A new working paper attempts to quantify the importance of more powerful computers for improving outcomes across society. In it, researchers analyzed five areas where computation is critical, including weather forecasting, oil exploration, and protein folding (important for drug discovery). Credit: MIT Q&A: MIT's Neil Thompson on Calculating Power and Innovation Technology in many industries has...
A group aboard a modern icebreaker will check the site with state-of-the-art underwater drones in hopes of finding the historic vessel. Crew members of the Endurance enjoy a quick game of soccer while on a three-year Imperial Trans-Antarctica Expedition in 1915. The 144-foot ship sank in the Anarctic Ocean that same year. Credit: Frank Hurley/Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge/Getty...
According to most geophysical models, earthquakes should not happen more than 300 kilometers beneath Earth's surface. However, they commonly do, an event that has confounded seismologists for years. Imperfections such as the inclusions (dark flecks) in this diamond reveal that tectonic slabs can carry water deep into Earth's mantle. EVAN SMITH/© 2021 GIA Researchers suggest...
More than 300 people in 21 nations outside Africa have been infected with the illness. Monkeypox (orange), shown infecting monkey cells (green) in this colorized electron micrograph, has spread to multiple countries outside Africa. The large outbreak is unusual for the virus, which is transmitted by close contact. NIAID/FLICKR (CC BY 2.0) An outbreak of monkeypox...
A swimming pool of meltwater in a crevasse in an Alaskan glacier. Credit: Earth. As environment adjustment warms the world. Glaciers are thawing much faster, as well as scientists fear that many will fall down by the end of the century. considerably elevating sea level and also swamping coastal cities and island countries. At a University...
Man and a boy walk across the dried up bed of river Yamuna following hot weather in New Delhi, India, Monday, May 2, 2022. Credit: AP Photo. Because of Global Heating earth is slipping closer to the warming limit international agreements are striving to prevent. With close to a 50% possibility that The planet will...
In June, the initial floating solar panel system located at Banja reservoir suffered damage. Credit: Offshore Energy. The Norway-based Ocean Sun, got the floating solar power project at the Banja reservoir in Albania, back online.. A tornado damaged the 500 kW unit last year simply days after it was commissioned. Floatovoltaics are an exciting name for...
Tasiilaq, Greenland. Credit: Courthouse News Service. Climate changes in the tropical Pacific have momentarily put the brakes on fast warming and ice melting in Greenland. Researchers at Hokkaido University in Japan have clarified a confusing, decade-long stagnation in summer warming across Greenland. Their observational analysis and computer simulations exposed that changes in sea surface temperature in the...
The anchor of Industry, a whaling ship that sank in 1836 in the Gulf of Mexico. Credit: NOAA Ocean Exploration Last month, scientists identified a 207-year-old shipwreck in the Gulf of Mexico as the Industry, a whaling ship that tipped over in a harsh 1836 storm. Researchers from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) made the thrilling...
This picture of the try-works was drawn from the shipwreck site of the whaler Market by an NOAA ROV. The try-works was a cast-iron stove with two deep kettles utilized to make whale blubber right into the oil. (Picture credit: NOAA Sea Expedition). Indigenous Americans and the descendants of enslaved African individuals functioned as crew...
