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I'm not a mom, but I have a mom. The only video game she ever let me play was Guitar Hero, which was so fun and instantly gratifying that I abandoned the guitar lessons I had been administering to myself via some library...

Constantinos Daskalakis adapts techniques from theoretical computer science to game theory.

One supposed key to fighting Zika virus is by releasing genetically modified mosquitoes to reduce the population of aedes mosquitoes. However, critics suspect that these genetically modified mosquitoes could be responsib...

The physicist Subir Sachdev borrows tools from string theory to understand the puzzling behavior of superconductors --

As if it weren't shocking enough that Apple has an Android app that doesn't try to convince users to switch to iPhones, it has just updated said app with a feature that no iPhone can have. At least technically. Apple Mus...

Yahoo isn’t having the best of times these days particularly since it announced that it was closing five offices and laying off a significant chunk of its workforce. Questions are now being asked about the company’s ...

You really need to be using a password manager, and Dashlane is currently at the top of the heap.

It's not unusual for apps to be taken off a marketplace, even in Google's somewhat more embracing Play Store. But when that app happens to have come from the most prolific Android OEM, the Internet goes somewhat crazy. G...

Sitting for long hours may increase the risk of type 2 diabetes, even though a person works out. Diabetes is still the seventh leading cause of death in the United States.

Faulty airbags are forcing Honda to recall in excess of 2.2m cars, the Japanese automaker has confirmed, as the Takata saga rolls on. The recall will cover both models sporting the Honda badge and its Acura premium divis...

Four new species of deep-sea flatwormlike animals that resemble deflated whoopee cushions and lack complex organs have solved a complicated puzzle about their group's placement on the tree of life, scientists found.

Unlike Facebook, a smartphone can't recognize and tag you in a selfie. A new brain-like chip developed by researchers at MIT could change that. The 168-core prototype chip called Eyeriss will be able to tap into memory t...

Cortex is an easily transportable alternative to cement, in the form of rollable concrete sheets that are activated by water. The post Cement alternative is cheaper, stronger and quicker to install appeared first on Spri...

Legionnaires' disease may be able to spread from one person to another, in rare cases.

New findings from an international collaboration led by Canadian scientists may eventually lead to a theory of how superconductivity initiates at the atomic level, a key step in understanding how to harness the potential...

Brides magazine recently published an article titled “Which Vendors Do You Have to Feed at Your Wedding?” In the piece, wedding planner Sandy Malone gives brides advice on which vendors they’re responsible for feed...

Looping, swirling, whipping magnetic fields - not visible to the naked eye - power and direct titanic explosions off the Sun's surface.

Sambo fish are part of El Salvador's plan to help curb the spread of Zika virus. The fish will be placed in water sources where to eat the larvae of the Aedes mosquito, which transmits Zika and other viruses.

SpaceX plans to ramp up the production and launch of its Falcon 9 rocket this year while introducing its Falcon Heavy rocket and completing a key test of its commercial crew vehicle, the company's president said Feb. 3. ...

Comodo will release an update Wednesday to fix a serious vulnerability in its web browser, which it markets as a way for users to enhance their security. Google engineer Tavis Ormandy found that the company's Chromodo br...

The Internal Revenue Service suffered a "hardware failure" that caused a shutdown of its e-file system.

Apple today updated the official Apple Music app for Android to add support for saving their offline music to an SD card. Unlike iOS devices, majority of Android devices still come with a microSD card slot that makes it ...