Photos (clockwise from top left): Big Sur International Marathon, Vermont City Marathon, Los Angeles Marathon, Grandma’s Marathon — Duluth, Inc. When it comes to spring marathons, the iconic Boston Marathon is always the pinnacle event of the season. But it’s not the only time runners around the country will lace …

Non-tailed double-stranded DNA (dsDNA) viruses infect bacteria and dominate water samples from the world’s oceans. They have long escaped analysis because they have characteristics that standard tests can’t detect. However, scientists from MIT and elsewhere have now managed to isolate and study representatives of these elusive viruses. Thin-section electron microscopy …

A new study, conducted before and after the 2004 closure of a coal-burning power plant in China, found children born before the closure had shorter telomeres — specialized sections of DNA that allow chromosomes to be faithfully copied during cell division — than those conceived and born after the plant …

Google launched the Questions and Answers feature in August of 2017, but it has been surprisingly underutilized by both marketers and small business owners. I’m going to try to explain why this feature is so important and why it’s crucial that you start actively monitoring the questions you receive on …

Today marks the 136th birthday of iconic writer Virginia Woolf. To honor Woolf, Google commissioned London-based artist Louise Pomeroy to design the image now being shared on Google’s US home page and several of its international home pages. Pomeroy said she added the autumnal leaves around Woolf’s profile in the …

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Looking at marketing automation platforms? We compare 14 vendors Jan 25, 2018 by Digital Marketing Depot Virtually every marketing automation platform provides three core capabilities: email …

Paid search spending increased by just over 10 percent year over year in Q4 2017 across Marin Software’s customer base. CPC growth doubled that of overall spend with an increase of roughly 20 percent year over year. Mobile CPCs increased 25 percent year over year, accounting for 53 percent of …

Photo: tatyanatravel on Instagram  As most patrons of the arts know, the name “Mikhail Baryshnikov” is synonymous with ballet. After all, the 69-year-old Latvian-born Russian talent and father of four is considered the world’s leading male ballet dancer. However, Baryshnikov’s latest gig ventures into a completely different area of the arts- …

Although she’s been a standout soccer player for the Pennington School, East Windsor native Megan Porras had never considered playing international soccer. Until she got a call from Walter Bustamante, a retired American soccer midfielder who played professionally and then opened the Walter Bustamante Soccer Academy. Bustamante had been impressed …

We keep trying to improve the NewRetirement retirement planning calculator so that you can feel good about your future.  The latest improvement is a feature that let’s you: Find out if you have any future “excess” income built into your retirement plan Specify if the “excess” income should be spent …