The Pumapunku (Gateway of the Puma or Jaguar), a highly damaged pre-Columbian monument at the ancient archaeological site of Tiwanaku, Bolivia, has been reconstructed using 3D printed miniature models of architectural fragments. Historic photograph of the architecture on the east side of the Pumapunku platform taken by Max Uhle in …

A team of researchers from the United Kingdom and the Netherlands has identified a mechanism that enables angiosperms (flowering plants) to sense and remember changes in their environment. Histochemical staining of Arabidopsis thaliana: (i) 7-day-old seedling primary root tip, (ii) rosette leaf, (iii) cauline leaf and (iv) inflorescence of Col-0 …

Physicists from the NPDGamma Experiment at the DoE’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have measured the weak interaction between protons and neutrons in the atom’s core, predicted in the Standard Model that describes the elementary particles and their interactions. The findings appear in the journal Physical Review Letters (arXiv.org preprint). …

A team of scientists at the University of Washington has genetically modified a common houseplant, the pothos ivy (Epipremnum aureum), to efficiently remove two toxins — chloroform and benzene — from the air around it. The transgenic plant expresses a protein that transforms toxins into molecules that the plant can …

  The Indian government is playing the role of festive party pooper for Walmart and Amazon after it announced new regulations that look set to impede the U.S. duo’s efforts to grow their businesses in India. Online commerce in the country is tipped to surpass $100 billion per year by …

When the season is officially in the books, the Giants have plenty of decisions to make during the offseason at numerous positions on the roster, including quarterback. Im just worrying about this game, finishing this season and going out there and playing hard, Manning told reporters Wednesday, via Ralph Vacchiano …

Data-driven digital marketing expert and senior director of digital intelligence at Wpromote, Simon Poulton, was one of the SMX East speakers during the “Making Your Analytics Work Harder And Smarter” session. There were a lot of questions during this popular program so Simon took the time to answer a few …

ATT plans to start lying to customers in the near future by claiming that the service they’re receiving is, by some metric, 5G. It will do this by displaying a “5G E” logo in the corner of devices, in which the “E” stands for 5G Evolution. What’s 5G Evolution? It’s …

The question of who would be TSMC’s first EUV customer has supposedly been answered, though it’s not Qualcomm or Apple, two companies you might have expected. Instead, it’ll reportedly be Huawei bringing the first 7nm EUV chips to market (assuming, of course, that Samsung doesn’t bring their own designs out …

Researchers from Lanzhou University in China have shown that the slime mold Physarum polycephalum is able to solve the Traveling Salesman Problem, a combinatorial test with exponentially increasing complexity, in linear time. Using focused light stimulus as negative feedback to maintain the criteria of the task, the authors demonstrated that …