Statin therapy produces significant reductions in major vascular events irrespective of age, including in people older than 75 years, according to a new study published in The Lancet. Statins produce significant reductions in major vascular events, but there is less direct evidence of benefit among patients older than 75 years …

A new study published in the journal Food Webs provides additional evidence that wildlife is abundant in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, a large area of contamination around the Chernobyl nuclear plant. Ten mammalian and five bird species were documented scavenging fish carcasses in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone including Eurasian otters …

  China is in the middle of a multi-part mission to explore the moon with unmanned landers, the most recent of which is Chang’e-4. This intrepid little probe made history when it became the first object to make a soft landing on the far side of the moon. Now, it’s …

  Google+ has been limping along for the last several years as spambots ran rampant and Google showed little interest in making improvements to the social network. In 2017, Google finally threw in the towel. After discovering a security flaw in G+, it decided to shut down the consumer side …

  When the Raspberry Pi was first released, its creators hoped to sell a thousand units. Instead, they created one of the most popular and enduring low-cost computers to ever come to market, with sales of 19 million units as of March 2018. Since the $35 computer debuted, it’s been …

  Intel has announced that it will discontinue the Itanium series of CPUs in 2021. The Itanium 9700 family, codenamed Kittson, is the last generation of Itanium to ship, with quad-core and eight-core models at clocks ranging from 1.73GHz to 2.66GHz and a TDP of 170W. Kittson was originally supposed …

  According to the World Health Organization, over 400 million people worldwide have disabling hearing loss. Many of the rest of us have at least limited hearing impairment. So it makes sense that with phones being at the center of our electronic life, phone makers would innovate in providing solutions …

A new survey from BrightLocal offers a window into the state of agencies doing local SEO. The survey polled roughly 650 digital agencies, SEO freelancers and in-house marketers from small businesses and enterprises. The results overall describe a market segment that faces challenges but is upbeat — a reflection of …

While Google is again this year showing ads in their results for queries related to Super Bowl ads, Bing has apparently decided not to show any paid results for those types of queries. The Bing decision to not show search ads for queries like “super bowl ads” and “super bowl …

  Nest launched its home security system called Nest Secure in late 2017. Since then, it’s made the sort of minor updates you’d expect for a modern smart home device. Secure learned how to keep certain sensors active when you’re at home and how to respond to Google Assistant commands. …