An international team of physicists from Amherst College and Aalto University has created the Shankar skyrmion, a quasiparticle consisting of a knotted configuration of atomic magnetic moments, or spins. Theoretical physicists predicted the existence of the Shankar skyrmion more than four decades ago, but this is the first time such …

RedDoorz, a budget hotel startup focused on Southeast Asia, has closed $11 million in new funding to expand its presence. The three-year-old startup is a number offers a network of hotels that are grouped together under a single brand. The goal is a happy combination that marries the ubiquity of …

The New York Times is reporting that Google will sell Zagat to restaurant search and recommendations site The Infatuation. Terms were not disclosed; an announcement will be made today. The potential sale was first reported by Reuters earlier this year. Google bought the Zagat brand and all of its content …

Google continues to push its efforts to improve the mobile experience for users, most recently releasing Mobile Scorecard Impact Calculator tools to illustrate importance of mobile page speed. Google’s push isn’t just to make users feel good – to put the Mobile Scorecard data into monetary perspective for stakeholders, the …

Often, when we think of optimizing our call to action (CTA), we immediately think of landing page buttons and tweaking colors. However, your landing page CTA isn’t the only marketing CTA that matters. To get people to your landing page, you need them to click on your ads, which means …

SMX West is coming to sunny San Jose in just a few days, and we really hope to see you there! Join your SEO and SEM colleagues March 13-15 for in-depth learning and exceptional networking. You’ll leave stocked with fresh inspiration and the actionable tactics you need to get the …

Photo: Twenty20 When it comes to people’s top goals for improving body composition, fat loss often takes the cake. But we can’t talk about how to lower body fat percentage without touching on how to drop pounds in general. That’s because you can’t necessarily target fat loss in one specific …

A recent expedition to the Danger Islands, a chain of remote islands off the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, used new technologies to discover and survey a breeding colony of over 1.5 million Adélie penguins (Pygoscelis adeliae). The discovery is reported in the journal Scientific Reports. Borowicz et al …

It’s asking a lot because they don’t have the collective offensive star power of a Houston or Golden State and thus have a much smaller margin for error, but clearly when they play to their peak, they can hang with, and beat, the very best. Ultimately, the Celtics are not …

Elephants, such as these Loxodonta africana, are amorous monsters, and it seems in the past this has extended to many interspecies liasons in between elephant types and even with mammoths. Public domain By Stephen Luntz There are 3 living types of elephants, not 2, and their household tree is more …