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If you’re looking for an Earth-like planet with an atmosphere, you need only go outside. Alternatively, you could travel some 39 light-years toward the constellation Vela. That’s where astronomers have discovered an exoplanet called GJ 1132b, which appears to have an atmosphere. While it might not be particularly hospitable to …

About 80 million years ago (Cretaceous period), a group of bees began exhibiting social behavior. Today, their descendants — honey bees, stingless bees, and bumble bees — carry ‘stowaways’ from their ancient ancestors. The stingless bee Trigonisca ameliae in Colombian copal. Image credit: Dr David Penney / University of Manchester. …

DMOZ — the Open Directory Project — officially closed today. The move comes three days later than originally planned. It marks the end of an era of humans trying to catalog the entire web. DMOZ was a project designed to organize the web using volunteer human editors and born during …

Parenthood is associated with a longer life than childlessness, particularly in older age, according to a study led by Karolinska Institute researcher Karin Modig. By the age of 60, the difference in life expectancy, which does not seem to be influenced by the sex of the child(ren), may be as …

Yesterday, Mozilla, the nonprofit organization behind Firefox, announced its new “brand experience” and visual guidelines. I’m not going to argue that branding doesn’t matter — after all, people love to argue that marketing doesn’t matter, yet decades of research into consumer buying habits and how people respond to advertising have …

Humans first arrived in North America 10,000 years earlier than previously thought, according to an analysis of ancient animal bones found in northern Yukon, Canada. Top: cut marks on a horse mandible from Bluefish Cave II; the specimen is dated to 19,650 years before present; the bone surface is a …

Ten years ago, Steve Jobs announced what has become Apple’s most profitable and defining product: the iPhone. Today, the iPhone is one of the most popular and easily recognized devices, but back then it was a radical departure from anything else on the market. At the time, there was no …

Retroviruses (Retroviridae) — a family of viruses that includes pathogens such as HIV, feline leukemia, and several cancer-causing viruses — have an ancient marine origin and originated together with, if not before, their jawed vertebrate hosts nearly 450 million years ago in the Ordovician period, according to a new study …

While a $331,200 nest egg in a 401(k) plan over 15 years is impressive, it is not the norm. Last year, the median retirement plan balance for workers age 45 to 54 was just $43,700, according to an analysis by the Vanguard Group. However, longer time on the job does …

Second- and third-generation family members — Jesse Capel, left, Mary Clara Capel, Len Capel, Richard Capel, Ron Capel, Cameron Capel and Arron Capel — examine product inside Capel Rugs’ sample room in its Troy, N.C., headquarters. TROY, N.C. — In 1917, A. Leon Capel converted the plow line company he …