Too much screen time? New phone controls for you and kids
Apple and Google want to help you spend less time on their phones—really. Like that time you checked Facebook at 3 a.m. Stats don't lie.
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Cities that never sleep: How the modern world blurs the boundaries between night and day
Night has always been a difficult realm for humans: we've had to learn to cope with the cold and the dark to thrive in it. Since the industrial revolution we've found ways to adapt our homes and cities to operate during the ...
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Men enjoy their jobs less than they do housework on average, research says
Men enjoy their jobs less than they do housework, and feeling rushed is one of the reasons, research says.
Physicists revealed spontaneous T-symmetry breaking and exceptional points in cavity QED
Spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) is a physics phenomenon in which a symmetric system produces symmetry-violating states. Recently, extensive study shows that the parity-time symmetry breaking in open systems leads to exceptional ...
Rural and urban communities need different policies to boost economic mobility
The farther away from a city a person is raised, the more likely they are to climb the economic ladder, according to economists, who also found that community characteristics associated with upward mobility actually have ...
US to take longer to mull Sprint merger with T-Mobile
The US Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday told Sprint and T-Mobile it will take more time than first expected to review a proposed merger of the telecommunications firms.
Welcome to the new Meghalayan age – here's how it fits with the rest of Earth's geologic history
Jurassic, Pleistocene, Precambrian. The named times in Earth's history might inspire mental images of dinosaurs, trilobites or other enigmatic animals unlike anything in our modern world.
Old images give new insight on climate change
When studying climate change, it is often a problem that reliable, comparable data go back just a few decades. Long time series are in high demand, especially when it comes to the Earth's cryosphere, consisting of glaciers, ...
Jack Ma to unveil succession plans, not imminent retirement: SCMP
Alibaba co-founder and chairman Jack Ma will unveil a succession plan on Monday, the South China Morning Post reported Sunday, with a company spokesman denying a New York Times report that he would retire that day.
