Samsung is gearing up for CES 2018 and hinting at the kind of projects it’ll showcase this year aside from consumer products. The company maintains a creative lab it calls the C-Lab, and plans to demonstrate three new projects there, while also highlighting seven now-commercialized C-Lab projects. The three new …

Astronomers started checking out a novel star a few years ago called KIC 8462852. A series of fluctuations in the star’s brightness brought up a number of interesting possibilities. Perhaps the star had dust clouds or gaggles of comets that periodically blocked out the light. That’s interesting in an expected …

If it seems like everywhere you look someone is running a half-marathon, that’s because it’s becoming increasingly true. According to Running USA, 1.9 million runners finished a half-marathon in the U.S. in 2016, with a record 2,800 half-marathon events in the country that year. While running 13.1 miles can still …

Photo: Twenty20 Come January, it’s out with the old and in with the new. And for many of us, that includes habits that are (literally) weighing us down. If you’ve resolved to cut out the processed junk and nix unhealthy convenience foods, welcome to the world of clean eating. While …

Though calcium taste doesn’t fit into the five established tastes the tongue’s receptors can identify, humans describe it as slightly bitter and sour. According to a new study published in the journal Neuron, calcium taste also exists in fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster). Lee et al demonstrated that fruit flies are …

An artificial sugar called trehalose enhances the virulence of epidemic lineages of Clostridium difficile, a Gram-positive spore forming bacterium that causes life-threatening inflammation of the colon, according to a new study published in the journal Nature. This digitally-colorized scanning electron microscopic image depicts a large grouping of rod-shaped Clostridium difficile. …

Genetic analysis of DNA from a female infant found at the Upward Sun River archaeological site in Alaska has revealed a previously unknown Native American population, whom scientists have named ‘Ancient Beringians.’ The research appears in the journal Nature. A scientific illustration of the Upward Sun River camp in what …

Google seems to be testing the ability of business owners to upload videos to their local listings within the Google My Business dashboard. Colan Nielsen posted screen shots of the feature within the dashboard. This is not to be confused with the Local Guides, volunteers who help Google keep map …

Forrester Research says that search marketing is poised for “a late-stage renaissance.” The firm, which also expects significant mobile, video and social media advertising growth through 2021, cites a number of factors behind its prediction for search-marketing gains. Among them, it says that privacy measures — especially the General Data …

Ahead of the 2017 holiday season, I wrote a column detailing how much more important locally focused ads became during the 2016 holiday shopping season, namely Local Inventory Ads and ads on Google Maps. Analyzing last year’s data, I found that searchers became increasingly likely to search for both brand and …