University presidents are scrambling for answers on everything from on-campus housing to revenue-generating sports.

Emergence occurs when there is a conceptual discontinuity between two denoscriptions targeting the same phenomenon. This does not mean that emergence is a purely subjective phenomenon — only th…

A "Dumbo" octopus is photographed at a depth of 7,000m in the Indian Ocean's Java Trench.

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(Reuters) - Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google on Saturday said it has postponed next week’s planned unveiling of the beta version of its latest Android 11 mobile operating system in light of protests and unrest in the United States.

Any new venture is risky. Unfortunately, we have created a set of norms around starting a company that mean it is common for founders not to have skin in the…

Companies that make antibody tests that are seen as key to easing lockdowns say high prices for the blood of recovered Covid-19 patients pose a hurdle to developing the tests.

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Stockpile aimed at shielding key businesses but long-term solution is elusive

By chewing on the problems posed by “extremal” black holes, physicists have exposed a surprising and universal connection between energy and entropy.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Video conferencing provider Zoom (ZM.O) plans to strengthen encryption of video calls hosted by paying clients and institutions such as schools, but not by users of its free consumer accounts, a company official said on Friday.

Since macOS 10.12 there’s a bug in Apple Mail that causes it to randomly become the frontmost application.

Schrodingers Cat was not a real experiment and therefore did not scientifically prove anything. Schrodingers Cat is not even part of any scientific...

The water and energy use of the mist shower is so low that the bathroom could be taken off-grid and off-pipe even in an urban context.

At Dropbox, our Brand Guidelines help us infuse everything we make with identity. From icons to illustration, logos to language, this collection is the foundation for how Dropbox looks, feels, and sounds like Dropbox.

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