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The 3-inch-long lump of bone grew precisely where the pectineus muscle is attached to the femur and would have caused the woman severe pain.  (Image credit: Sandra Assis)A rare and gruesome bone growth protruding from a 14th to 19th century woman’s thigh bone mushroomed after she suffered severe trauma, anthropologists in Portugal have found. The...

Apr 10, 2023, 12:00 pm EST | 1 min read Rusya007/Shutterstock.com You can go just about anywhere in the country and if you’re traveling through farmland, one thing will remain consistent—you’ll see a red barn. Red barns are nostalgic, and traditional, and feel like a piece of Americana. But, red barns aren’t just red for...

Justin Duino / How-To Geek Open the content you’d like to share to a nearby device and tap the share icon. Choose “Nearby” from the menu and select a device with “Nearby Share” enabled. You can configure how Nearby Share works from Settings> Google> Devices & Sharing> Nearby Share. iPhones and Macs have a handy...

Hannah Stryker / How-To Geek Another day, another security breach. They can affect pretty much everyone. Now, one has hit popular gaming PC hardware maker MSI. MSI has issued a statement confirming that it fell victim to a security breach stemming from a ransomware attack. In a press release, MSI said, “the affected systems have...

YouTube Premium is the paid subscription that removes ads from YouTube (while still paying the video creator) and adds other features. Google is now updating it with even more functionality. YouTube Premium now includes a new 1080p HD video quality option with a higher bitrate, available on iPhone and iPad and marked as an “experiment”...

When I was younger, I gazed at the stars at night and wondered how many possessed planets like Earth. Being a Star Trek nerd, I couldn’t help but imagine a universe where stars were fecund and planets were everywhere. But not knowing was agony. This story has a happy ending, though: Now we do know—the...

Jeffery DelViscio: You’re listening to Science, Quickly. I’m Jeff DelViscio. Now, we’re not sure about all of you, but for us here on the show, some days we just want to explore. The unknown still exists all around us. And we have the super sweet day job of talking to folks who plumb the depths...

The explosion of a star is a dramatic event, but the remains the star leaves behind can be even more dramatic. A new mid-infrared image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope provides one stunning example. It shows the supernova remnant Cassiopeia A (Cas A), created by a stellar explosion seen from Earth 340 years ago....

Glioblastoma is the most common type of brain tumor in adults. The disease is 100% fatal and there are no cures, making it the most aggressive type of cancer. Such a poor prognosis has motivated researchers and neurosurgeons to understand the biology of tumors with the goal of creating better therapies. Dominique Higgins, MD, PhD,...

If you buy through affiliate links, we may receive a commission, helping support our product testing. Learn more. The iPhone can’t take long exposure photos out of the box. Apple hasn’t added the functionality to the default Camera app. But third-party applications will let you increase exposure and capture time. And they use algorithms to...