A team of scientists has discovered a technology that rapidly assesses potentially lifesaving antibiotics by using bacteria in saliva from an East Siberian brown bear.
Lyft’s Bid to Rule the Streets Now Includes Public Transit
Starting with Santa Monica, users can now check transit routes and times in the Lyft app—part of the ride-sharing company’s strategy to move beyond cars.
A mere drop of blood makes skin cells line up
A team of researchers performed experiments on blood-deprived cells that were subsequently exposed to blood serum. Remarkably, all the cells started to move and grow in the same direction as soon as the blood serum was added.
Climate change may drive 10 percent of amphibian species in the Atlantic Rainforest to extinction
Climate conditions forecast for 2050 and 2070 will be potentially lethal to species less adapted to climate variation, according to Brazilian researchers.
Ancient bird bones redate human activity in Madagascar by 6,000 years
Analysis of bones, from what was once the world’s largest bird, has revealed that humans arrived on the tropical island of Madagascar more than 6,000 years earlier than previously thought.
Wild animals were routinely captured and traded in ancient Mesoamerica
New evidence from the Maya city of Copan, in Honduras, reveals that ancient Mesoamericans routinely captured and traded wild animals for symbolic and ritual purposes, according to a new study.
BMW made a self-driving motorcycle
Motorcycle riders die at a rate 28 times higher than that of people behind the wheel of a car. It’s safe to say, then, that motorcycles theoretically stand to benefit from the recent boom in the development of driver assistance technology. There are unique challenges, to be sure, but the application looks more possible than ever, thanks to a new video of a self-driving motorcycle released by BMW Motorrad, the company’s two-wheeler division.
BMW Motorrad says it’s been working on the technology for more than two years, and the effort shows. The short video showcases a BMW motorcycle cruising around a test track with no driver, starting from a stop, leaning into turns, and braking all by itself.
Apple event live blog 2018
We’re live from Cupertino, where we expect new iPhones, a redesigned Apple Watch, and more
WeWork Is About To Start Selling Software
The coworking company just paid $100 million to buy the enterprise software startup Teem—an important milestone in WeWork’s quest to be more than a real estate company.
Those iPhone XS and Apple Watch photos? Here’s how 9to5Mac found them – CNET
Analysis: Logical naming of images and directories made for a clever discovery.