A stupendously rare astronomical event occurred last year when Triton, Neptune’s largest moon, passed in front of a distant star. The extreme distances involved made this event almost impossible to observe, but the European Space Agency (ESA) helped astronomers pin down exactly where they needed to be to observe it. …

Just like in the last two years, Google is using the beginning of March to launch the first developer preview of the next version of Android. Android P, as it’s currently called, is still very much a work in progress and Google isn’t releasing it into its public Android beta …

Dinner. It’s the same grind every week, but that doesn’t make it any easier — especially when you’re short on time (always) and sticking to your health goals (mostly). If you’re struggling to keep things fresh and fast each night, it’s time to rethink your approach. Follow the lead of …

A new study shows how a group of ancient reptiles called captorhinids could detach their tails to avoid predation. This is an illustration of Captorhinus, a captorhinid reptile that lived during the Permian period, showing breakable tail vertebrae. Image credit: Robert Reisz. Captorhinids, also known as cotylosaurs, are a group …

While there has been talk of collusion between the MLB teams leading to the glacial pace of the Hot Stove, I was thinking earlier this past week about why teams would avoid signing free agents and then the light bulb turned on. This mindset has continued as draft pick compensation …

Golf courses provide golfers with the chance to hit the links and play nine or 18 holes with friends. Some of the top courses in the world are private courses that are only open to members and their guests, but many enthusiasts prefer the public courses that let anyone play. …

For the past few decades, Intel has followed the same rough update pattern. First, it launches a new CPU and chipset. At some later date, it launches another new CPU and chipset. Cross-compatibility between the two is typically limited. New motherboards may be backwards-compatible with old CPUs, but new CPUs …

Microsoft has begun taking preorders for its new Surface Pro LTE, technically known as the Surface Pro With LTE Advanced. We’ve rounded up the launch reviews from multiple publications. Before we dive into the reviews themselves, let’s take a quick look at where things stand today. The 2017 Surface Pro …

An international research team led by Swedish Museum of Natural History scientists has found that stromatolites (solid, laminar structures of biological origin) from the 1.6-billion-year-old Chitrakoot Formation in India contain abundant fossilized oxygen bubbles. Fossilized bubbles and cyanobacterial fabric from 1.6 billion-year-old phosphatized microbial mats of the Chitrakoot Formation in …

Google is giving props to another iconic author today, this time honoring Gabriel García Márquez on what would have been the novelist’s 91st birthday. The doodle is an artful illustration inspired by the magical city of Macondo — a world created by Márquez in his classic novel, “One Hundred Years …