Tokyo – The creators of the world’s fastest supercomputer want to make one thing perfectly clear: they were no trying to be number one. “Of course he was happy and relieved,” Satoshi Matsuoka told CBS News about the time he learned that his team’s “Fugaku” supercomputer had taken the crown …
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The Borexino detector. Credit: Borexino A team of researchers working on the Borexino project have announced that they have observed carbon / nitrogen / oxygen (CNO) fusion neutrinos from the sun for the first time. Group spokesman Gioacchino Ranucci, a physicist at the University of Milan, announced the observation at …
Read More »Scientists say super-Earths that could host extraterrestrial life discovered nearby
A set of super-Earths has been found orbiting one of our closest stars, scientists say. Planets may be among the best opportunities to find life outside our solar system, say the researchers who discovered them. The system orbits the star Gliese 887, the brightest red dwarf in the sky. That …
Read More »Mapping the early universe with NASA’s Webb Telescope
Researchers from the CEERS Survey will use the James Webb Space Telescope to observe the Extended Groth Strip in infrared light. Their observations employ three of the telescope’s instruments and will provide images and spectra of objects in the field, which includes at least 50,000 galaxies, helping to expand what …
Read More »Just say ‘no’ to antibody testing
As a doctor in New York City, it has become my job, both in the hospital and with my family and friends, to answer questions about the coronavirus. Today’s hot topic is antibody testing, and I’ve been asked daily where people can get this new diagnostic breakthrough. However, my response …
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