Now, after hearing the backlash from several players, the league is attempting to bring more clarity to the the rule so that the NFL community has a better understanding of what kinds of hits can result in a penalty and/or an ejection. To be ejected, a player has to lower …

Just when you think another team besides a LeBron James squad is going to win the Eastern Conference, James proves the adage true: Beating him four times in an East series is incredibly difficult. James added another chapter to his legendary career with a phenomenal performance against Boston on Sunday, …

LG waited longer than normal to announce its big 2018 flagship phone, but it finally took the wraps off the LG G7 ThinQ a few weeks ago. Today, the phone is available for purchase on most US carriers. While LG has had trouble competing with the likes of Samsung, it’s …

Fans of Plex’s powerful and flexible media-serving platform will be delighted to hear that the company has extended it to provide a VR-friendly video viewing environment for leading mobile VR devices. Plex users with a Daydream-compatible, Oculus Go, or Samsung Gear VR headset can simply download the new Plex VR …

Google Assistant is arguably the most advanced AI that’s available for public use. It’s also incredibly accessible. Just long-press the home button on an Android phone or shout “Hey Google” in a house with Google Home speakers, and you can start asking Assistant to do things. What if you ask …

Neutron stars are the smallest, densest stars known to exist. But their small size, and the fact that they often don’t emit light in the visible spectrum, can make them difficult to see. The circumstances under which we can see neutron stars are rather complex — we know of about …

Until last year, the  National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) was making do with some fairly ancient weather satellites. The 1990s era hardware wasn’t up to the task of gathering the data scientists want, but the agency deployed the first of its new generation GOES-R satellites in 2016. Earlier this …

Dwarf mongooses (Helogale parvula) provide more grooming to those groupmates who contribute more to sentinel behavior — acting as a raised guard to look out for danger, according to new research from the University of Bristol, UK. Group of dwarf mongooses in which different cooperative acts are exchanged even with …

A set of three nearly identical genes found only in humans, NOTCH2NL, appears to play a critical role in the development of our large brains, according to a pair of studies published this week in the journal Cell. The NOTCH2NL genes are found exclusively in humans and appeared between 3 …

Wind-blown dunes are known on Earth, Mars, Venus, Saturn’s moon Titan, and Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko — and, now on Pluto, according to a team of planetary researchers led by a University of Plymouth scientist. This Pluto mosaic was made from New Horizons LORRI images taken on July 14, 2015, from a …