All year long as Earth revolves around the sun, it passes through streams of cosmic debris. The resulting meteor showers can light up night skies from dusk to dawn, and if you’re lucky you might be able to catch a glimpse. The next shower you might be able to see is the Geminids. Active from […]
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The patient, a man in his 70s, had abdominal pain serious enough to send him to a VA Pittsburgh Healthcare hospital. Doctors there found the culprit: a gallstone had inflamed his pancreas. Dr. Daniel Hall, a surgeon who met with the patient, explained that pancreatitis can be fairly mild, as in this case, or severe […]
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Hermit crabs face a uniquely competitive real estate market. They need bigger and bigger shells throughout their lives, but can’t grow these homes themselves. So they rely on castoff snail shells, and are constantly on the lookout for better properties entering the market. A study that will be published next month in the journal Physica […]
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Image caption Reeta Chakrabarti analysed election results on television for the BBC For the first time, BBC News published a news story for every constituency that declared election results overnight – all written by a computer. It was the BBC’s biggest test of machine-generated journalism so far. Each of nearly 700 articles – most in […]
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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The creator of Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, Hidetaka Miyazaki (c), said the win was moving Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice was the big winner at this year’s Gaming Awards. Despite criticism for being incredibly hard to complete, it was named game of the year and also won best action/adventure game. […]
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BBC Click’s Paul Carter looks at some of the week’s best technology stories including: Video sharing platform YouTube bans clips that include “malicious insults and veiled threats” to prevent abuse based on race, gender identity or sexuality BioShock, the first-person-shooter game trilogy that has sold more than 33 million units, is getting a fourth installment […]
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A government report released Thursday found health insurance companies had combed through patient charts to obtain billions of dollars of additional payments from the federal Medicare program. The report, from the federal inspector general’s office, examined payments billed by insurers for those covered by private Medicare Advantage plans, which are increasingly popular and heavily promoted […]
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Image copyright AWS Image caption Andy Jassy heads up Amazon’s most profitable division Andy Jassy may not be famous like his boss Jeff Bezos, but he runs Amazon Web Services (AWS), perhaps the most important part of the Amazon empire. AWS sells data storage and processing for companies that don’t want the headache of running […]
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A recent article about a highly unconventional experiment involving a man who had received a bone marrow transplant has raised some questions for readers of The New York Times. Four years after the lifesaving procedure, all the DNA in the patient’s semen had been replaced by that of his donor. This came as a surprise […]
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SAN FRANCISCO — A landing pad fit for a visitor from NASA has been found on an ancient relic of our solar system. NASA’s Osiris-Rex spacecraft left Earth in 2016, its sights set on an asteroid named Bennu that is as wide as the Empire State Building is tall. The robotic probe’s mission is to […]
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