Groww, a startup hoping to make saving and investment opportunities more widely available to young people in India, has closed a $6.2 million Series A to grow its business. Founded in 2017, the Bengaluru-based company was part of Y Combinator in the U.S. last year and it went on to …

The newly-discovered ‘trans-cortical vessels’ connect the bone marrow with the periosteal circulation, according to new research published in the journal Nature Metabolism. Closed circulatory systems underlie the function of vertebrate organs, but in long bones their structure is unclear although they constitute the exit route for bone marrow leukocytes. To …

Freak waves are so called because of their unexpectedly large size relative to the population of smaller waves in which they occur. The 84-foot- (25.6 m) high Draupner wave, observed in the North Sea on the 1st of January 1995, was one of the first confirmed field measurements of a …

Bodypainting is widespread in African, Australian and Papua New Guinean indigenous communities. Many bodypaintings use white or bright stripes on brown skin. A new study published in the journal Royal Society Open Science shows that these stripes protect skin from insect bites. Reflection-polarization characteristics of the sunlit sticky white-striped brown …

I planned on baking my Apple Pie Blondies (idea courtesy of commenter miss Karin!) so I could cross it off my “Blondie Flavors To-Bake List” but completely forgot to buy the apples (doh).  I was at home with barely any ingredients on hand, and then I remembered I had saved a …

  Humans haven’t set foot on the moon in decades, but that could change soon. The first step in that process is to learn more about so-called “in-situ” resource management. Mining materials on the moon could aid future manned missions, and the European Space Agency (ESA) aims to begin testing …

  If a new report is accurate, Intel won’t allow its 14nm shortage or 10nm struggles to keep it from pushing ahead in overall chip manufacturing. Over the last few months, the company has taken several steps to address its 14nm production shortfall, including shipping a new line of recently …

  For the most part, asking why Apple won’t support things is a futile endeavor. Much ink has been spilled criticizing the company’s various design decisions and raising questions about its product families, particularly in recent years, as prices have risen and product decisions have seemed to prioritize form over …

  Most high-end smartphones switched over to OLED panels years ago, but Apple stubbornly kept using LCDs. Granted, they were top-quality LCDs, but OLED has become the industry standard. Apple finally started using OLED with the iPhone X, but the iPhone XR still has an LCD. This might be the …

  Android updates have been a mess for as long as there have been Android updates, and none of Google’s past attempts to improve the situation have gone anywhere. In Android 8.0 Oreo, Google implemented Project Treble, which was supposed to make it faster and easier for OEMs to roll …