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Oct 13, 2024

Evolution in real time: Scientists predict—and witness—evolution in a 30-year marine snail experiment

Posted by in category: evolution

Snails on a tiny rocky islet evolved before scientists’ eyes. The marine snails were reintroduced after a toxic algal bloom wiped them out from the skerry. While the researchers intentionally brought in a distinct population of the same snail species, these evolved to strikingly resemble the population lost over 30 years prior.

Oct 13, 2024

Integer addition algorithm could reduce energy needs of AI by 95%

Posted by in categories: bitcoin, information science, robotics/AI

A team of engineers at AI inference technology company BitEnergy AI reports a method to reduce the energy needs of AI applications by 95%. The group has published a paper describing their new technique on the arXiv preprint server.

As AI applications have gone mainstream, their use has risen dramatically, leading to a notable rise in energy needs and costs. LLMs such as ChatGPT require a lot of computing power, which in turn means a lot of electricity is needed to run them.

As just one example, ChatGPT now requires roughly 564 MWh daily, or enough to power 18,000 American homes. As the science continues to advance and such apps become more popular, critics have suggested that AI applications might be using around 100 TWh annually in just a few years, on par with Bitcoin mining operations.

Oct 13, 2024

Japanese Scientists Develop a Greener Way To Produce Chemical Building Blocks

Posted by in categories: chemistry, energy, sustainability

A new study introduces an eco-friendly method using an AEM electrolyzer to hydrogenate cyclic amines, reducing the chemical industry’s carbon emissions. This process replaces fossil fuels with water and renewable electricity, maintaining high efficiency.

To reduce the environmental impact of the chemical manufacturing industry, it is crucial to develop greener methods for producing the chemical building blocks of widely used compounds.

It’s no secret manufacturing processes have some of the most impactful and intense effects on the environment, with the chemical manufacturing industry topping the charts for both energy consumption and emissions output. While this makes sense thanks to the grand scale in which manufactured chemicals are involved in daily life, it still leaves a lot to be desired for sustainability’s sake. By focusing on renewable energy sources and alternative methods for creating the chemical building blocks of some of the most commonly used compounds, researchers hope to reduce the chemical manufacturing industry’s footprint with some green innovation.

Oct 13, 2024

SpaceX rocket booster successfully ‘caught’ on first attempt during flight test

Posted by in category: space travel

SpaceX on Sunday successfully “caught” its “Super Heavy” booster on its first attempt during a flight test, a first for the company and its most powerful spacecraft.

Starship lifted off from its launch tower into clear morning skies from the Starbase facility in Boca Chica, Texas, at 7:25 a.m. CT with all 33 of its Raptor engines firing flawlessly.

Oct 13, 2024

Scientists created organisms in a lab that exist in a ‘third state’ beyond life and death

Posted by in category: futurism

Scientists have created a new type of organism that transcends the states of life and death. Here’s what we know.

Oct 13, 2024

Avoided quasiparticle decay from strong quantum interactions

Posted by in categories: particle physics, quantum physics

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A collective excitation behaving as a single emergent entity, known as a quasiparticle, often becomes unstable when encountering a continuum of many-body excited states. However, under certain conditions, the result can be totally different.

Oct 13, 2024

Fungal Aliens: Exploring the Possibility of Fungal-Based Extraterrestrial Life

Posted by in categories: alien life, media & arts

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Oct 13, 2024

Longi introduces 665 W HPBC photovoltaic modules

Posted by in category: futurism

The Hi-Mo X10 module series is based on Longi’s proprietary 2nd generation hybrid passivated back contact (HPBC2.0) cell technology and has a power conversion efficiency of up to 24.8%.

The modules are available in four versions with a power output up to 665 W which measures 2,382 mm x 1,134 mm x 30 mm and weigh 33.5 kg. Their temperature coefficient is-0.26% per C.

Oct 13, 2024

SpaceX Starship launches: Live updates

Posted by in category: space travel

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Oct 13, 2024

Comet Tracker For Sunday: When And Where To See It Tonight

Posted by in category: space

How, when, and where to look to see Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) after sunset this Sunday, Oct. 13, with sky charts, before it gradually fades from view.

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