For about four years now, AMD has offered special “X3D” variants of its high-end desktop processors with an extra 64MB of L3 cache attached, an addition that disproportionately benefits…
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This popular supplement may increase risk of birth defects, study finds
Antioxidants are often promoted as powerful supplements, credited with helping prevent chronic illnesses and cancer, treating conditions like COPD and dementia, and even slowing the aging process.
However, new research from the Texas A&M College…
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Why student samples can mislead: Higher education may shift values toward Western norms
A new study published in Nature Communications finds that worldwide, people with higher levels of education are more culturally similar to those in Canada, the U.S., U.K., and other Anglo, industrialized countries and countries in Western Europe.
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The northern lights' dark twin is a wild card for the power grid
Scientists are working to understand how magnetic currents from the sun spread beneath Earth’s crust when the northern lights dance across the sky. Their goal is to tame its “dark twin” and prevent damage to our power grid.
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Verdicts against Meta, YouTube could be a turning point, expert says
A landmark California verdict that found the social media company Meta and video-sharing service YouTube liable for the depression and mental health challenges of a young woman could be “the beginning of a tidal wave,” a social media expert said.
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Rocket Report: Russia reopens gateway to ISS; Cape Canaveral hosts missile test
More to come?… Lt. Gen. Doug Schiess, the Space Force’s deputy chief of operations, told a House subcommittee Wednesday that the military was looking at moving more missions off of ULA’s Vulcan rocket to other…
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First US uranium conversion plant in 70 years to fuel nuclear reactors
Texas-based startup FluxPoint Energy has officially announced plans to build the first new US uranium conversion facility in more than seven decades.
The company introduced the initiative this week at the CERAWeek conference in Houston to…
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The Download: the internet’s best weather app, and why people freeze their brains
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What’s next for space exploration?
Whether it’s the race to find life on Mars, the campaign to outsmart killer…
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Scientists discover why cancer drugs don’t work for everyone
One of the biggest challenges in cancer care is that the same therapy can be highly effective for some patients yet fail entirely for others. A new study published in Nature Communications, led by Dr. Louise Fets at the MRC Laboratory of Medical…
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Something Is Killing This Black Hole at Impossible Speed, And Nobody Knows What
A galaxy roughly 10 billion light-years from Earth has dimmed to one-twentieth of its former brightness in only two decades, an astronomical eyeblink. The culprit, researchers say, is a supermassive black hole that appears to be running out…
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