions of children around the world are asking these and similar questions on Christmas Eve. To help, two there are two great services that stand ready: NORAD Tracks Santa and Google Santa Tracker. As usual, Search Engine Land stands ready with its own tradition, …

Just a few days after we were led to believe a backup catcher was out of the team’s price range, the Tigers opened their checkbook for a marginal, yet necessary upgrade. We shouldn’t expect another Justin Upton-like contract in January, but adding Avila signals that the Tigers might be willing …

Researchers from the Institute of Planetary Research at the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, or DLR) have produced a dramatic 3D animation that simulates a flight over Occator, one of the largest craters on the dwarf planet Ceres. Occator crater is a real eye-catcher: with a …

In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have and more. Google Gnomes: Source: Instagram Google office with socks on the wall: …

Today’s Google doodle is the the first of Google’s holiday 2016 doodle series. Designed by doodler Gerben Steenks, the animated image turns the Google letters into a crew of carolers. From the Google Doodle Blog: Dating back thousands of years, the original carols were songs specific to certain regions, and …