Propionates, salts of a short-chain fatty acid called propionic acid, are widely used in baked goods, animal feeds and artificial flavorings. Although generally recognized as safe by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the metabolic effects of propionate consumption in humans were unclear until now. According to new research that …

Professor Avi Loeb of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and colleagues have proposed a new test for inflation, the theory that our Universe dramatically expanded in size in a fleeting fraction of a second right after the Big Bang. The team’s paper was published in the journal Physical Review Letters. …

  Not every company can be a success, but most of them don’t suck up $200 million of venture capital before folding like Anki just did. According to CEO Boris Sofman the company’s 200 staff will be out of work on Wednesday this week, but the company has enough left …

  Saturn has a lot of moons, but Titan is of particular interest to scientists for numerous reasons. It has a thick atmosphere, bodies of liquid on the surface, and weather patterns. Scientists from the University of Arizona studying the atmospheric processes on Titan report they happened upon a previously …

  Samsung has unveiled a line of concept televisions, including one intended for mobile-friendly content and Millennial buyers. According to the company’s PR, the new model — referred to in an image as “The Sero” and as “The Vertical” in the company’s translated press release — is designed to view …

  Motherboard manufacturers have begun to release UEFI updates for AMD’s upcoming third-generation Ryzen microprocessors and users have noticed that the updates are only coming to certain motherboards. Companies like Asus have released a long list of X470, B450, X370, and B350 motherboards that will support 7nm chips — but …

  When AMD announced its third-generation Ryzen CPUs, it also declared that it would use a new method to connect its CPUs together. Instead of building standard, monolithic CPUs (or connecting two monolithic CPUs together in what’s known as a Multi-Chip Module, or MCM), AMD opted for a new type …

  Last week, we covered the leak of an Intel roadmap for both its mobile and commercial client parts. The headline event was the general lack of 10nm silicon for desktop, which didn’t appear to pop up in non-mobile systems through the end of 2021. The same group at Tweakers.net …

  Mobile World Congress this past February included the unveiling of several notable smartphones like the Nokia 9 PureView and LG G8. However, one device got an inordinate amount of attention — the Energizer Power Max P18K Pop. Hiding behind that clunky name was a phone with a gigantic 18,000 …

Google parent Alphabet today announced that Eric Schmidt would be leaving the board of directors after 18 years. The company said he would not seek reelection after his current term expires in June. He joined the board in 2001, shortly before becoming the company’s CEO. Ten years at the controls. …