A team of scientists from the University of California, Riverside (UCR) has identified three new species of bacteria — Lactobacillus micheneri, L. timberlakei and L. quenuiae — that live on both wild flowers and bees. These bacterial species may play a role in preserving the nectar and pollen that female …

One of New Guinea’s dancing birds-of-paradise — the Vogelkop Superb Bird-of-Paradise (Lophorina niedda) — was finally confirmed to be an entirely new species, thanks to its distinctive dance. The Vogelkop Superb Bird-of-Paradise (Lophorina niedda). Image credit: Tim Laman. The Vogelkop Superb Bird-of-Paradise is found only in New Guinea’s far-western Bird’s …

A team of physicists at Aalto University in Finland has successfully created a Bose-Einstein condensate of light coupled with metal (gold) electrons, so-called surface plasmon polaritons. The research is published online in the journal Nature Physics. The wavelength of emitted light grows, that is, the energy decreases, along the gold …

Major League Soccer Board of Governors meeting came and went without a final resolution on Futbol Club Cincinnati’s expansion bid, but that doesn’t mean FC Cincinnati isn’t progressing toward becoming an MLS franchise. MLS officials singled out FC Cincinnati in a Tuesday statement, saying it viewed Monday’s Cincinnati City Council …

After a relatively lengthy wait, Google has started to roll out its mobile-first index. First announced back in 2016, the mobile-first index is a direct response to one of the most significant shifts in consumer behavior over the past few years. Last year, research revealed mobile devices now account for 57 …

Few substances have excited the computer industry as much as graphene. Few substances have proven as maddening and difficult to work with as graphene. The collision of these two facts is why, 14 years after Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov characterized and isolated the substance, we’re still waiting to see …

Microsoft has announced it will take advantage of a new security capability Intel has enabled in its integrated GPUs. Normally, antivirus scans run entirely on your CPU. Back in the old days, this process could bring a system to its knees. Single-threaded CPUs would lag badly if you tried to …

The Russian government is waging war on the private messaging app Telegram, and there is already some collateral damage. Telegram was banned in the country recently after failing to turn over its encryption keys as ordered by the courts. Russia is attempting to enforce the ban in any possible way, …

Tesla is about to ramp up production of the Model 3 sedan according to an email obtained by Jalopnik. The company shut down the sedan’s production line this week, but this email says the line will soon be running and a third shift will be added, allowing the sedan to …

Google has updated its schema documentation around job postings to explain that if you use job schema on your job listings on your website, and those job listings have actually expired, Google may prevent you from showing job schema in the future. Google said, “[J]obs that are no longer open …