A new study, for the first time, has compared the relationship between sodium (a component of table salt) intake and mortality, based on various methods to assess usual sodium consumption; the average measured sodium showed a direct linear relationship with mortality. He et al suggest that an inaccurate way of …

Coming up just short in a 5-7, 7-6 (4), 6-3 loss to Marin Cilic in the Queen’s Club final, Novak Djokovic produced one of his best performances since missing the second half of 2017 with an elbow injury. Cilic saved a match point at 4-5 in the second set and …

The hometown star and tournament host shot an 8-under 64 at University Ridge to take a one-stroke lead over 63-year-old Brad Bryant in the PGA Tour Champions event. Stricker birdied five of the first eight holes, bogeyed the par-5 ninth, and birdied Nos. “The wind was out of the northeast, …

Nigeria’s Ahmed Musa celebrates his team’s second goal during the group D match between Nigeria and Iceland at the 2018 soccer World Cup in the Volgograd Arena in Volgograd, Russia, Friday, June 22, 2018. A Lagos-based businessman with dealings in counterfeit jerseys since 2011 told Quartz that demand exceeds that …

  The US Supreme Court has sided with consumers to expand digital privacy rights in a closely watched case revolving around location data. In the 5-4 decision, the court ruled that police must obtain a valid search warrant before obtaining location data on a suspect from cellular carriers. So, you …

  Google abandoned its Tango augmented reality platform last year in favor of the simpler ARCore framework in Android. Now, one of the most useful Tango apps has come to ARCore phones — the aptly named Measure app. As long as you’ve got an ARCore device, you can find out …

The semiconductor industry has had an increasingly hard time delivering new process nodes over the last few years, as the benefits of each new node have shrunk and the costs of adoption have grown. One of the biggest reasons foundries like TSMC, GlobalFoundries, Samsung, and Intel are all working to …

  The world can be a noisy place, and somehow it seems to be even louder when you’re trying to get to sleep. Bose has a potential solution with its latest earbuds. The Sleepbuds can block out the world and lull you to sleep with gentle white noise. However, that’s …

Astronomers are looking forward to getting data from the recently launched Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), but speed will be of the essence when analyzing that data. To prepare, researchers from MIT and other institutions have used a batch of data from the Kepler spacecraft to test how quickly they …

Reconstructions of dinosaurs at theme parks and museums often show their tongues waving — a feature that is completely incorrect. According to new research, published in the journal PLoS ONE, dinosaur tongues were probably rooted to the bottoms of their mouths in a manner akin to extant alligators. Dinosaurs couldn’t …