Highly Chirped Laser Pulses Defy “Conventional Wisdom”
An illustration of the optical fiber Kerr resonator, which Rochester researchers used with a spectral filter to create highly chirped…
The 27.5-million-year cycle of geological activity
Credit: New York University Geologic activity on Earth appears to follow a 27.5-million-year cycle, giving the planet a ‘pulse,’ according…
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Explosive snowflakes Tiny uranium crystals in the cores of white dwarf stars could trigger nuclear reactions that blow the stars…
Inside the race to rescue clues to Earth’s past from melting glaciers
Glacial ice records all manner of precious information about the planet’s environmental history, but it is melting fast. The Ice…
Intel Iris Xe DG1 gaming performance revealed in tests
In a nutshell: We already knew that Intel’s Xe DG1 graphics card isn’t going to be competing with the latest…
Freak Coincidence: The Curious Incident of Swarm and Sprites in the Night-Time
Sprites seen over the Czech Republic and detected by Swarm. This photograph of lightning sprites was taken from Czech Republic…
New cause found for intensification of oyster disease
Panel A shows the original form of the Dermo parasite Perkinsus marinus, with black arrows indicating typical Dermo cells and…
Most planets on tilted orbits pass over the poles of their suns
Earth is on an orderly path around the sun, orbiting in nearly the same plane as our star’s equator. In…
3200-year-old shrine in Turkey may be an ancient view of the cosmos
By Michael Marshall The ancient Hittite site of Yazılıkaya ullstein bild via Getty Images A shrine built more than 3000…
CPU and GPU Availability and Pricing Update: June 2021
Here’s our monthly update on the computer hardware market to see what the current trends are for CPU and GPU…
NASA Struggles to Fix Failure of Hubble Space Telescope’s 1980s Computer
By NASA June 19, 2021 The Hubble Space Telescope was launched by the space shuttle Discovery on April 24, 1990.…
Proliferation of electric vehicles based on high-performance, low-cost sodium-ion battery
Graphical abstract. Credit: Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) Various automobile companies are preparing to shift from internal combustion…
