Tag: technology

Sega announced on its Twitter account today that the release of its Mega Drive Mini, a miniature version of its classic console, would be delayed until sometime in 2019. The Mega Drive Mini’s release was originally slated to coincide with the console’s 30th anniversary in Japan, but its global availability was unknown. Now, the company has confirmed that the miniature console will be released as the Mega Drive Mini in Japan and Europe and as the Genesis Mini in North America.

Sega also announced that it was working with a Japanese developer to review the design and software for the console. It’s not clear if this news means that AtGames, the US company behind the poorly reviewed Genesis Flashback console, is still involved in the…

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Scientists have uncovered the role of special chemical ‘tags’ in controlling vital genes involved in early mammalian development.

You’ll be able to control them with the Tradfri app once they launch in 2019.

The chip could reportedly power self-driving cars, smart cities and logistics.

The gaming-focused issue will hit newsstands later this month.

A team finds evidence of collisionless energy transfer occurring in the plasma of Earth’s magnetosphere.

A research team has delineated a complex symbiosis between a ‘parasitic’ noncoding RNA gene and its protein coding ‘host’ gene in human cells. The study reveals how co-evolution of the host gene and parasite gene has shaped a feedback mechanism in which the parasite gene plays a completely new and surprising part as regulator of the host gene protein production. The breakthrough finding opens an entirely new avenue of research in gene expression.

The Empire Strikes Back brought us the TIE bomber—and new physics questions to try to solve.

Captain Marvel used to be a dude. Captain Marvel also used to be Ms. Marvel. It’s comics; it’s complicated.

Opinion: As the work of biologists and computer scientists converge, algorithmic secrets are increasingly found in nature