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Stephen Quake's laboratory at Stanford University looks like biology's version of Thomas Edison's famous New Jersey workshop. Roll-down curtains cast shadows across odd devices buzzing and clicking in the aisles.

You half expect to find Quake, author of 135 patents and rarely seen wearing anything other than a faded polo shirt, sleeping on one of the benches, just as the Wizard of Menlo Park was known to.

In September, Quake was named co-president of the BioHub... Читать дальше...

When Apple announced its AirPods in September, the company said the wireless earbuds would launch in October. Now that it’s November, it turns out the AirPods have been not just delayed, but possibly delayed until 2017.

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. — Coach Mike Zimmer is recovering from what the Minnesota Vikings have called a “minor medical procedure” performed the morning after the team’s loss at Chicago. Zimmer’s regular day-after-game news conference was canceled on Tuesday. The Vikings said Zimmer would be available to the media on Wednesday at his regularly scheduled time.

Main image:  ON OCTOBER 19th China reported that its economy grew by 6.7% in the third quarter. It would have been an unsurprising, reassuring headline, except that China had reported exactly the same figure for the previous quarter—and for the quarter before that. This freakish consistency invited the scorn of China’s many “data doubters”, who have long argued that it fudges its figures. China has expanded at the same pace from one quarter to the next on numerous occasions.

According to UN secretary-general’s office, an internal investigator’s report has concluded that the UN peacekeeping mission in South Sudan failed to respond adequately to a July bomb attack on civilians at a hotel in the country’s capital.

Noor Salman, who was married to Omar Mateen, says his rampage at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Fla., has left her shattered. “He has hurt a lot of people,” she says.

Moyes will not be on the bench against Bournemouth this weekend.

Nonprofits will fund Boston Globe’s classical music critic The groups — the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, the Rubin Institute for Music Criticism, and the Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation — will help the Globe pay for Zoe Madonna to be a music critic at the newspaper for 10 months, beginning Monday. The arrangement, which could expand to other papers if it is successful, is seen as a potential way to halt the erosion of classical music criticism in America, where many magazines and newspapers no longer employ classical critics and... Читать дальше...

His hit on Bills safety Aaron Williams cost Dolphins wide receiver Jarvis Landry a $24,309 fine last week. It also cost Williams the season. The Bills put Williams on injured reserve, to clear the roster spot needed to sign Percy Harvin Tuesday. The 26-year-old Williams suffered his second serious neck injury in as many seasons…

UNITED NATIONS — Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon fired the commander of the peacekeeping force in South Sudan on Tuesday after an independent investigation sharply criticized the military response to deadly attacks in July on a U.N. compound housing 27,000 displaced people. U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric announced the dismissal of Kenyan Lt. Gen. Johnson Mogoa Kimani Ondieki

Story by Kendall Jones, via Washington Beer Blog. Story by Kendall Jones, via Washington Beer Blog. There’s a lot going on at Schooner Exact Brewing these days. To The post Beer releases, expansion and other news from Schooner Exact Brewing appeared first on Washington Beer Blog.

Pope Francis, who has repeatedly called on Europe to open its doors to more migrants, stated Tuesday that governments have the right to carefully assess their capacity to effectively integrate those arriving from abroad. "I think that, in theory, you can't close your heart to a refugee," the pope said while flying back from a two-day visit to Sweden. Last year Europe saw an influx of more than one million asylum seekers in the worst such crisis since World War II.

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. (AP) — Coach Mike Zimmer is recovering from what the Minnesota Vikings have called a "minor medical procedure" performed the morning after the team's loss at Chicago.

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. (AP) — Coach Mike Zimmer is recovering from what the Minnesota Vikings have called a "minor medical procedure" performed the morning after the team's loss at Chicago.

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. (AP) — Coach Mike Zimmer is recovering from what the Minnesota Vikings have called a "minor medical procedure" performed the morning after the team's loss at Chicago.

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. (AP) — Coach Mike Zimmer is recovering from what the Minnesota Vikings have called a "minor medical procedure" performed the morning after the team's loss at Chicago.

Feminist historian Blanche Wiesen Cook published the first volume of her biography of Roosevelt in 1992. Critic Maureen Corrigan says the newly released final volume is exhausting and exhilarating.

The Bills have made wide receiver Percy Harvin’s return to the NFL and the team official with a statement announcing his signing on Tuesday afternoon. Harvin retired in April after playing five games for the Bills last year. Injuries were the reason for his limited appearances in 2015 and have limited him to 28 games…

A rowing crew is mapping one of Earth's longest rivers for Google Street View

But here’s what to do if it happens

Pope Francis says he believes the Roman Catholic Church's ban on women becoming priests is forever and will never be changed.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Cody Zeller said he’s always considered himself a simple kid from Indiana. Well, now he’s a simple rich kid from Indiana. The 7-foot Zeller signed a four-year, $56 million deal with the Charlotte Hornets. The four-year deal was announced Tuesday and Zeller himself confirmed the overall value. “You know, $56 million is

Donald Trump again vows to repeal and replace Obamacare, this time in a policy-laden speech following several days of gleefully endorsing the FBI director's controversial letter to Congress.

Two dogs have been killed and 43 stray animals brought into the Kloof and Highway SPCA in the wake of weekend fireworks celebrations.