Restoration ecologist Lindsay Chiquoine studies biological soil crusts, a once-overlooked world of highly specialized mosses, lichens and cyanobacteria at a research site near Lake Mead.
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A seven-member, self-funded team consisting of four siblings won the international X Prize tricorder consumer medical competition — yes, inspired by the “Star Trek” gizmo — besting 312 entrants from 38 countries, many with corporate and government backing.
As you enter The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas lobby, you turn yourself over to the hotel’s newest “employee” Rose to guide you through its halls and amenities.
Yahoo Inc. said on Wednesday that it has identified a new system breach that occurred in August 2013 and involved data associated with more than 1 billion user accounts.
Retail giant Amazon.com has made its first drone delivery to an actual customer, dropping off a Fire TV device and a bag of popcorn to a house in the rural English countryside 13 minutes after receiving an online order.
Twitter users can now start streaming live video right from within the service’s mobile apps, courtesy of Periscope.
The U.S. government on Monday finalized long-delayed rules that will require “quiet cars” like electric vehicles and hybrids to emit alert sounds at speeds of up to 18.6 mph to help prevent injuries among pedestrians, cyclists and the blind.
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