A father and son team from New York City has been busted for allegedly using the so-called “dark web” to sell potentially deadly fentanyl and oxycodone. Using the vendor name Zane61, Michael Luciano and his son Phillip allegedly set up shop in “a place where some criminals think they can […]
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Physicists have described how observations of gravitational waves limit the possible explanations for the formation of black holes outside of our galaxy; either they are spinning more slowly than black holes in our own galaxy or they spin rapidly but are ‘tumbled around’ with spins randomly oriented to their orbit.
Scientists have now demonstrated that storing data with a class of molecules known as single-molecule magnets is more feasible than previously thought.
Seismologists investigating how Earth forms new continental crust have compiled more than 20 years of seismic data from a wide swath of South America’s Andean Plateau and determined that processes there have produced far more continental rock than previously believed.
Lucas Apa, senior security consultant at cybersecurity company IOActive, handles robots by UBTech and SoftBank Robotics during a demonstration in Singapore August 21, 2017. Picture taken August 21, 2017. REUTERS/Jeremy Wagstaff More By Jeremy Wagstaff SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Researchers who warned half a dozen robot manufacturers in January about nearly […]
If you’re not buying Bitcoin, you’re not keeping up with the Joneses. The American middle class is falling in love with the unregulated cryptocurrency’s skyrocketing value, which hit a record-breaking $4,400 in August, a 600 percent year-over-year increase. There are now more Google searches for Bitcoin than for Beyoncé. It’s […]
LOS ANGELES — Nations that create the vast bulk of the Earth’s greenhouse gases can eliminate carbon emissions — thereby slowing climate change and other damaging consequences — if they move aggressively toward energy systems dominated by solar and wind power, a group of researchers said in a paper released […]