A team of scientists in Korea has identified ragweed compounds that could help neurons survive in the presence of Alzheimer’s disease peptides. The common ragweed (Ambrosia artemisiifolia). Image credit: Pere Igor / CC BY-SA 3.0. Alzheimer’s disease is a neurodegenerative disorder that features declines of judgment, cognition, memory, and behavior. …

In many group-living mammals, mothers may increase the reproductive success of their adult daughters. However, whether such maternal effects exist for adult sons is largely unknown. A new study, published in the journal Current Biology, shows that adult bonobo males have higher paternity success when their mother is living in …

  Google today unveiled a new look for its mobile search results, which gives sites a way to showcase their own branding instead of looking like every other blue link. Before, the search results were blue and the source — a publisher’s site, for example — would appear below in …

  The dwarf planet Haumea orbits the sun in the deep, dark reaches of the outer solar system. Astronomers spotted this object in 2004, and it helped usher in the formal definition a “dwarf planet,” resulting in the demotion of Pluto. The longer astronomers observe Haumea, the more interesting it …

  When astronomers peer up at the heavens, they aren’t just looking for objects we already know to exist. They also hunt for evidence of physical phenomena we think should exist but haven’t found yet. When you add up the various factors in play — the vastness of space, the …

  We had no idea what Pluto looked like until 2015 when the New Horizons spacecraft completed its flyby. It’s safe at this point to say that the former planet is a much more complex object than anyone dared expect. It has clouds, fields of nitrogen ice, and (surprisingly) a …

  Mobile video editing tools have struggled to keep up with the exploding demand from a wide variety of users — ranging from professional video bloggers to casual users sharing their experiences. There are plenty of simple, consumer-oriented tools, and some cool special-purpose tools like DJI’s Mimo, but most of …

  Things just keep getting worse for Huawei. After landing on the US Commerce Department’s “Entity List” last week, multiple US companies have signaled they would sever business ties. It may even lose access to the good parts of Android. Huawei, the second-largest maker of smartphones and a huge presence …

Google now renders and indexes client-side AJAX-style JavaScript POST requests. This is good news for those who use modern JavaScript to query online resource APIs and produce dynamic content in pages because such dynamic content is now finally indexed along with the rest of the static content on a page. …

For Cars.com, the popular automotive marketplace, the March 2019 core update was good: the company has seen a 49% increase in search visibility since. SEO Director David Greene said he believes a lot of the success has to do with their SEO strategy around content and site performance updates, but there was …