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From life-changing medical advancements to colorful auroras, this year has been packed with incredible science. It was hard to pick our favorite headlines from 2024, but if we needed to put five science stories in a time capsule for safekeeping, these would be our top choices. Scientists found a whopping 100 …

NASA’s InSight lander may have ended its run on Mars, but the data it collected is still reverberating around the scientific community, not unlike the seismic waves it tracked within the red planet. After initially chalking a marsquake up to an asteroid impact, researchers now report that this massive quake …

When you look up at the night sky, do you wonder about what’s out there? Most of the stars we can see with the naked eye reside within our own galaxy. And now we know a lot more about them. The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Gaia mission has just announced …

Last year, news broke that scientists had discovered a huge inbound comet, named Bernardinelli-Bernstein. It was the most distant comet we’d ever discovered. And it was huge, so big scientists originally thought it was a minor planet. But it was so distant that all our pictures were still blurry. So, …

  Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry is as hot as ever, with a record 204 billion downloads and $120 billion in consumer spending in 2019. People now spend three hours and 40 minutes per …

The past few months have been bad for Google’s search reputation. Long considered the “gold standard” in search, Google has seen its search results questioned as never before. It’s a body blow to a core service that should be safe as Google tries to grow in new directions. Recovering from that blow …

The breaking news came on March 7, 2017, that Baidu is now supporting Google’s mobile framework, AMP. The tech leader of Baidu MIP, Gao Lei, gave a speech at Google’s first AMP conference in New York. He confirmed that Baidu is working hand-in-hand with Google to accelerate the faster web …

Photo: citiesbesthairartists on Instagram  If you’ve been wanting to lighten your locks, spring offers a perfect opportunity to experiment with a variety of hues. After all, the upcoming warmer temperatures mean that shades of blond and a myriad of pastels can only be around the corner. This spring, lilac hair has …

Data from the Insured Retirement Institute (IRI) suggests that Baby Boomers are completely busted and busted up about their retirement prospects.  Boomers have made some big retirement planning mistakes — even beyond giving away their record collections. The results of the IRI survey reveal that Boomers have an extremely dismal …

Throughout his career Ben Affleck has been really hit or miss. When he’s been up, he’s had such hits as Good Will Hunting, Argo, The Town, Armageddon and Shakespeare in Love. But when he’s been down, he’s been way down to the point that the film flops. We’re not taking Batman v. …