After two years in space, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx probe has reached its destination: the asteroid Bennu. The rendezvous is already a significant achievement, but the mission is far from over. Eventually, OSIRIS-REx will graze the surface of Bennu to pick up a tiny bit of material to send back to Earth. …

  YouTube on Monday announced a significant change to its mobile app — it will now autoplay videos by default when users are browsing the app’s home page, aka the “Home” tab. Fortunately, the videos will not autoplay with the sound enabled, the company says. Instead, the feature is meant …

Manta rays and their relatives of the family Myliobatidae have massive, flapping fins as well as a pair of fleshy projections called cephalic lobes. A new study, published in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, shows that these two very different features have the same origin — a discovery …

Apple today announced its Best of 2018 selections – its annual, editorial list of what it considers the best content across its App Store and iTunes, along with its top charts of the most downloaded apps and games fo the year. As in other years, Apple selected a “best” app …

Physicists using the FIONA (For the Identification Of Nuclide A) device at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s 88-inch Cyclotron have performed the first direct measurements of the mass numbers for the nuclei of nihonium (Nh, element 113) and moscovium (Mc, element 115). Left: average of known decay …

On November 26, 2018, NASA’s InSight probe touched down on the western side of a flat, smooth expanse of lava called Elysium Planitia. Now the mission team has determined that the lander sits slightly tilted in a sand-filled impact crater. InSight flipped open the lens cover on its Instrument Context …

Real Style recently had the chance to chat with author and teacher Mardi Michels about her new book In the French Kitchen with Kids: Easy, Everyday Dishes for the Whole Family to Make and Enjoy and her love of French cuisine.    Real Style: What do you love about French cooking and …

Samsung is the largest smartphone maker in the world, but it faces more pressure than ever from ascendant Chinese OEMs like Huawei and Oppo. After nine years of Galaxy smartphones, Samsung is reportedly planning to pull out all the stops with the upcoming Galaxy S10. While nothing is confirmed at …

A team of U.S. paleontologists has described a remarkable new species of whale that lived about 33 million years ago (Oligocene epoch). The researchers found that this toothless whale, named Maiabalaena nesbittae, had no baleen, showing a surprising intermediary step between the baleen whales that live today and their toothed …

Golden State Warriors center Damian Jones will undergo surgery to repair a torn left pectoral muscle and will likely miss the rest of the regular season, league sources told ESPN. Green out rest of GSW trip; Cousins ramping up Draymond Green wont return from his toe injury during the Warriors …