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Jun 28, 2020

World’s fastest supercomputer fights coronavirus

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, supercomputing

The newly crowned Fugaku system is analysing droplet spread in offices and public transport.

Jun 28, 2020

Nvidia confirms AMD-powered supercomputer now part of 5-exaflops giant

Posted by in category: supercomputing

Nvidia has built its very own supercomputer, for some reason.

Jun 28, 2020

This is Intel’s not-so-secret weapon against AMD, but will it be too late?

Posted by in category: nanotechnology

Nanowire/nanoribbon is the way to go, Intel head says.

Jun 28, 2020

Check out this Crew Dragon Photo Snapped During a Spacewalk

Posted by in category: space travel

NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy on Saturday tweeted a cool shot showing SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft docked with the International Space Station (ISS). The capsule, seen to the right of the picture, looks tiny alongside the enormous space station, but its interior is actually large enough for a human to perform something close to a somersault.

Cassidy captured the image during Friday’s spacewalk with fellow astronaut Bob Behnken. The outing involved ongoing work to upgrade power systems on the space station, swapping old nickel-hydrogen batteries for new lithium-ion batteries. The batteries store power gathered from the station’s main solar arrays and the new ones will provide an improved and more efficient power capacity for the orbiting outpost.

Cassidy later tweeted a couple of other shots from the spacewalk, one a “space selfie” and another taken shortly after the pair returned to the inside of the ISS.

Jun 28, 2020

Scientists spot flash of light from colliding black holes. But how?

Posted by in category: cosmology

Scientists think they identified two black holes merging that produced a burst of light.

Jun 28, 2020

Physicists Create New Isotope of Mendelevium

Posted by in category: physics

In an experiment performed at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s 88-inch cyclotron, a team of physicists successfully created a new isotope of the human-made element mendelevium.

Jun 28, 2020

Gorgeous NASA Simulations Show What Sunsets Would Look Like on Other Worlds

Posted by in categories: computing, space

How would the Sun look as it dipped below the horizon on a long (17 hour) day on Uranus? Or what would a late-night sunset on Mars look like, when we finally get there? Thanks to some NASA computer modelling, these scenarios are now a little easier to imagine.

What makes a sunset is the interplay of light from the Sun – which includes all the colours of the rainbow – together with the gases and dust in the atmosphere. The less atmosphere, the less impressive the sunset.

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Jun 28, 2020

A ‘Cure for Heart Disease’? A Single Shot Succeeds in Monkeys

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, genetics

A novel gene-editing experiment seems to have permanently reduced LDL and triglyceride levels in monkeys.

Jun 28, 2020

Spectacular New Images Capture the Space Station Cruise Across the Sun

Posted by in category: space

Moving at eight kilometers (five miles) per second, the International Space Station (ISS) circles our planet every 90 minutes. In a 24-hour period, crew members on the ISS experience 16 sunrises and sunsets. Despite how often the station passes directly between Earth and the Sun, capturing an image of the ISS transiting our nearest star is rare.

On June 24, 2020, NASA photographer Joel Kowsky captured such an occurrence from Fredericksburg, Virginia. The image above is a composite, made from six frames, and shows the ISS in silhouette as it moved from right to left across the solar disk while orbiting 400 kilometers (250 miles) above Earth.

The image below shows the position of the ISS in its orbit as Kowsky snapped his photos at approximately 1:15 p.m. U.S. Eastern Daylight Time. The transit lasted approximately 0.54 seconds and was captured while his camera was shooting at 10 frames per second. Watch a video of the transit below.

Jun 28, 2020

Happy birthday to the World most important Entrepreneur ( Olorogun Elon Musk)

Posted by in categories: education, Elon Musk, life extension, robotics/AI

Happy birthday to the World most important Entrepreneur (Olorogun Elon Musk). We at the Ogba Educational Clinic and Artificial intelligence Hub celebrate and wish to immortalize you by Setting up a club after you (The Elon Musk Club). This is in line with our vision to create small Elon’s that would eventually outdo you from Africa.