An analysis of ancient food proteins preserved in ceramic vessels found at the key early farming site of Çatalhöyük in central Anatolia, in what is now Turkey, has revealed that this community processed mixes of cereals, pulses, dairy and meat products, and that particular vessels may have been reserved for …

Physicists from the Advanced Cold Molecule Electron Electric Dipole Moment (ACME) Collaboration have examined the shape of an electron’s charge with unprecedented precision to confirm that it is extremely round. The result, reported in the journal Nature, supports the strength of the Standard Model of particle physics and seems to …

Many entrepreneurs assume that an invention carries intrinsic value, but that assumption is a fallacy. Here, the examples of the 19th and 20th century inventors Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla are instructive. Even as aspiring entrepreneurs and inventors lionize Edison for his myriad inventions and business acumen, they conveniently fail …

After the 13-inning marathon that was Game 4 of the National League Championship Series, the Milwaukee Brewers were able to add a pitching reinforcement before Game 5 less than 15 hours later. Gonzalez suffered a high ankle sprain fielding a ground ball in the second inning of Game 4, and …

Both teams have struggled mightily to sell out their stadiums, and the fans who do show up tend to be fans of the opposing squads. For years the NFL used the prospect of moving a team to L.A. as a cudgel with which to beat cities into going along with …

Google has not admitted defeat in its ongoing battle with the European Commission, but it has announced some changes to its Android device policies meant to address the Commission’s concerns. In the EU, device makers will have more freedom in the way they use and license Android from Google, but …

Star Wars films have traditionally been cash cows even when they aren’t very good. So, it was a surprise when Disney’s mega-budget Solo: A Star Wars Story limped along to lose the studio millions of dollars earlier this year. Part of the problem might have been that people just aren’t …

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When Facebook announced Portal, its combination smart speaker and video chat device, people were immediately concerned about the privacy and security implications of bringing the product into their homes. Facebook has weathered multiple privacy scandals since its inception, but the blowback from the Cambridge Analytica disaster wiped out 8 percent …

Physicists from the ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) Collaboration at CERN have gained new insights into the properties of the quark-gluon plasma, a state of matter thought to have existed just after the Big Bang. The findings are published in the journal Physics Letters B. An event from the …