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Image: AP The U.S. House Committee on Science, Space & Technology has sent a list of recommendations to the Government Accountability Office (GAO), asking that federal research grants be taken away from researchers who engage in sexual harassment and other inappropriate behavior. The congressional committee, chaired by Texas Rep. Lamar Smith, is currently overseeing allegations…

A Dickinsonia fossil.Image: The Australian National University ANU An international team of researchers is claiming to have discovered traces of cholesterol on a fossil of Dickinsonia—a mysterious creature that lived during the primordial Ediacaran Period. This evidence, the researchers say, makes Dickinsonia the oldest known animal in the fossil record. But the discovery is not…

Illustration: geralt (Pixabay) From the minute we’re born, we’re surrounded by a swarm of things not visible to the human eye—dangerous pathogens, harmless microbes, and a wide assortment of chemicals. A new study out of Stanford University seems to illuminate this hidden world, and the results are admittedly both cool and terrifying. Typically, when scientists…

The digital assistant wars are in full swing, and with Google just recently notching the latest victory by finishing Q2 with the top-selling smart speaker in the world, Amazon is revamping its Alexa-powered roster in a very big way. At the start of its presentation, Amazon’s devices head David Limp set the tone by saying…

Photo: kkolosov (Pixabay) The scientific world, like so many industries, is finally reckoning with widespread sexual and gender-based harassment within its ranks. This week, a number of prominent organizations and groups have pledged to take concrete steps to deter and punish scientists who engage in sexual misconduct. But outside observers are still skeptical about how…

Photo: Marco Verch (Flickr) Twitch had a rush of popularity in China last month, but now reports indicate that the live streaming video platform is no longer available in the country. Abacas, a Hong Kong-based China tech news site, noticed that Twitch’s website was not accessible in parts of China as of earlier this week,…

Sony today presented in Russia its new flagship smartphone Xperia XZ3. It was originally announced at the IFA exhibition in 2018 in early September. Review Sony Xperia XZ3 Sony Xperia XZ3 is equipped with a 6-inch OLED display with a resolution of QHD+ (2880 x 1440 pixels), main camera 19 MP and front camera of…

On Friday Apple will start selling its new smartphones, the iPhone XS and XS Max. Meanwhile, various publications started to upload their reviews of new products. In particular, tests have been the iPhone camera XS. Many obzorschiki agreed on the opinion that no matter how good the iPhone camera is XS, but last year’s Pixel…

Roland Quandt (Quandt Roland), editor of the well-known regular leaks of the German resource WinFuture has shared details about the upcoming release of wireless headphones from the company Huawei. The model is called Huawei Freebuds 2 Pro is pretty much similar to wireless headphones AirPod from Apple. But they have one peculiarity. The fact that…