Alexa, who? Two of the country’s biggest companies, Google and Walmart, are teaming up to mount a challenge against their common foe — Amazon. Beginning in late September, Walmart shoppers will be able to do their shopping via the Google Home virtual assistant. All they’ll need to do is link […]
Daily Archives: August 23, 2017
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Blizzard’s team-based, multiplayer, first-person-shooter Overwatch debuted way back in May 2016, but there’s been no shortage of world-building since its launch. On Wednesday at Gamescom, Blizzard debuted the backstory for Mei, a character who uses weather-altering devices to slow opponents, with an animated short to show how she came to […]
Workers covered a statue of Robert E. Lee in Charlottesville, Virginia, with a black tarp on Wednesday afternoon in a symbol of mourning for the woman who was killed after a white nationalist rally earlier this month. A small crowd cheered as crews covered the statue of the Confederate general […]
Researchers are testing what urine and other molecules can be turned into to help astronauts on a mission to Mars. Watch TV shows, movies and more on Yahoo View, available now on iOS and Android. About Newsy Newsy: Newsy filters out the hype to deliver a fresh take on U.S. […]
A step in the right directionFunctional and Applied Biomechanics Section, Rehabilitation Medicine Dept, National Institutes of Health Clinical Center By Timothy Revell If you are a child with the most common childhood physical disability, cerebral palsy, there is only a 50 per cent chance that you will still be able […]
Arsenic-contaminated groundwater may threaten the health of 50 to 60 million people in Pakistan. This is shown by a study in which data from 1,200 groundwater samples was analyzed and combined with hydrological parameters to generate a hazard map. This reveals for the first time the full extent of the […]
A new study concludes that conserving old-growth tropical rainforest is ‘highly recommended’ to prevent new outbreaks of viral and parasitic mosquito-borne diseases.
Scientists have found X-rays bursting out of supernovas for the first time, an unexpected discovery that could change the way astronomers think about these space explosions. The X-rays were coming from a certain kind of supernova, called type Ia (one-a). In that sort of thermonuclear explosion, a white dwarf that […]