In a paper published in the journal Nature, the team of researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qujing Normal University, and the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom write that the new species Fanjingshania renovatais (F. renovata for short) has a body is similar to a spiny acanthodian. They lie somewhere between the class chondrichthyans (modern sharks and rays) and the group osteichthyans (bony fish). They lived in the the Paleozoic period, and F....

The Fitbit Blaze will be available for customers in March 2016 at a starting price of $199.95, but we got the opportunity to check out the device for ourselves at the Las Vegas Convention Center. Watch our video to see if this new fitness-focused smartwatch could be for you. Follow all of our coverage from CES 2016, the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, full of weird and wonderful gadgets from around the world....

We’ve all got our reasons for neglecting our pile. Maybe you’re not quite sure how to efficiently carry out some of those fixes. Or you can never quite make them look as good as you’d like. Maybe you’re waiting for the pile to get big enough to justify a trip to the dry cleaners, where you’ll pay someone to do them for you. You want to be able to do them yourself but you’re a little hesitant, and you especially don’t want to waste a bunch of time....

It shouldn’t be, though. The Framework Laptop—a new repairable, upgradable productivity notebook—is designed specifically for people who want to extend the lives of their laptops with upgrades and repairs. It’s slim and powerful enough for most daily computing at work and at home. More importantly, its customizability and forward-thinking design make it incredibly versatile and (hopefully) long-lasting. You’ll still need to be comfortable working with computer parts, but its combination of user-friendly engineering and practical how-to guides make everything from upgrading memory to swapping out a broken display possible without buying a new PC, or even turning to a repair shop....

The lines come sealed in packages with a five-year shelf life. Once on the pole, the line lasts 10-12 months without any reduction in strength. The product is available in 4-, 6-, 8-, 10-, and 12-pound tests in 210-yard spools ($16) with larger sizes in the works. It looks, feels, and performs like a standard line. Along with the environmental benefits, Bioline claims excellent knot strength and abrasion resistance. Unlike standard monofilaments, Bioline doesn’t absorb water, ensuring that its properties remain the same during a long day of fishing....

The most common type of muscle twitches are “fasciculations.” Fasciculations can occur in any muscle in the body, but, says Drachman, they tend to occur most noticeably in the limbs and the eyelids. Why Is My Eyelid Twitching? Fasciculations are the result of some kind of irritability of the nerve fibers. Because fasciculations are benign, they haven’t been studied particularly deeply. (But, not all involuntary muscle twitches are fasciculations–more on that later....

Well, it’s pretty close to what it sounds like: It’s a spray or pill with an active ingredient, IGF-1, extracted from deer antlers. Christopher Key, one person in the two-person company SWATS (Sports With Alternatives To Steroids), which sells the spray and pills, gave this quote in the Sports Illustrated report: “You’re familiar with HGH, correct?” asked Key, referring to human growth hormone. “It’s converted in the liver to IGF-1....

With the right know-how, you can have the newest JWST images sent directly to your phone and inbox, or whatever device you choose, because setting up these alerts is a heck of a lot easier than checking a bunch of websites whenever you remember. Follow the JWST Flickr page Like Instagram, but giving off “older sibling” vibes, Flickr is a useful place to find and download high-quality images of whatever the JWST sees....

It may not be as labor-intensive as, say, re-painting an entire room or immersing in woodwork, but it sure does keep both your hands and mind busy. If you don’t consider yourself a techie, the idea of putting together a whole computer may turn you off. Luckily, the CrowPi2 All-in-1 Raspberry Pi and STEM Learning Platform (Basic Kit) pretty much has everything you need to experiment with software and hardware, and for a limited time, you can get it on sale....

As discovered by Mike Murphy of Quartz, the patent filed yesterday is for a truck with a bunch of lockers on its back, each with a unique identifier. The car drives to the delivery location, and then the customer presumably goes out, finds his or her locker, and unlocks it with a pin code. Then the truck continues on autonomously, delivering more packages to more people. One appealing alternative by a company called Workhorse takes the drone delivery concept, and puts it on a truck....

We can’t really call this a griddle—it does everything. This Cuisinart device does, of course, have excellent griddle plates that will cook your french toast at an even temperature. Just flip the plates over and suddenly you have a grill. Use it open-face or close it up and now you have a panini machine. The sturdy handle will allow you to press your sandwich to perfection. The simple knobs allow you to control the temperature easily, and little red and green lights will let you know when the machine is heated....

OQO’s latest model, the 2+, impresses with many features. Chief among them: a gorgeous five-inch OLED display–which provides a million-to-one contrast ratio, says OQO, and up to 110 percent of the NTSC color gamut (even most full-sized notebooks screens are well below 100 percent of NTSC colors). And while OLED is not known for longevity, OQO says they expect the screen to lose only 20 percent of its brightness after 8,000 hours....

The data does not support that assumption. This data comes from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the infographic was made by the Sierra Club.

When users visit sites through Google servers, the relevant topic will be added to a list of their interests, with Topics selecting six themes per user each week. The collection will be refreshed every three weeks. When users visit a website, Topics will provide three of those interests—one from each of the weeks—to the site and its advertising partners. Google will exclude what it calls “sensitive categories,” like gender and race, and says this system will provide “meaningful transparency and control....

It’s important to know why Guinness needs to be filtered in the first place. During the beer’s fermentation, yeast gobbles up its starchy sugar source (all beers use barley for this, though a few add wheat as well) to carbonate the beer and create alcohol. But after the yeast has done its job, most beers have some remaining polyphenols, micronutrients left over from the barley or hops, which can make the beer look cloudy or turbid....

Today, most women I know think of menopause as a medical problem, to be endured stoically or managed with drugs. Thousands of books offering medical advice on menopause are available, their prescriptions confusing and conflicting at best, and sometimes downright misleading. This book is not one of them. Menopause only became a subject of medical interest in Europe in the eighteenth century, and its place in modern medicine rests on that recent foundation....

“The threat posed by sea mines is constantly evolving,” said Simon Bollom, CEO of the UK’s Defence Equipment and Support Board, in a statement. To meet this changing threat, the Royal Navy is acquiring a total of nine robotic vehicles, equipped with synthetic aperture sonar and advanced software. The robots, known as Medium Autonomous Underwater Vessels once in service, are based on Atlas Elektronik’s SeaCat, a modular robot with a torpedo-shaped body and a range of sensors and systems it can mount....

Most of a volcano’s activity happens below the surface—but we can still learn so much by collecting samples from the lava that emerges. It comes out at around 1800°F; you might stand a yard away and feel fine, but inch any closer, and the heat overwhelms you. Once, as I stood at the edge of a crater at Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano, my camera started melting. As soon as I took a few steps back, everything cooled off—the camera still worked!...

Over the decades, the manufacturing of paper products has become more sustainable, and there are still even more innovations on the horizon. In some cases, classic paper products like cardboard boxes and tissues don’t even need trees. These products used are generally made from virgin fibers, recycled fibers, or a mix of both. Virgin fibers come from fresh wood cut down specifically for the purpose of making new paper and pose the largest environmental risk....

Understand the ground rules We’re not trying to break any raptor-lovers’ hearts, but there are certain conditions that will never attract owls. If you live in an urban high-rise, a bustling suburb, or have a yard that’s more concrete than foliage, your property isn’t suitable for a feathered visitor. Similarly, you should forgo these tips if you live near a busy road, a construction site, or an industrial area where cars and other machinery are common: the last thing you want is to coax owls closer to places where they’ll be susceptible to collisions or injuries from human infrastructure....