The Googlebot Race is an unusual tournament watched daily with engagement by over 1.8 billion websites. The tournament consists of many competitions commonly referred to as “ranking factors.” Every year, somebody tries to describe as many of them as possible, but nobody really knows what they are all about and …

Metallic asteroids are the cooled cores of disrupted planetesimals. They originated early in the history of our Solar System when planets were beginning to form. University of California Santa Cruz planetary researchers Jacob Abrahams and Professor Francis Nimmo think that as the metal cooled and solidified, volcanoes spewing liquid iron …

From the ground, the dance of the northern lights, or aurora borealis, can look peaceful. But those shimmering sheets of colored lights are the product of violent collisions between Earth’s atmosphere and particles from the Sun. Understanding the contribution that aurora make to the total amount of energy that enters …

A multinational team of researchers has successfully sequenced and analyzed the genome of durum wheat (Triticum turgidum ssp. durum), a cereal grain mainly used for pasta production. Durum wheat (Triticum turgidum ssp. durum). Image credit: Christine Dautin. Durum wheat was established as a prominent crop roughly 1,500 to 2,000 years …

Vitamin D — which exists in two forms: D2 (ergocalciferol) and D3 (cholecalciferol) — helps regulate the amount of calcium and phosphate in the body. Vitamin D toxicity is rare, but patients and clinicians must be aware of the risks of vitamin D use to limit complications related to hypercalcemia, …

An international team of researchers from Australia and the United Kingdom has discovered a new species of pig-footed bandicoot which has been extinct for more than half a century. Chaeropus yirratji. Image credit: Peter Schouten / Western Australian Museum. The pig-footed bandicoot (Chaeropus ecaudatus) was unique, and unlike any other …

  Periodically, the European e-shop MindFactory.de releases updated sales reports on which CPUs are moving through off its shelves and how both AMD and Intel are comparing with each other. Previous reports have shown AMD to be in a strong position overall, with a commanding lead in terms of unit …

  TSMC has announced the completion of its 5nm design infrastructure, with support for a wide variety of processor development. The company has finished tool development to support both next-generation low-power SoCs and high-performance computing (HPC) applications, as well as specialized products intended for the AI market. While TSMC is …

  Microsoft announced late last year that its Edge browser was being discontinued in favor of a new Edge browser based on the Chromium open source code. We’ve seen a few glimpses of the upcoming Edge refresh, but now Microsoft is rolling out the first official builds of Chromium Edge …

  Despite having raised over $70 million and launching a unique and interesting drone, Skydio hasn’t been that well known. Until now. The company apparently showcased a “follow-me” video of a rollerblader on the boardwalk at West Thumb Geyser Basin in Yellowstone National Park. Drones are not actually illegal in every …