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May 19, 2021

Nvidia’s ownership of ARM could drive customers to RISC-V, other alternatives if not careful, says Xilinx CEO

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If ARM doesn’t prove it can be a level playing field in Nvidia’s ownership, customers will defect to alternatives.

May 19, 2021

Sperm help ‘persuade’ the female to accept pregnancy

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Conditions like recurrent miscarriage, preeclampsia, preterm birth and stillbirth are affected by the female’s immune response in ways that the partner’s sperm contribute to.


Sperm are generally viewed as having just one action in reproduction—to fertilize the female’s egg—but studies at the University of Adelaide are overturning that view.

Published in Nature Research journal Communications Biology, new research shows that sperm also deliver signals directly to the female reproductive tissues to increase the chances of conception.

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May 18, 2021

Gigajot Unveils World’s First Commercially Available Quanta Image Sensors

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Photon counting and reliable photon number resolving, until now, only partially available utilizing esoteric EMCCD technology in highly controlled laboratory environments, is now possible with a compact form-factor camera, operating at room temperature — with the additional benefits of higher resolution and speed. “The ability to do photon counting at room temperature is a game changer for our research efforts in Astrophysics and Quantum Information Science,” said Dr. Don Figer, Director of Center for Detectors and the Future Photon Initiative in the College of Science, Rochester Institute of Technology.

May 18, 2021

Solar Orbiter captures its 1st video of eruption on the sun

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The US-European Solar Orbiter mission caught footage of a coronal mass ejection bursting out of the sun’s atmosphere during the spacecraft’s first close pass by our star.

May 16, 2021

“Extinct fossil fish” dating back 420 million years found alive

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A “four-legged fossil fish” predating dinosaurs has been recently rediscovered by groups hunting sharks with deep-sea nets.

May 15, 2021

New river trash Interceptors are stopping plastic from reaching the ocean

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The Ocean Cleanup’s Boyan Slat talks about upgrades and future plans for deploying more Interceptors designed to catch plastic and debris in rivers all around the world.

Read the CNET article: The third-generation Interceptor is ready to stop ocean plastic https://cnet.co/2QexlM1

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May 15, 2021

Surfer Becomes First to Cross the Atlantic on a Paddleboard

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Circa 2017 o,.o.


Ninety-three days, 4600 miles, and almost 2 million strokes. That’s what it took Chris Bertish to paddle across the Atlantic Ocean on a stand-up paddle (SUP) board.

“It was pretty radical, pretty incredible, driven by a passion and a purpose greater than yourself—and that powered me to get through everything, day in and day out,” said Bertish in a Skype interview with National Geographic.

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May 14, 2021

Israel-Hamas Conflict Will End Soon, Says Former Ambassador

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May.14 — Martin Indyk, the former U.S. Ambassador to Israel, expects a cease fire soon in the latest Israel-Hamas conflict in the Gaza Strip. He appears on “Balance of Power.”

May 14, 2021

Yoshihiko Ishikawa Wins Badwater in Record Time, Then Proposes at Finish Line

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Circa 2019


While we’ve seen plenty of runners propose postmarathon (or even, dare we say it, in the middle of a marathon), few have gone the extra mile—or in this case, the extra 100-plus miles—before popping the question.

May 14, 2021

Fruit flies can travel six million times their body length

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In a new study from the California Institute of Technology, experts have discovered that fruit flies can fly up to 15 kilometers in a single journey. This distance is the equivalent of the average human traveling over 10000 kilometers, or more than 6200 miles.

The record for the longest distance by a human was set in 2005, when an ultramarathon runner Dean Karnazes ran continuously for 80 hours over 350 miles – roughly 324000 times his body length. The Caltech study has found that fruit flies can travel up to six million times the length of their body.

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