Facebook Unveils Portal, a Video-Calling Device by MIKE ISAAC and ...
At a time when trust in its services is eroding, the social network introduced Portal and Portal Plus, […]
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There Are Fat Bears in Alaska, and You Can Vote ...
Katmai National Park in southern Alaska is home to thousands of bears. This week, rangers are celebrating the […]
Silicon Valley Investors Shunned Juul, but Back Other Nicotine Start-Ups ...
The willingness to back some nicotine start-ups while condemning others illustrates the delicate ethical dance that investors are […]
Tech Workers Now Want to Know: What Are We Building ...
Tech employees concerned their products are being deployed for government surveillance or censorship are increasingly asking their employers […]
Flashy Science Hub and Vaping Parties Fail to Win Friends ...
Industry representatives, who were barred from the negotiations, ultimately failed to get delegates to designate a special exemption […]
Drunk Birds? How a Small Minnesota City Stumbled Into the ...
A police chief’s notice that birds were getting tipsy off fermented berries prompted a media blitz. But experts […]
An Ancient Ant-Bacteria Partnership to Protect Fungus by NICHOLAS ST. ...
Amber specimens indicate that fungus-farming ants have been cooperating with antimicrobial bacteria for tens of millions of years. […]
A Tube of DNA? Not Pretty, but That’s Life by ...
Extracting and purifying DNA is routine now, but the results are not particularly aesthetic. Published: October 5, 2018 […]
Taming the Groundcherry: With Crispr, a Fussy Fruit Inches Toward ...
You may have never eaten a groundcherry, but with common gene-editing techniques it and other fruits may be […]
Hidden Stories of Chinese Migration and Culture Found in Giant ...
Scientists reported an assortment of findings resulting from a sweeping and novel analysis of data from the prenatal […]