Meet Wonderchicken, Bird from Final Part of Dinosaur Era A new species of ancient bird has been identified from a nearly complete, three-dimensionally preserved skull and associated bones found in Belgium. A detailed analysis of the skull shows that it combines landfowl- and waterfowl-like features, suggesting that the bird is …

NASA Pauses Work on James Webb Space Telescope Due to COVID-19 Pandemic The chronically delayed James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is looking at another setback, but this time it’s completely out of NASA’s control. The agency has announced it will pause work on the telescope immediately due to the ongoing …

Intel Video Showcases How a 10nm CPU Gets Built I’m not normally one for just writing up a company-produced video, but a recent Intel release on how 10nm chips get built is instructive enough to merit a mention. The video below steps through the various parts of the chip-manufacturing process …

How to Use Adobe’s Creative Cloud Remotely Many enterprises and studios are familiar with using Adobe’s Team and Enterprise offerings collaboratively. But collaboration inside a corporate LAN isn’t the same thing as trying to get work done with everyone working remotely. So Adobe has put together a guide to best …

NASA Uses InSight’s Robotic Arm to Push Heat Probe Into Mars NASA’s InSight lander is part of NASA’s budget-minded Discovery program, but it’s accomplishing a surprising number of “firsts” on Mars in spite of the smaller budget. It was the first mission to take seismic readings on another planet and …

Female-led Robin Games raises $7M to combine lifestyle content with fantasy gaming As a former Jam City executive, Jill Wilson led teams behind some of the top-grossing gaming franchises, like Cookie Jam and Panda Pop. Now she’s running her own startup, Robin Games, where a team of mostly women is …

Pro Tip: How to develop a content calendar that’s relevant with creative leeway Creating an annual blog editorial calendar can seem daunting, but it doesn’t have to be. Using this three-step process, you can quickly and effectively produce enough blog topics to fill the calendar with four ideas per month, …

Nextdoor rolls out Groups and Help Map in response to coronavirus outbreak Earlier this week Nextdoor introduced two new features, both of which are intended to support members during the coronavirus crisis. The first is Nextdoor Groups; the second is Help Map, which allows people in an area to indicate …

Archaeologists Unearth 22,500-Year-Old Mammoth-Bone Structure An international team of archaeologists led by the University of Exeter has discovered a new circular mammoth-bone feature at the Paleolithic site of Kostenki 11 in Eastern Europe. The newly-discovered mammoth-bone structure at the site of Kostenki 11; the two visible scales are 5 and …

Devonian Four-Limbed Creature Reveals Insights into How Vertebrate Hand Evolved from Fish Fins A 1.57-m (5.2-foot) long specimen of Elpistostege watsoni from the Devonian period of Canada has yielded the missing evolutionary link in the fish to tetrapod transition. An artist’s reconstruction of Elpistostege watsoni fossil found in Miguasha, Canada. …