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There is a flare of the highest order on the Sun

Solar activity entered the growth phase a week earlier than forecast.


На Солнце около половины шестого утра по московскому времени зарегистрирована вспышка высшего балла X. Событий такой мощности не было с 22 февраля, когда произошла пока наиболее сильная вспышка текущего солнечного цикла уровня X6.3. По предварительным данным вспышка спровоцировала выбросы солнечной плазмы в космос, но точное их направление пока не понятно. В поле зрения коронографов вещество появится только примерно через час. Возможность движения облаков плазмы в сторону Земли, предварительно, исключительно высокая — активный центр, где произошел взрыв, расположен прямо напротив Земли. Оценка по наличию выброса и геомагнитный прогноз будут выданы в течение 2 часов.

The gene “degrees of kevin bacon” (dokb) regulates a social network behaviour in Drosophila melanogaster

A paper in Nature Communications describes a gene that regulates the structure of social networks in fruit flies, which is named after the actor Kevin Bacon. Read the paper:


The structure of a social network is thought to be heritable in many animals, including humans. Here, Rooke and colleagues identify a gene, which they name “degrees of kevin bacon (dokb)”, that is expressed in the central nervous system of Drosophila melanogaster and regulates the structure of social networks.

Scientists discover an ocean below the Earth’s surface | Gravitas Highlights

Scientists have discovered an ocean about 700 kilometres below the Earth’s surface. It is triple the size of all the oceans on the Earth’s surface combined.

#ocean #earth #gravitas.

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Sam Altman says we probably won’t need a new device for the AI future

Sam Altman isn’t sure the future of artificial intelligence requires new hardware.

Despite a flurry of new devices hitting the market, the OpenAI CEO told MIT Technology Review we might not need to buy separate devices to engage with AI in the future.

“I don’t think it will require a new piece of hardware,” he said while in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for events hosted by Harvard University and the venture-capital firm Xfund.

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