Auroras appear on Earth as ghostly displays of colorful light in the night sky, usually near the poles. Our rocky neighbor Mars has auroras too, and NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft just found a new type of Martian aurora that occurs over much of the day side of the Red Planet, where auroras are very hard to […]

We all toil under a tyranny of to-dos. Life can feel like an endless succession of tedious tasks we struggle to complete, and we may cross everything off our to-do lists, but it can still feel like we aren’t achieving what we really want. It’s why we click on every productivity hack that pops up […]

Pakistan has been hit by violence on the day of its general elections – with at least 31 dead in the worst attack. A suicide bomber blew himself up outside a polling station in the city of Quetta. The Islamic State group said it had carried out the attack. Elsewhere, minor blasts and clashes left […]

U.S.-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase now offers a way for customers to purchase retail goods and services using crypto assets, thanks to a new partnership with a digital gift card startup. According to a report from Bloomberg on Wednesday, Coinbase has integrated its wallet services with WeGift, a London-based online gift card platform, and now allows users to […]

Lack of condemnation of rapper’s ‘I Admit’ reveals culture untouched by #MeToo movement R Kelly is sorry. Sorry he’s been accused of mistreating women, sorry parents have, by his telling, pushed their teenage daughters on him, sorry that the Women of Colour wing of the Times Up movement is campaigning for record labels to boycott […]

Canadian company aims make the world’s first beer brewed from cannabis as country prepares to legalise drug in October Scientists in a small laboratory in Ontario, Canada, are testing enzymes and experimenting with fermentation. Their techniques are not new, but their focus is a first. They are developing what is being described as the world’s first beer […]

Venue is a mobile device app highlighting a variety of activities around college campuses; University of Toledo will be the test site. Three Monroe men recently launched an app targeting college students. Reese LaBudie, 19, and Kyle Spare and Banty Hill, both 20, created Venue, an app highlighting a variety of activities around college campuses. […]

It was revealed at E3 last month that Microsoft  was building a cloud gaming system. A report today calls that system Scarlett Cloud and it’s only part of Microsoft’s next-gen Xbox strategy. And it makes a lot of sense, too. According to Thurrott.com, noted site for all things Microsoft, the next Xbox will come in two flavors. One will […]

Our nearest galactic neighbor, the spiral Andromeda galaxy, seems to have a history of cannibalism. New research suggests that Andromeda gobbled up another large galaxy some two billion years ago. Galactic histories are rife with uncertainty and chaos—but how much chaos? New models of galactic formation demonstrate that Andromeda may have undergone one big merger […]

US President Donald Trump has traded military threats and counter-threats with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in an exchange alarmingly similar to the fiery war of words with Kim Jong-un last year. These threats of military force are strategic rather than merely random outbursts by an unpredictable and thin-skinned President. We have seen Mr Trump’s game […]