This summer, when we asked major league veterans to talk about getting old, only one of them – Adam Jones, father of two sons – brought up Lightning Mc Queen. Aging is not so much the body breaking down, Jones theorized, as the fact that every generation is better than …

Our local star is very bright by human standards—just looking at it for a few seconds can wreck your vision. That’s just an infinitesimal fraction of the total brightness of the universe. How bright is it? Well, we finally have an answer to that. Using new measurement techniques, researchers have …

The Archbasilica of St John Lateran is the cathedral church in the city of Rome, Italy. It is the oldest and highest ranking of the four papal major basilicas, giving it the unique title of ‘Archbasilica.’ The church was originally built in the 4th century CE by Constantine the Great, …

The twin LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) detectors, located in Livingston, Louisiana, and Hanford, Washington, and the Virgo detector located near Pisa, Italy, have detected four new gravitational waves — ripples in the fabric of spacetime. The collision of two black holes is seen in this still from a computer …

After traveling through space for more than two years and 1.2 billion miles (2 billion km), NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer) spacecraft arrived at its destination — asteroid Bennu (formerly 1999 RQ36) — on December 3, 2018. NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is on a mission to explore …

Back in July, former Seahawks and Patriots star cornerback Brandon Browner, once a part of the Legion of Boom, was arrested yet again, this time on multiple charges in what looked like a very strange and concerning situation. Browner, who had been arrested multiple times in the previous calendar year, …

  Last week, Microsoft announced that its overhauled its Office iconography, with new designs intended to reflect all of the things people use Office for. Why this requires a new style of icons is somewhat beyond me, but then again, I’m still happily using Office 2010. Either way, Microsoft has …

Conventional CMOS scaling has entered a state of terminal decline. That’s the bottom-line takeaway, when you cut through the marketing spiel from companies and look at the expected improvements offered at future nodes. 7nm will still offer a significant improvement over 16/14nm, 5nm is expected to deliver smaller (though still …

Nvidia has declared PhysX 3.4 is now open source, while the upcoming 4.0 version will be open sourced when it ships later this month. I am genuinely surprised to have written this. Back when Nvidia bought Ageia, it took the company’s idea for a PPU — a Physics Processing Unit …

There was a time many years ago when Microsoft owned the browser space thanks to a combination of shady dealings and limited choices. Those days are long gone, and now Microsoft’s revamped Edge browser is but a tiny sliver of the browser market. The situation is so dire that Redmond …