Genetic scientists from the University of California, Riverside, and the W.M. Keck Science Department of Claremont McKenna, Pitzer and Scripps Colleges, have managed to create a strain of red-eyed mutant wasps. Red-eyed Nasonia vitripennis. Image credit: Li et al, doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-00990-3. The red-eyed wasps were created to prove that CRISPR …
Read More »Preparing for local reach in a ‘post-rank’ world, Part 2: Create content for local research
In my last post, I wrote about why local businesses need to focus on digital data sharing to perform better for voice, or “instant” searches. But I don’t think instant answers will cover every query or even most queries, at least not for a really, really long time (singularity, anyone?). …
Read More »Physicists Create Fluid with ‘Negative Mass’
An international team of physicists from the United States, Japan, and China has created a fluid with negative mass, which is exactly what it sounds like. A paper describing the research is published by the journal Physical Review Letters. Khamehchi et al created a fluid with negative effective mass. Image …
Read More »Bing Ads Editor now supports Enhanced CPC, exports to create expanded text ads
The latest version of Bing Ads Editor is out. Version 11.9 offers support for Enhanced CPC bidding and the ability to export standard text ads to a spreadsheet formatted for enhanced text ads. If you’re not importing expanded text ads from AdWords, you can convert Bing Ads standard text ads to …
Read More »African Neolithic Populations Helped Create Sahara Desert, Research Suggests
The desertification of the Sahara — the largest hot desert and the third largest desert in the world — has long been a target for researchers trying to understand climate and ecological tipping points. A new paper by Seoul National University geoarchaeologist David Wright challenges the conclusions of most studies …
Read More »NASA’s Cold Atom Laboratory to Create ‘Coolest Spot in Universe’
This summer, a suite of instruments called the Cold Atom Laboratory (CAL) will fly to the International Space Station (ISS), where it will utilize the microgravity environment of the space station to form, create, and study ultra-cold quantum gases. Artist’s concept of a magneto-optical trap and atom chip to be …
Read More »NASA plans to create coldest spot in the universe on ISS
What you think of as “cold” really isn’t very cold in the grand scheme of things. Even the frigid depths of space are toasty by the standards of NASA’s Cold Atom Laboratory (CAL), an instrument being developed to study matter at extremely low temperatures. This device will head up to …
Read More »Supersolid: Physicists Create New State of Matter
Two teams of physicists have independently created a mysterious new state of matter. The state is known as a supersolid and it combines the properties of both solid and superfluid states. Illustration of a supersolid state, in which the properties of a frictionless fluid and a crystalline state coincide. Image …
Read More »Create an RFP for your next website project with this step-by-step guide
From technology selection to revamped branding, the process of redesigning a website is far more than new colors and content. Proper up-front preparation and a thorough understanding of your goals and needs set you up for long-term success. This guide from Bayshore Solutions will walk you through the RFP development …
Read More »Google Maps new feature lets users create lists of saved places that can be shared & accessed offline
Google Maps has added a new list-making feature that lets users save locations to a specified list so that it can be accessed later — even offline — and shared with other users. To save a location in Google Maps, tap on its name and then the “Save” icon to …
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