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Wealthy Hun Warrior’s Tomb Uncovered During Highway Construction in Romania

As workers were constructing a highway in Romania, a Hun warrior’s treasure-filled tomb was unearthed. According to Live Science, the tomb dates all the way to the fifth century AD, when the region was proliferated by the Huns.

Prince-Like Tomb of a Hun Warrior

According to MSN, the tomb has over a hundred artifacts within it. This includes objects covered in gold, weapons, and gemstone-filled jewelry.

The Dark Forest, Aliens, and a Hostile Galaxy

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When we look up into the night skies, all we see is absence and silence, but could our galaxy be a dark forest full of hidden predators waiting to consume us?

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Episode 377a, January 15, 2023
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Ryan Raut: Linking Brain States and Brain Networks through Traveling Waves

Dr. Ryan Raut talks to us about some of his recent work on brain states and brain networks, linking them through synchronized traveling waves:
https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/sciadv.abf2709
https://www.pnas.org/content/117/34/20890.short.

This video is part of the SNAC Chat series organized by Mac Shine, Joe Lizier, Ben Fulcher, and Oliver Cliff (The University of Sydney).

SNAC Chats are less formal and more interactive than the typical seminars hosted by the Sydney Systems Neuroscience and Complexity (SNAC) group.

Scientists just witnessed Titan’s astonishing surface for the first time

The largest moon of Saturn is an unique habitat in our Solar System. It appears to be a world different from our own, with its methane-filled lakes, freezing volcanoes, and underground tunnels.

However, Titan’s first geomorphological map demonstrates that, while its landscape is spectacular and diverse, these elements actually make it surprisingly similar to Earth.

Scientists Devise Laser To Pick Up Alien Signals; Could This Be Key to Discovering Extraterrestrial Life?

Scientists have come up with laser technology that is capable of picking up alien signals from worlds that are far away. According to the Daily Star, the machine that is miniaturized was tailored to fit the specialized space missions of NASA. Such a device has the potential to revolutionize the long-standing search for extraterrestrial intelligence.

ALSO READ: Extraterrestrial Liquid Discovered in Meteorite for the First Time, Holding More Clues of Earth’s Water Origin.

Absolute Value Inequality?

In this video, we will attempt to solve a mixed case concerning #absolute #value #inequality for you, and then the results will be applied to a real domain, with surprising outcomes.
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Driving the era of silicon photonics with integrated lasers

During the past several decades, silicon has undeniably been the crown jewel of the semiconductor industry’s transformation. But with the plateauing of Moore’s Law, the increasing complexity of circuits, and the explosive growth of data-intensive applications, companies need even more innovative ways to compute, store, and move data faster. As a result, scale, speed, and power have become underlying forces to handle both advanced intelligence and computing needs.

Silicon photonics has already earned a stronghold for its impressive performance, power efficiency, and reliability compared to conventional electronic integrated circuits. Overall speed requirements have become fast enough, benefiting the technology’s strengths to transfer data efficiently over ever-shortening distances. Meanwhile, artificial intelligence (AI) is pushing computing to a point where electronic components need to communicate over distances to combine and integrate multiple XPUs (application-specific processing units).