He has a five-year, $105 million contract with $65 million in guarantees where $48 million was fully guaranteed at signing. Chiefs defensive end Frank Clark signed a five-year, $104 million contract with $62.305 million in guarantees in connection with his trade from the Seahawks shortly before the NFL draft was …

A large international team of researchers has sequenced the genome of the cowpea (Vigna unguiculata), a major crop for worldwide food and nutritional security, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. African farmers domesticated the cowpea (Vigna unguiculata) from its wild form, in a process of unconscious selection over many centuries. Domesticated cowpea …

  Some people change the world with technology. Some people use technology to change the world. And some people find ways to mine Bitcoin on really, really, really old computers. Ancient Computer Restorer and obvious Bitcoin programming enthusiast Ken Shirriff has turned this into something of a habit, having previously …

  A new version of Android Q is rolling out today, moving us one step closer to a final release. This fifth beta is also the first “release candidate” build of Android Q. Developers can test their apps against Beta 5 and feel confident they’ll work the same way on …

De Shone Kizer sees beyond Packers backup role Although his first two years in the NFL may suggest a career already down for the count, Green Bay Packers quarterback De Shone Kizer wants to make it clear that no one should count him out. Staying in this league is a …

According to new research, spores of the fungus Aspergillus niger are able to withstand higher doses of radiation than previously thought, which can have implications in future planetary protection policies. This scanning electron microscopic (SEM) image depicts a close up of Aspergillus sp. fungal fruiting body. This reproductive structure is …

A team of physicists at the Yokohama National University, Japan, has successfully demonstrated quantum teleportation — the remote exchange of quantum states — in a diamond. The lattice structure of diamond contains a nitrogen-vacancy center with surrounding carbon nuclear spins; the carbon isotope 13C (green) is first entangled with an …

As he gazed out onto the field following the ninth inning on Thursday night, the look on Aroldis Chapmans face represented a mixture of defeat, frustration, anger and remorse. His teammates didnt give him a chance to brood for long, stringing together a five-run 10th inning that was punctuated by …

In a study done in mice, a team of researchers found that short-term bursts of exercise — the human equivalent of a weekly game of pickup basketball, or 4,000 steps — promoted an increase in synapses in the hippocampus and prime the brain for learning. The findings were published in …

In a review paper published this week in the journal Trends in Plant Science, University of California, Santa Cruz’s Professor Lincoln Taiz and colleagues argue against the suggestion from ‘plant neurobiologists’ that plants possess consciousness. According to Taiz et al, plants don’t think, they grow. Image credit: Johannes Plenio. The …