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Quantum money underpinned by the mathematics of knots could be impossible to forge.

The first orbital space launch from British soil is scheduled to take off on Monday.

A modified Boeing 747 airplane known as Cosmic Girl will take off from Spaceport Cornwall in England. Once it reaches 35,000 feet in the air, the converted aircraft will deploy a rocket, called LauncherOne, into space.

The LauncherOne rocket will deliver several payloads into orbit, including Wales’ first satellite and the first ever satellite launched by Oman to observe Earth.

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Jesus Christ of sharks has risen 🙏

A rare event has taken place in the Cala Gonone Aquarium in Sardinia, Italy. A smooth-hound shark gave birth to a baby shark without any male interference in the tank she has been living in for the past ten years with only another smooth-hound female and no males, reports Agenzia Italia. This could prove to be the first and only parthenogenesis example in this specific species of shark, and hence, t he newborn female shark is named Ispera, which means Hope in Sardinian.

While other sharks and rays, including the bonnethead, the blacktip shark, and the zebra shark have previously been observed doing parthenogenesis, smooth-hound sharks, scientifically known as Mustelus mustelus, have never been, as far as scientists know. If confirmed, this event could be a scientific discovery of smooth-hounds’ using parthenogenesis.

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On January 2023, 60 minutes interviewed Paul Ehrlich, the author of the 1968 Population Bomb.

Although I agree with some of the points, like the destruction of habitat, and climate change, and those points indeed need addressing. the overpopulation arguments in the book and the interview have already been proven wrong, repeatedly.

Continue reading “Overpopulation myth — Having kids will not destroy the planet. Perhaps it can even help” »

Despite numerous searches, we have yet to detect dark matter particles.

Princeton Engineering researchers have developed a cost-effective way to use breakfast foods to create a material that can remove salt and microplastics from seawater.

The researchers used egg whites to create an aerogel, a versatile material known for its light weight and porosity. It has a range of uses, including water filtration, energy storage, and sound and thermal insulation. Craig Arnold, the Susan Dod Brown Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and vice dean of innovation at Princeton, leads a lab that focuses on creating new materials, including aerogels, for engineering purposes.

One day, sitting in a faculty meeting, he had an idea.

My first computer had a CPU with 3,510 transistors. We now live in a world where you can get chips with over a trillion transistors.

“This a data centre accelerator that contains 146 billion transistors.”

I checked and the article didn’t include the transistors that made up the L4 cache memory on the chip. The actual total is 1.25 trillion transistors plus another 1.1 trillion capacitors.

Continue reading “AMD just put a whole Zen 4 CPU inside an absolutely massive GPU” »

Sounding like the start of a Jurassic Park scenario, scientists once grew chickens with ‘dinosaur-like’ legs in an aim to prove how evolution works. Thankfully, it’s been a good seven years since then and our planet hasn’t been overtaken by jurassic chicken hybrids… yet.