NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has detected organic molecules in 3-billion-year-old sedimentary rocks at the base of the Murray formation at Pahrump Hills, Gale crater, as well as seasonal variations in the levels of methane in the Martian atmosphere. Mosaic of the Valles Marineris hemisphere of Mars projected into point perspective, …

LeBron James, partially responsible for ushering in the NBA’s era of superteams when he joined the Miami Heat in 2010, said that for as much talent as the Golden State Warriors possess, the greater challenge in bringing them down might be matching their collective basketball IQ. The Cleveland Cavaliers trail …

Episode 10 of the NewRetirement podcast is an interview with Mary Beth Franklin.  Mary Beth is a nationally recognized expert in Social Security claiming strategies.  In fact, she literally wrote the book (“Maximizing Your Clients’ Social Security Retirement Benefits,”) that retirement planning experts use to advise clients on Social Security. …

PC gamers have traditionally been tethered to their gaming machines, but Valve’s Steam Link app offered a potential escape. Steam Link lets you stream a PC game to your mobile device, and the Android launch went off without a hitch. Things weren’t so peachy on the iOS side, though. Apple …

AMD unveiled its 7nm Vega GPU for machine intelligence workloads at Computex. This revised version of Vega 10 — the high-end solution that AMD debuted at the end of summer back in 2017 — increases total onboard HBM2 to 32GB, along with a raft of unspecified changes that AMD obviously …

At Computex this week, Intel showed off a 28-core CPU running at 5GHz. That kind of clock speed in a 28-core CPU yields tremendous dividends, including a Cinebench-smashing multi-threaded score of 7334, but there were also questions about just how Intel would achieve and hold such tremendous clock speeds. The …

US law enforcement revealed several weeks ago that consumer routers all over the world had been infected with dangerous malware. Owners were advised to rest the devices, but that was only a temporary fix. Now, the news is even worse. The VPNFilter malware affects more device models than previously thought, …

Finding planets orbiting distant stars is only the first stage in the search for alien life. Most of the exoplanets detected by astronomers currently are large gas giants, and the smaller ones might be too hot, cold, or radioactive. We need to understand the environment around the host stars to …

The Mars of today is a barren and inhospitable place for living things, but scientists think it may have been very different in the past. One of NASA’s aims with the Curiosity Rover is to search for signs of ancient life on the red planet. The rover has returned a …

A research team led by scientists at Queen Mary University of London, UK, has developed a new way to grow materials which could regenerate hard tissues. The materials exhibit high stiffness, hardness, and acid resistance, and could be used for a wide variety of dental complications such as the prevention …