VLC 3.0 Offers 360-Degree Video Playback As Media Player Incorporates Giroptic Technology
Version 3.0 of the popular media player uses technology from Giroptic, and the company rolled out a technical preview Saturday.
OPEC Meeting: Oil Prices Fall As Saudi Arabia-Russia Meet Is Canceled
The world’s two largest crude oil producers were scheduled to meet Monday, ahead of the closely-watched OPEC meeting Wednesday.
ExoMars Mission To Find Life On Mars Needs Another $430 Million To Make Its 2020 Journey
The ESA mission to find evidence of past or present life on the red planet needs another $430 million to make its planned journey in 2020.
Farming Timeline: Ants Were Growing Food Long Before Humans
Human agriculture is understood to be only about 10,000 years old, while species of ants found in Fiji have been at it for over 3 million years.
Facts About The Life Of Fidel Castro, Cuban Strongman
The Cuban revolutionary and long-time leader died Nov. 25, 2016, at the age of 90.
Space Food: NASA Developing High Calorie Bars For Deep Space Missions
Food scientists at NASA are working on developing food bars to be eaten by the crews aboard the Orion spacecraft that will travel beyond the moon.
Mending Broken Hearts: Tissue Regeneration In Mammals Holds Promise For Heart Disease Cure
Researchers used cells from zebrafish to regenerate heart tissue in mice, a development that could help find cures for heart diseases in humans.
Time ‘Person Of The Year’ Poll: India’s Narendra Modi Leads Julian Assange, Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin
The annual readers’ poll is currently led by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi who has overtaken WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
Egypt Ancient History: 7,300-Year-Old City Found In New Excavation Along The Nile
A cemetery and a residential city were discovered by archaeologists in a dig close to existing historical sites along the river Nile.
Antarctic Sea Ice: 14% Loss Over 100 Years; Pine Island Glacier Melt Began Over 70 Years Ago
The sea ice around the South Pole has mostly grown in the last 30 years even as the polar ice cap in the Arctic has been shrinking fast.
Coconut Crab Claws Exert More Force Than Amateur Boxers
The force with which these big crustaceans can pinch is far greater than most amateur boxers can muster in their punches.
Hurricane Risk To Northeast US Increasing Due To Climate Change, Weather Patterns Of 5 Centuries Show
A study reconstructed western Caribbean tropical cyclone activity over the past 450 years and found it shifting northward due to human-induced climate change.
Why Is Dead Sea Dying? World’s Lowest Point Drying Out At Alarming Rate
The famed salt lake, the lowest point on Earth’s surface, is drying out and its level is falling by about 3 feet every year.
Water On Mars: Ice Deposit Found Underground On Red Planet Enough To Fill Lake Superior
A subsurface water ice body found under the mid-northern hemisphere of the red planet has enough water to fill up Lake Superior, largest of the Great Lakes.
Quantum Computing: Microsoft ‘Ready To Go From Research To Engineering’
The technology company is “doubling down on its commitment to the tantalizing field of quantum computing” and wants to create “a scalable quantum computer.”
Donald Trump’s Policies Will Worsen Climate Change, China Holds Steady On Commitments
As concerns loom large that President-elect Donald Trump will pull the U.S. out of the Paris Agreement, China is sticking fast to its commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
NASA Studying Fire In Space With Saffire-II Safety Experiments
NASA is setting different materials on fire in a cargo ship orbiting Earth so that fire safety measures can be built into future deep space habitation capabilities.
Talking To Aliens? ‘Arrival’ Makes It Look Simpler Than It Will Be
We have been trying to reach out to aliens and listen for their signals for decades now, and the approach is grounded more in mathematics than linguistics.
Global Warming Melts Polar Ice To Record Lows As Temperatures Rise Under Climate Change Effects
The six-month night has set in over the Arctic while the Antarctic has entered its half-year summer.
Symantec Corp. (SYMC) Buying LifeLock Inc. (LOCK) For $2.3 Billion
The cybersecurity company hopes the purchase will shore up finances as sales of Norton, its most recognized brand, decline.
Tesla Motors (TSLA) Model S Price Rise While Elon Musk Says Trump Presidency Won’t Affect Company’s Finances
The price hike comes even as CEO Elon Musk said President-elect Donald Trump’s proposal to take away federal tax credits for electric vehicles won’t hurt his company.
After LinkedIn, Are Facebook, Twitter Next? Russia Could Ban More Services With Data Storage Clause
Citing a domestic regulation that mandates social networking platforms store data of Russian users on local servers, the country began blocking LinkedIn on Thursday.
Climate Change: Will Bird Poop Save The World As Arctic Winters Get Warmer?
Temperatures in the Arctic, which is going through the polar night, are about 36 degrees Fahrenheit higher than the mean temperature for this time of the year.
Addiction In America: Drug, Alcohol Abuse Cost $442 Billion A Year
A report, released by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, showed that more than one of every seven Americans had misused alcohol or some drug in the past year.
Cryogenic Freezing: Terminally Ill Teenager’s Body Preserved After Court Case
The preservation procedure is available in the United States and Russia, though there is no certainty that a person so frozen can ever be revived again.
Giving Up Sex To Not Be Hacked? 43% American Millennials Say Yes, Survey Finds
A survey of over 2,000 U.S. adults found that a large number of them were willing to abstain from sex for a year if it meant their online lives would never be hacked.
Cybercrime Cost $126 Billion, Affected 689 Million People In 2015
Over $20 billion of that amount came from the U.S., where close to 40 percent of the population was affected by online crime during the year.
A Perfect Circle: Distant Star Is Roundest Object Seen In Space
The rotation of stars creates centrifugal force, which tends to flatten them from the poles and out of their spherical symmetry.
SpaceX Plans Satellite Network For Global Internet Coverage
The world’s first private commercial space launch company filed an application with the Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday.
Tesla Motors (TSLA) Model S P100D Easter Egg Update Will Make Self-Driving Car Even Faster
The Easter egg update for the P100D battery that rolls out in December will improve the acceleration of what is already the world’s fastest car.