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Earlier this week, Microsoft made some bold claims about the battery life of its Edge browser, saying that laptops running Edge lasted much longer during video playback and used less energy during normal browsing operations than Chrome and Opera.
Opera, however, disagrees. The company has run its own tests and written up the results: with...
Six medical pioneers were inducted into the newly created Washington Life Science Hall of Fame today, and although some of...
Humans are distinguished from the other living apes in having larger brains and an unusual life history that combines high reproductive output with slow childhood growth and exceptional longevity. This suite of derived traits suggests major changes in energy expenditure and allocation in the human lineage, but direct measures of human and ape metabolism are needed to compare evolved energy strategies among hominoids. Here...
Apple updated its standard MacBook line this morning, adding the latest processor, better batteries, and the rose gold finish option to the 12-inch laptop.
The update comes just over a year after the MacBook was introduced. The new devices feature sixth-generation dual-core Intel...
The SETI Institute is shifting the focus of its search for extraterrestrial intelligence to places that could harbor life that’s not as...
These barrel sponges have one hell of a pedigree. (credit: Albert Kok/Wikimedia)
The earliest chapters in the history of life are in some ways the most interesting, but also the hardest to read. The pages are badly stained and tattered, and the print was terribly small to begin with. You can occasionally trip on a dinosaur...
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A plague of drug violence in Mexico stands to undo gains in life expectancy from the last century, according to new research published in Health Affairs.
Life expectancy crept upward during most of the 20th century, largely thanks to improved access to health care and quality of life. But from 2005 to 2010, the...
