Thanks to its incredible strength, a flake of exotic carbon a few atoms thick has grabbed a speed crown

The WordPress for iOS mobile app has received a significant update with a slew of bug fixes and the following new features:

Video: “record video within the app and then upload it directly to a blog.”
Local Drafts: “save posts locally…

A vacuum contains quantum fluctuations, which can be exploited for a device to generate truly random numbers

The solar system’s “late heavy bombardment” blasted our planet – but might also have delivered our water, and created nurseries for life

Attention Apple-gadget-owning WordPress users! Have you been using the WordPress iOS app for iPhone and iPad? Or maybe you tried it a while back and thought it wasn’t for you? Either way, the new release — v2.6 — will knock your socks off. Why? A bunch of reasons: Video. Record, upload, attach, and play videos [...]

After a lovely weekend in New York I headed straight to Seattle, but not because of the Microsoft announcement like many people thought, but to attend a meeting for Grist, an environmental non-profit (with a sense of humor) whose board of directors I …

A rocky body about three times as massive as Earth has been found in the cosy “habitable zone” around its star – the find suggests habitable planets are common

The transients feature of WordPress is a very useful tool for local data cache when pulling from a remote data source (web service/API).
A typical workflow goes something like this:

Get remote data.
Store it locally as transient data with a timeout.
O…

Rhesus macaque monkeys have shown they can recognise their own reflection in a mirror, suggesting that, like humans and other apes, they are self-aware

Water security threatens humans and wildlife alike, says a global survey – and technology has only tackled half the problem