More than eight million to 14 million tonnes of unreported fish catches are traded illicitly every year, costing the legitimate market between $9 billion and $17 billion in trade each year, according to new UBC research. | Continue reading
Sand dunes, like many ecosystems, have more than one comfort zone. Variations in moisture, especially, can shift them from active, blowing waves of dry sand to rolling mounds with soils held down by grass and low shrubs. | Continue reading
Scientists have devised new analytical tools to break down the enigmatic history of Mars' atmosphere—and whether life was once possible there. | Continue reading
This is very cute and also really wrong. | Continue reading
Cases of polar bears killing and eating each other are on the rise in the Arctic as melting ice and human activity erode their habitat, a Russian scientist said Wednesday. | Continue reading
Steven Spielberg is handing Indiana Jones 5 directorial duties off to James Mangold. | Continue reading
Luminale 2020 si se llevará a cabo a pesar de que Light + Building se hya pospuesto para septiembre | Continue reading
This week, on the 30-minute tech show that takes up just 1/48th of your day, Dan and Mikah are joined by special guests Jeff Carlson and Shelly Brisbin to discuss the debate over standardizing smartphone charging ports, how we feel about HomeKit Secure Vi... | Continue reading
Cats who suffered burns and smoke inhalation in recent California wildfires also had a high incidence of heart problems, according to a new study from researchers at the University of California, Davis, Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital. The study represents the first publishe … | Continue reading
Some molecules, including most of the ones in living organisms, have shapes that can exist in two different mirror-image versions. The right- and left-handed versions can sometimes have different properties, such that only one of them carries out the molecule's functions. Now, a … | Continue reading
I find it a little difficult to believe that expertise is 'merely' pattern-matching. And yet it seems to have resulted in the some of my best learning outcomes over the past year. A look at my scepticism, in the context of several ideas we've covered in this blog. | Continue reading
Dear community, Apache CouchDB® 3.0.0 has been released and is available for download. Apache CouchDB® lets you access your data where you need it. The Couch Replication Protocol is implemented in … | Continue reading
A new study examines how color evolved in one of the flashiest groups of parrots—Australasian lorikeets—finding that different plumage patches on the birds evolved independently through time. The study, published this week in the journal BMC Evolutionary Biology, helps explain wh … | Continue reading
There’s a lot of fear, uncertainty and doubt when it comes to stock options, and I’d like to try and clear some of that up today. As an engineer, you may be more interested in getting on with your job than compensation. However, if you’re working... | Continue reading
RC Car Body Paint Schemes Basic Build Part 2 The information below may not give you the best results, it is therefore only intended ... | Continue reading
Last week, Kickstarter employees voted to unionize, creating the tech industry’s first union of white-collar workers. Responses were mixed, to say the least. Presidential candidates applauded the move. Venture capitalists, on the other hand, tended to be | Continue reading
Why communicating public health risk during an epidemic is so challenging | Continue reading
An MVP is not just a product with half of the features chopped out, or a way to get the product out the door a little earlier. | Continue reading
‘People You May Know’ helped the social media giant grow exponentially. One man made it happen. An exclusive excerpt from ‘Facebook: The… | Continue reading
/PRNewswire/ -- Today, RepairSmith announces the acquisition of CarDash, a service-based startup with a shared mission to bring car owners convenient car... | Continue reading
The most counterintuitive secret about startups is that it’s often easier to succeed with a hard startup than an easy one. A hard startup requires a lot more money, time, coordination, or... | Continue reading
The No Time to Die runtime has seemingly been revealed, and it's pretty darn long. | Continue reading
All of my childhood memories involving Etch a Sketch end the same way. I’d fiddle with the knobs and then after a few minutes, shake it in frustration, erasing all evidence of my hideous “art.” The ionic toy is marking its 60th anniversary this year with a few limited edition lau … | Continue reading
The Senate bathing facility, pictured here, boasted of tubs carved from single blocks of Carrara marble. Minton tiles covered the floor. In 1869 a city newspaper published a description of one of these luxurious bathing chambers, noting that ‘when not in use, it is always open to … | Continue reading
Fika Studio is a fullstack development studio. Building beautiful web applications, prototypes & tools for startups. | Continue reading
Seawater is more than just saltwater. The ocean is a veritable soup of chemicals. | Continue reading
Officially, those table things that come in your pizza delivery are pizza savers, to prevent your cheese from sticking to the box. But everyone | Continue reading
For the first time, a team of scientists at the University of Central Florida has created functional nanomaterials with hollow interiors that can be used to create highly sensitive biosensors for early cancer detection. | Continue reading
The National Transportation Safety Board has called out Apple over the fact it doesn't have a policy banning the use of mobile devices whilst driving after one of its engineers was killed in a crash in 2018. | Continue reading
Kr00k – formally known as CVE-2019-15126 – is a vulnerability in Broadcom and Cypress Wi-Fi chips that allows unauthorized decryption of some WPA2-encrypted traffic. | Continue reading
Suddenly, the market for programmatic taxi-top advertising is accelerating. | Continue reading
University of Warwick researchers can now explain why some water droplets bounce like a beach ball off surfaces, without ever actually touching them. Now the design and engineering of future droplet technologies can be made more precise and efficient. | Continue reading
Marcus Hutter is a senior research scientist at DeepMind and professor at Australian National University. Throughout his career of research, including with Jürgen Schmidhuber and Shane Legg, he has proposed a lot of interesting ideas in and around the field of artificial general … | Continue reading
Also: Elisabeth Moss. | Continue reading
The new Saint Maud trailer is ready to celebrate (?) Ash Wednesday. | Continue reading
This is a public issue aimed at Discord’s Linux client. | Continue reading
- By Nuadox Crew - Researchers from Trinity College Dublin have made a discovery that may eventually lead to improved therapeutic options for people living with asthma. The researchers have uncovered... | Continue reading
Earth’s atmosphere thankfully provides air for us to breathe, but when trying to study interesting objects in space it causes all sorts of problems, writes Chanda Prescod-Weinstein | Continue reading
Encouraging the growth of benign bacteria is a tasty way to preserve vegetables, such as with this easy kimchi recipe, says Sam Wong | Continue reading
Lose your bearings in an unfamiliar landscape and fear shreds your navigational brain. But studies are now revealing the common mistakes lost people make, helping rescue teams to find them before it’s too late | Continue reading
Electric scooters are a nightmare. Rented by the minute, they clog up pavements and are an ungainly eyesore, but we still need them, says Donna Lu | Continue reading
Stress or infection may prompt viruses hidden in our genome to stagger back to life, contributing to some cases of multiple sclerosis, diabetes and schizophrenia | Continue reading