An international team of scientists has found a wealth of well-preserved stony meteorites in the Atacama Desert that allowed them to reconstruct the rate of falling meteorites over the past two million years. Meteorite with thin, dark, fusion crust in the Atacama Desert, Chile. Image credit: Jérôme Gattacceca, CEREGE. “Our …

According to new research, levels of high-density lipoprotein (HDL), non-HDL and total cholesterol in U.S. youths have improved from 1999 to 2016, but only 50% of children and adolescents are in the ideal range, and 25% are in the clinically high range. Between 1999 and 2016, favorable trends were observed …

A team of physicists at the University of Basel has experimentally mapped out the shape and orientation of electrons trapped in quantum dots. An electron is trapped in a quantum dot, which is formed in a 2D gas in a semiconductor wafer. However, the electron moves within the space and, …

A multidisciplinary team of scientists has successfully isolated several yeast strains from ancient vessels excavated at archaeological sites in Israel. The researchers then brewed ‘aromatic and flavorful’ beer using the ancient yeast strains. Beer cruse from Tell es-Safi/Gath, Israel. Image credit: Yaniv Berman / Israel Antiquities Authority. “We hypothesized that …

  NASA is going back to the Moon, and this time, it intends to stay a while. That’s the news from NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, who announced the first company chosen to deliver a vital component of the space agency’s Lunar Gateway space station. Maxar Technologies will build the power …

  Intel and AMD are expanding their GPU partnership and launching new hardware that features a combination of Intel CPUs and an AMD discrete GPU. The two companies famously collaborated on Hades Canyon, a premium design that combined an AMD “Vega” GPU (not quite), with an Intel CPU connected via …

  The various types of neural networks companies have experimented with so far have all been silicon-based. CPUs, GPUs, TPUs, and FPGAs may have different performance characteristics, but they’re built from the same sorts of materials. Intel, however, is working on building AI networks using silicon photonics, defined as the …

The best retirement investments depend entirely on you and your goals. Don’t dive into anything or let anyone tell you how to invest unless they understand how much money you have and what your goals are for that money. When will you need or want it? What will you spend …

No one can argue that paid search isn’t a fantastic bottom-funnel tactic. The rest of your marketing drives interest in your products or services which then drives consumers to search engines where your SEM acts as an always-on net to capture engagement. But, if every click really is a consumer …

his time, Kyrgios filmed himself on social media at the All England Club, saying the French Open sucks before going to a scheduled hit with Andy Murray. Following his exit at Rome, Kyrgios traveled to Wimbledon, where Murray has been training as he aims to come return from a hip …