Paleontologists have unearthed the partial skeleton of an enantiornithine (opposite bird) that lived in what is now Utah approximately 75 million years ago (Late Cretaceous epoch). According to an analysis of the fossil, published in the journal PeerJ, Late Cretaceous enantiornithines were the aerodynamic equals of the ancestors of today’s …

An international team of experimental physicists has for the first time determined the structure of ι-N2, a crystallized version of nitrogen. Turnbull et al synthesized a single crystal of ι–N2 in a diamond anvil cell from ε–N2 at 65 GPa and 477 degrees Celsius. Image credit: Turnbull et al, doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-07074-4. …

Low-dose treatment with trimethylamine N-oxide — a compound linked with the consumption of fish, seafood and a primarily vegetarian diet — reduced heart thickening (cardiac fibrosis) and markers of heart failure in an animal model of hypertension, according to a new study published in the American Journal of Physiology – …

NASA’s Juno spacecraft made its 16th close science flyby of Jupiter on October 29, 2018 and captured stunning images of the gas giant. This image captured by NASA’s Juno orbiter shows a multitude of magnificent, swirling clouds in Jupiter’s North North Temperate Belt. The image was taken at 4:58 p.m. …

China’s Ucommune, the country’s largest rival to WeWork, has been on a busy acquisition spree to build out its domestic business and now it is looking at overseas opportunities after it closed a $200 million Series D funding round. The new round was led by Hong Kong-based All-Stars Investment with …

It was the third time Werenski has finished in the top 3 in the past two years on tour. I am beating really good players who are definitely going to go to the PGA Tour one day and I am in that same category, Werenski said in a 2016 interview …

There have been a number of rumors around Intel’s modem business lately and its long-term relationship with Apple. The company is moving up its own publicly announced 5G roadmap and plans after some of these stories broke over the past few weeks, emphasizing that its upcoming XMM 8160 5G modem …

Steve Jobs famously once said that people don’t read anymore, but it turns out younger people are, in fact, reading quite a lot – just in different ways than expected. Case in point: 70 million readers log in to online community Wattpad each month, where they spend over 22 billion …

Samsung has finally shown off its first foldable phone, but only for a few seconds. At the tail end of the Samsung Developer Conference, the company talked up its display innovation and demonstrated the first foldable phone, which it will sell in 2019. The presenter folded the phone twice and …

Microsoft’s decision to pull the Windows 10 1809 update in October after a serious file-deletion bug made it through the QA process and into shipping software was undoubtedly the right one, given that the company had distributed a flaw that wiped out hundreds of GB of data on consumer systems …