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Using the world’s smallest computer, University of Michigan (UM) researchers were able to figure out why one species of snail was able to survive a situation that pushed more than 50 others into extinction.

“We were able to get data that nobody had been able to obtain,” researcher David Blaauw said in a press release. “And that’s because we had a tiny computing system that was small enough to stick on a snail.”

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Between tens of thousands of new satellites and the increasing weaponization of space, a chain reaction may soon reach a tipping point.

According to this site there are 100 billion blackholes in our universe.

Information, virtual journeys, and simulations about black holes from the Space Telescope Science Institute.

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The three-body problem, which has plagued science since the days of Isaac Newton, is closer to being solved, scientists say.

New map reveals 25,000 supermassive black holes in the night sky.

A new sky map reveals 25,000 supermassive black holes in the night sky using 256 hours of radio data.

I found this super interesting. I never considered the idea that I may have lived this exact life an infinite amount of times already. I find stuff like this to be brain candy, and this article is particularly well-written in my opinion. Did The Big Bang Arise Out of Nothing?

“The last star will slowly cool and fade away. With its passing, the Universe will become once more a void, without light or life or meaning.”

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The photonic future of cpu’s and gpu’s — lightelligence PACE.

The new Photonics Hardware company Lightelligence has just announced their Photonics AI Accelerator card PACE that’s eventually supposed to be put into consumers personal computers in conjunction with their regular CPU’s and GPU’s. The crazy speed and efficiency of those Photonic chips are supposed to make Artificial Intelligence model training much faster and keep the heat down.
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00:00 A New Hardware Maker.
02:13 Why are Photonic Chips better?
04:23 How do Photonic Chips work?
06:45 The Future of Photonic Computing.
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The combination of techniques is now delivering highly polarized proton beams to collide inside STAR.

STAR upgrades.

When they analyze results from these collisions, STAR physicists will be looking for differences in the numbers of certain particles emerging to the left and right of the polarized protons’ upward pointing direction.

One of the key problems with lithium-ion batteries is that, over time, they do lose some of their battery life. This is why recycling them is so important. But what if there was a way to bring them back to life? And by this, I mean make them as good as new without recycling them. What if you could not only bring them back to life but extend the battery’s life by up to 30%?

Researchers at Stanford University along with the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory may have done just that. No, this isn’t the beginning of a zombie horror apocalypse type of story, but it is a potentially revolutionary breakthrough.

Green Car Congress reports that the researchers might have found a way to bring rechargeable lithium batteries back to life with an increased boost to the range of battery life for both EVs and next-generation electronic devices. The study on the work has been published in Nature.