Former All-Star guard Joe Johnson, who spent last season in the BIG3 league, is headed back to the NBA. Johnson last played in the NBA during the 2017-18 season, splitting that campaign between the Utah Jazz and Houston Rockets. A six-time All-Star, Johnson was one of the NBAs top scorers …

The electric eel (Electrophorus electricus) has long been assumed to be one species, but an international team of scientists has now discovered there are actually three separate ones. Electric eel (Electrophorus electricus) at the New England Aquarium, Boston. Image credit: Steven G. Johnson / CC BY-SA 3.0. The electric eel …

An incomplete crocodile skull found near the city of Altdorf in Bavaria, southern Germany, in the 1770s has been recognized as Mystriosaurus laurillardi, which lived in tropical waters during the Jurassic period. Life reconstruction of Mystriosaurus laurillardi. Image credit: Julia Beier. “Mystriosaurus laurillardi is one of the first marine crocodile …

  In 2017, an interstellar object named ‘Oumuamua shot through our own solar system. It was the first time we’d ever detected an interstellar object passing through the solar system, and its unusual shape recalled the artificial vessel in Arthur C. Clarke’s Rendezvous with Rama science fiction novel. Now, an …

  Last week, Intel published a PCN (Public Change Notice) on its QDMS website declaring that certain Apollo Lake processors had flaws and would be discontinued. The initial notification the company published was straightforward: An issue had been identified with the Low Pin Count (LPC) Real Time Clock (RTC) SD …

Yelp has been busy lately. The company is creating new products for business owners, most of them subscription-based, and new features for consumers. Most recently Yelp introduced personalization and said it was “the beginning of major product changes the company is undertaking to significantly evolve and improve the consumer experience.” …

Google’s news Tuesday that it is treating the nofollow attribute as a “hint” for ranking rather than a directive to ignore a link, and the introduction of rel="sponsored" and rel="ugc" raised reactions and questions from SEOs about next steps and the impact of the change to a nearly 15-year-old link …

An analysis of the skull biomechanics of Simosthenurus occidentalis, a species of giant short-faced kangaroo that persisted until about 42,000 years ago, indicates that the extinct animal had a capacity for high-performance crushing of foods, suggesting feeding behaviors more similar to the modern-day giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) than modern-day kangaroos. …

Human languages are comprised of meaningful words, which themselves are built from different combinations of meaningless sounds, or building blocks. A new study shows that a pair of functionally distinct vocalizations (calls) of the chestnut-crowned babbler (Pomatostomus ruficeps), a highly cooperative bird of the Australian arid zone, is composed of …

Small methane-filled lakes on the surface of Titan were likely formed by explosive, pressurized nitrogen just under the hazy moon’s surface, according to a new analysis of radar data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. This artist’s concept of a lake at the north pole of Titan illustrates raised rims and rampartlike …