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A message to meteorite hunters: Put down your magnets!

“A new study shows that simple hand magnets erase a meteorite’s magnetic memory. Each year, thousands of space rocks pierce through the Earth’s atmosphere and hit the ground as meteorites. These fragments of comets and asteroids can land …

A Novel Platinum Nanocluster for Improved Oxygen Reduction Reaction in Fuel Cells

“Scientists have elucidated the reason for the new catalyst’s high activity, which is 2.1 times higher than commercial platinum nanoparticle-based catalysts Hydrogen, derived from polymer electrolyte fuel cells (PEFCs), is an excellent source of clean energy. However, PEFCs …

AMD Bolsters Embedded Portfolio with New Ryzen Embedded 5000 Series Processors for Networking Solutions

“AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) today announced the availability of its high-performance AMD Ryzen™ Embedded 5000 Series, a new solution for customers requiring power-efficient processors optimized for “always on” networking firewalls, network-attached storage systems and other security applications. The Ryzen Embedded 5000 …

Announcing Fedora Linux 38

“Today I’m excited to share the results of the hard work of thousands of Fedora Project contributors: the Fedora Linux 38 release is here! With this release, we’re starting a new on-time streak. In fact, we’re ready …

Canonical releases Ubuntu 23.04 Lunar Lobster

“New installer, Active Directory login and gaming performance enhance Ubuntu Desktop for work and play Today Canonical announces the release of Ubuntu 23.04, codenamed “Lunar Lobster”. Available to download and install from https://ubuntu.com/download. “This Ubuntu milestone …

CMU Team Designs Four-Legged Robotic System That Can Walk a Balance Beam

“Researchers in Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute (RI) have designed a system that makes an off-the-shelf quadruped robot nimble enough to walk a narrow balance beam — a feat that is likely the first of its kind. “This experiment was …

Elon Musk’s SpaceX’s Starship rocket explodes minutes after launching from Texas

“SpaceX’s Starship rocket blasted off on its first test flight on Thursday but failed minutes after rising from the launch pad. The two-stage rocket ship, standing taller than the Statue of Liberty at 120 metres high, blasted off from …

ESA’s Juice lifts off on quest to discover secrets of Jupiter’s icy moons

“ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) lifted off on an Ariane 5 rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana at 14:14 CEST on 14 April. The successful launch marks the beginning of an ambitious voyage to uncover …

Getting Purer Berkelium, Faster than Ever

“The Science Researchers need a better way to extract individual heavy metal elements, called actinides, to obtain a purer product. In 2018, researchers discovered that the actinide berkelium, when oxidized, does not form negatively charged ions in solutions of high …

Intel Dives into the Future of Cooling

“Extending Moore’s Law means putting more transistors on an integrated circuit and, increasingly, adding more cores. Doing so improves performance but requires more energy. Over the past decade, Intel estimates it has saved 1,000 terawatt hours of electricity …