Alexa, Can You Have a Conversation With Us? (At Least ...
Digital assistants from Amazon, Apple and Google can only have meager back-and-forth exchanges with us. Listen to how […]
Monthly Archives: August 2018
PM Thunderstorms for today in #Pully, #Switzerland!
Good morning This is the #weather forecast for #today: With a high of 24°C and a low of […]
Perseid Fireball and Persistent Train
Before local midnight on August 12, this brilliant Perseid meteor flashed above the Poloniny Dark Sky Park, Slovakia, […]
Archaeologists Find 3,200-Year-Old Cheese in an Egyptian Tomb by NIRAJ ...
The cheese was found in a tomb that had been thought lost to shifting sands until it was […]
F.D.A. Approves Generic EpiPen That May Be Cheaper by SHEILA ...
Teva Pharmaceuticals will sell a generic copy of Mylan’s EpiPen, which became the target of public outrage over […]
Settling Arguments About Hydrogen With 168 Giant Lasers by KENNETH ...
Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory said they were “converging on the truth” in an experiment to understand […]
‘Weaponized Ad Technology’: Facebook’s Moneymaker Gets a Critical Eye by ...
Facebook gives political campaigns the ability to tailor ads to as few as 20 people. Critics say the […]
Paternity Tests at the Penguin House by JOANNA KLEIN
New research challenges assumptions that some penguins mate for life, and suggests DNA testing is needed to avoid […]
The Secret to Ant Efficiency Is Idleness by JAMES GORMAN
To dig a nest tunnel quickly and get the most out of their efforts, 30 percent of fire […]
Trapped in 99-Million-Year-Old Amber, a Beetle With Pilfered Pollen by ...
The discovery is among the strongest evidence in the fossil record that the insects pollinated prehistoric cycads, a […]