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The skull of a phytosaurus, an extinct reptile that lived during the Late Triassic in what is now Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona. Analysis of a rock core led by the University of Texas Institute of Geophysics is helping scientists reconstruct a more accurate timeline of the geological period in …

Microsoft is driving the future of its Office user interface and design today, and it involves some big changes to the traditional ribbon interface. The software giant has been gradually improving Office with its fluid design system for the past few years, adding new icons, a dark mode, and reviewing …

Russia meddled in the 2014 Scottish referendum, and the British government did not request an in-depth assessment of possible Kremlin-led interference in the Brexit vote, according to the British Parliament’s intelligence and security committee. “There have been credible open source comments suggesting that Russia launched influence campaigns in connection with …

Image copyright Reuters The UK will live with coronavirus for many years, and even a vaccine is unlikely to permanently eliminate it, experts warn. Wellcome Trust director Professor Sir Jeremy Farrar told the House of Commons Health Committee that “things will not be done before Christmas.” He went on to …

IMAGE: Harvard researchers discover that extremely cold temperatures slow chemical reactions at slow speeds, giving them a glimpse of how molecules transform and insights into the quantum world. see plus Credit: Ni Lab / Harvard University In a famous parable, three blind men encounter an elephant for the first time. …