According to new research, published in the published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops aduncus) living in Shark Bay, a World Heritage Site in the Gascoyne region of Western Australia, form close friendships with other dolphins that have a common interest. An Indo-Pacific bottlenose …

Paleontologists have unearthed fossils of a giant trilobite species that inhabited Australian waters approximately 500 million years ago (Cambrian period). An artist’s impression of Redlichia rex on the Cambrian seafloor. Image credit: Katrina Kenny. Trilobites are a group of extinct marine arthropods that resemble modern-day horseshoe crabs and are related …

  Popular short-form video app TikTok has been slowly ramping up its advertising strategy this year as it increases its focus on monetization. However, the company still generates a smaller portion of its revenue from in-app purchases — and that number hit a high of $9 million in May, according …

  NASA has been talking about going back to the moon for a long time, but plans have been accelerated in the last few years. Under the current administration, NASA has been told to push up its timeline and get a crewed mission to the moon by 2024 instead of …

  Once upon a time (2018), Intel and Apple were the best of friends contractually obligated to say nice things about each other from public stages as part of a deal in which Apple would use Intel’s 5G modem in its future products and Intel would have a major customer …

  Up until now, our E3 coverage has focused on the two major announcements AMD made around its upcoming CPU and GPU products. But the company also gave a few other interesting presentations, including one on the evolution of Socket AM4. There are certain pieces of technology that get more …

Exposure to artificial light while sleeping may be a risk factor for weight gain and development of overweight or obesity, says a new study from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS). Sleeping with a TV or artificial light on may be a risk factor for gaining weight or …

Two new species of shrewlike rats have been discovered living in the montane and mossy forests of Luzon Island, Philippines. The Mingan shrew-rat (Rhynchomys mingan). Image credit: Velizar Simeonovski, Field Museum. The two newfound species belong to Rhynchomys (also known as the tweezer-beaked hopping rats), a genus of unusual Old …

Pterosaurs were winged flying reptiles that lived at the same time as dinosaurs, between 210 million and 65 million years ago. Previously, they were thought to only be able to take to the air once they had grown to almost full size, just like birds or bats. This assumption was …

  Scientists have observed many distant objects with instruments like Hubble and the upcoming James Webb Space Telescope, but everything we’ve seen represents all those stars, nebulae, and galaxies are just the tip of an unfathomable iceberg. Only about 15 percent of the universe is made up of the matter …