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At the Math Olympiad, Computers Prepare to Go for the Gold
The 61st international mathematical olympiad, or imo, begins today. Due to the covid-19 pandemic it’s the…
Two new medicines to treat advanced prostate cancer hailed as a ‘breakthrough’ – what it means
The drugs, olaparib and ipatasertib, could potentially become the first ever precision medicines for prostate cancer…
Interventions Meant To Slow The Spread Of Covid-19 Have All But Stopped The Spread Of Flu
Thanks to masks, social distancing and other measures adopted since March, far fewer people in the…
World’s Richest One Percent Are Producing More Than Double the Carbon Emissions as the Bottom 50 Percent
Climate fires explicitly links record-breaking blazes that have burned across california, oregon and washington to global…
NASA says Artemis astronauts may not visit the lunar South Pole
NASA has had a primary focus for many months on putting astronauts back on the moon…
PS5 Game File Sizes Revealed, And They Are Huge
Spider-Man: Miles Morales and Demon’s Souls will both take up a lot of space on your…
Coronavirus can spread on airline flights, two studies show
Coronavirus can spread on flights. Two new studies describe how it happened. Read more at CNN…
Gaming companies are reportedly the next targets in the US government’s potentially broader Tencent purge – TechCrunch
Some of the biggest names in online gaming in the United States have received letters from…
In A Complete Fluke, A European Spacecraft Is About To Fly Past Venus – And Could Look For Signs Of Life
On Monday, September 14, a team of scientists said they had found evidence for phosphine in…
How AI will automate cybersecurity in the post-COVID world
As cybercrime is becoming more lucrative and more automated, we’re going to have to depend on…
Physicists who disproved ‘5th force’ win $3 million ‘Breakthrough’ prize
They’ve used their carefully calibrated torsion balances to disprove a hypothetical force, feel the pull of…
Why is there a normal galaxy sitting at the edge of the Universe?
Aided by a trick of gravity, astronomers have found a normal galaxy. Big deal, right? The…
World’s wildlife populations fell 68% since 1970: WWF | DW | 10.09.2020
The environment advocacy organization has warned of “staggering” decline in global wildlife populations. A study published…
The EmDrive Just Won’t Die
More than 20 years after its introduction, the EmDrive is still being tested in labs around…
Mathematicians Open a New Front on an Ancient Number Problem
The odd perfect number conjecture is one of the oldest unsolved problems in mathematics. It has…
Earth barreling toward ‘Hothouse’ state not seen in 50 million years, epic new climate record shows
Record goes back to the dinosaur extinction. Read more at livescience.com…
New Hubble Data Suggests There is an Ingredient Missing from Current Dark Matter Theories
Observations by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT)…
Microsoft’s updated DeepSpeed can train trillion-parameter AI models with fewer GPUs
The company claims the technique, dubbed 3d parallelism, adapts to the varying needs of workload requirements…
Physicist: The entire universe might be a neural network
We live inside a neural network, he says, not a simulation — “but we might never…