Paleontologists have unearthed the remains of a previously unknown slug-like creature that lived during the Early Ordovician epoch, 478 million years ago. The discovery, reported in the journal Nature, sheds new light on the earliest stages in the evolution of mollusks, a group of invertebrates that includes clams, snails and …
Read More »Report: Releasing Super Bowl ads early jump-starts lifts in brand search
It’s no secret that most Super Bowl advertisers see a surge in search volume on and immediately following game day. What is not so well known is how much of a bump advertisers can gain by releasing their ads, or ad teasers, as is increasingly common this year, ahead of Super …
Read More »Average Retirement Age: Is Early Retirement Even a Thing Anymore?
Up until a few years ago, early retirement was the goal of many older Americans. However, this trend seems to have peaked. What is an Early Retirement? There is no official measure of “early retirement.” Retirement is a word that has come to mean many different things to many different …
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Read More »FCA introduces 1% cap on early exit pension charges
People over the age of 55 looking to withdraw their pensions will pay a maximum of 1% from next year. The Financial Conduct Authority said it is capping early exit charges on personal pensions at 1% from the 1 March 2017. Early exit charges that are currently set at less than …
Read More »More Evidence for Warm, Wet Early Mars
A study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets provides new evidence for a warm early Mars that hosted water across a geologically long timescale, rather than in short episodic bursts. This false-color map, produced by the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA), depicts the topography of the Martian surface. …
Read More »Early Evidence of Dairying Discovered along Mediterranean Coast
An international research group has found evidence that humans have been utilizing milk and dairy products across the northern Mediterranean region from the onset of agriculture – approximately 9,000 years ago. C.D. Spiteri et al discovered widespread evidence of prehistoric milk production in southern Europe. Image credit: Samuel Daniell. The …
Read More »Middle Eastern Bitumen Found in Early Medieval Buried Ship in UK
Bitumen — a rare, tar-like material — from the Middle East is present in the 7th century Anglo-Saxon ship-burial at Sutton Hoo, Suffolk, UK, according to a study led by Dr. Pauline Burger of the British Museum, London. Model of the Sutton Hoo ship-burial. The placement of the burial chamber …
Read More »Ancient DNA Provides New Insights into Early Stages of Maize Domestication
According to an international team of scientists who have sequenced the genome of a 5,310-year-old maize cob from the Tehuacan Valley, the maize (Zea mays) grown in central Mexico more than five millennia ago was genetically more similar to modern maize than to its wild counterpart. A 5,310-year-old maize cob …
Read More »Pit People launches via Xbox One Game Preview, Steam Early Access on January 13
Pit People, the strategy RPG from Castle Crashers and BattleBlock Theater developer The Behemoth, will launch for Xbox One via Game Preview and PC via Steam Early Access on January 13, 2017, the studio announced. According to The Behemoth, the core gameplay is complete and new content will be added …
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