Professor Stephen Hawking’s theory about the Big Bang, which he worked on in collaboration with Katholieke Universiteit Leuven’s Professor Thomas Hertog, has been published this week in the Journal of High-Energy Physics (arXiv.org preprint). Professor Stephen Hawking. Modern theories of the Big Bang predict that our local Universe came into …

Dark chocolate consumption improves the ability to see low- and high-contrast targets, possibly owing to increased blood flow, suggests a small new study from the University of the Incarnate Word Rosenberg School of Optometry in San Antonio, Texas. Rabin et al found slight improvement in vision after eating dark chocolate. …

LeBron James did it to the Raptors again, because this is what he does. James went 3-of-6 from the field in the final five minutes, getting seven of the Cavaliers’ last nine points. This hustle effort by James in the final minute said everything. The Cavaliers outscored the Raptors, 23-18, …

This morning at the Bing Partner Summit, at Microsoft headquarters, the company announced a new display network, the Microsoft Audience Network (MSAN). Though the company has had the “Bing Audience Network,” the new offering brings together a number of elements that weren’t previously available: Bing search-intent signals, Microsoft’s AI capabilities …

Link building starts with an email between two people. More often than not, these are two people who don’t know each other. Yes, you know who this person is since you’re sending the email, and you think she will love your content. But be honest, you’re really a complete stranger to …

Google released the latest version of AdWords Editor this week with several new features, including the ability to download search terms reports, more robust filtering options, account-level extension associations and more. When viewing keyword lists in AdWords Editor, a new Search Terms tab is now available. As shown in the …

Google is trying something entirely new with today’s doodle, producing its first ever virtual reality/360° interactive video to honor legendary film director Georges Méliès. The cutting-edge VR technology employed in the doodle reflects his groundbreaking special effects work in early cinematography. In addition to being a film director, Méliès was …

The United States Department of Defense has halted the sale of all smartphones, routers, modems, and other hardware that contains any equipment manufactured by Huawei or ZTE. The order affects all of the stores on various Pentagon military bases and covers both the initial hardware and “adjacent products.” “These devices …

Jupiter has a whopping 69 moons, and you don’t hear a lot about the largest of them. It may not have the icy sheets of Europa or the geysers of Enceladus, but Ganymede is remarkable in its own right. In fact, it may be even more interesting than we thought. …

A team of physicists at Yale University has observed a signature of a discrete time crystal (DTC) in an unexpected place: a crystal of ammonium dihydrogen phosphate, better known as monoammonium phosphate (MAP). Rovny et al looked for a signature of a discrete time crystal in a crystal of monoammonium …