An international team of researchers from Germany and the United States has sequenced the genome of the giant tegu (Salvator merianae), also known as the black and white tegu, a South American lizard with its own heating system. The giant tegu (Salvator merianae). Image credit: Renato Recoder. “Most reptiles are …

One of the clubs all-time leading goal scorers is in Cincinnati, Ohio preparing to write a new chapter in his career, when expansion club FC Cincinnati open MLS play in 2019. Adis acquisition was a long-term play for FC Cincy the club sold Adi on its MLS future, even as …

You would not expect software for your headphones to seriously impair your computer’s security, but that’s exactly what Sennheiser managed to do. The desktop application for its headsets, called HeadSetup and HeadSetup Pro, included a botched root certificate, allowing anyone aware of the flaw to impersonate websites without detection. Sennheiser has …

NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine hosted a press conference today to reveal the next phase of the agency’s lunar ambitions. The Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) has its first official partners. The nine companies announced at the event will begin developing technology to support the upcoming Gateway lunar station and land …

You can tell when winter, and more specifically the Christmas holidays have arrived when winter festivals start popping up all across Canada. Some have been running for many years, yet each year new ones start appearing. Starting today The Aurora Festival in Toronto at Ontario Place makes its premiere, and …

If you’d told me five years ago that Intel was about to stumble into arguably the worst manufacturing problems of its existence, I would have been surprised. Our 2012 story on why Intel leads (led) the world in semiconductor manufacturing now looks more like a historical retrospective than a confident …

  DJI is known for making drone aircraft, but that’s taught the company a few things about cameras. It’s released a few handheld cameras and related accessories, but the new Osmo Pocket is the smallest handheld stabilizer it’s ever offered. With 3-axis stabilization, you can swing the Osmo Pocket every …

Not everyone thinks the web needs saving. After all, it’s a bigger and more essential part of our lives than almost anyone could have predicted when Tim Berners-Lee first wrote a browser for what became the World Wide Web. But the original peer-to-peer, open-protocol, read-write architecture has been overshadowed in …

While everyone was caught up in the spectacle of NASA’s latest Mars landing, there was another important event happening nearby. Two tiny cubesats traveling along with InSight came online, beaming data back to Earth from InSight. No one has ever sent one of these small, off-the-shelf satellites so far away …

Your cells need energy to function, and they get most of that energy from mitochondria. Naturally, scientists have taken great interest in studying this cellular organelle, but we’re still encountering surprises. We’ve long believed that mitochondrial DNA is only passed down by mothers. A team of researchers from the US, …