Birds-of-paradise are a family of small to medium-sized forest birds found in the New Guinea region. These birds are among the most beautiful creatures on Earth. Male birds-of-paradise are notorious for their extravagant feather ornaments, complex calls, and shape-shifting dance moves — all evolved to win a mate. According to …

Deep in the Ecuadorian Amazon, a newly-identified species of the parasitoid wasp genus Zatypota transforms Anelosimus eximius, one of only about 25 species of ‘social’ spiders worldwide, into a zombie-like drone that abandons its colony to do the wasp’s bidding. This is the adult stage of the parasitoid wasp Zatypota …

Vegetable, fruit, and orange juice consumption may be associated with a lower risk of memory loss in men, according to a new study from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The study by Yuan et al supports a long-term beneficial role of vegetable, fruit, and orange juice consumption …

Former 49ers linebacker Reuben Foster was claimed off waivers by the Redskins on Tuesday days after he was cut by San Francisco following a weekend arrest in Tampa, Florida, on suspicion of misdemeanor domestic violence battery, Washington announced. Foster, however, will not be permitted to practice or play in games …

Tis the season… No, it is not quite time to decide whether you’ll say Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas, Bah Humbug or none of the above. It does, however, involve shopping! The 2019 Medicare Open Enrollment season is upon us and will last from Oct. 15 to Dec. 7. Now is …

  Feeling frazzled by holiday fanfare? Do you also have nagging worries about your retirement plans? One of the best ways to control stress of any kind is to make a list and check it twice. And we have done that for you. Here is a handy yearly retirement checklist …

Google launched its Project Fi cellular service in 2015, and it was limited to Google’s phones for most of the last three and a half years. Google recently added support for a handful of Motorola and LG phones, but it’s finally opening the doors to much more popular devices. According …

In the wake of Intel’s latest Core i9-9900K launch, there have been questions about just where the CPU market would go from here. As things stand, both AMD and Intel have rolled out eight-core/16-thread chips at the top of the desktop market. Both companies are working on die shrinks and …

AMD may have revealed its upcoming 7nm Epyc CPUs at its New Horizons event, but it only touched on many of the architectural enhancements and improvements for the core. We know that the chip pairs a series of 7nm chiplets (each containing eight CPU cores), but fine details on cache …

With all the excitement about convertible computers and the popularity of Apple’s iPad Pro, it’s natural for Google to introduce one for its Chrome OS lineup. In some ways, the new Pixel Slate is a successor to the highly rated but expensive Pixelbook. But Google has moved from a traditional …