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Want to see what an Exaflop supercomputer looks like (and how it is cooled)? Check out this video of Aurora, the world’s second most powerful HPC ever

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Want to see what an Exaflop supercomputer looks like (and how it is cooled)? Check out this video of Aurora, the world’s second most powerful HPC ever

Few people will ever get to see inside a supercomputer for real, but it is possible to take a virtual tour. Nvidia previously opened the doors to Eos, one of the world’s fastest supercomputers, and now Department of Energy’s Argon National Laboratory has prepared a short 5-minute video guiding viewers through Aurora, its exascale supercomputer. … Read more

Blueprinting extendable nanomaterials with standardized protein blocks

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Blueprinting extendable nanomaterials with standardized protein blocks

Natural and previously designed proteins exhibit a wide range of helical geometries with local irregularities, kinks and deviations from linearity16 that make it difficult to achieve the properties illustrated in Fig. 1 that enable simple nanomaterial scaling (beyond the one dimension accessed by varying the number of repeats in a repeat protein or coiled coil). … Read more

Quordle today – hints and answers for Thursday, March 14 (game #780)

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Quordle today – hints and answers for Thursday, March 14 (game #780)

It’s time for your daily dose of Quordle hints, plus the answers for both the main game and the Daily Sequence spin off.  Quordle is the only one of the many Wordle clones that I’m still playing now, around two years after the daily-word-game craze hit the internet, and with good reason: it’s fun, but … Read more

Numbers highlight US dominance in clinical research

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Numbers highlight US dominance in clinical research

As the leading country in health-sciences output in the Nature Index, the United States’ Share is almost 8,500, higher than the next 10 leading countries combined. As a result, US institutions feature prominently among the leading research organizations for the subject, with 30 of the top 50 being based there. The country’s dominance means that … Read more

Millions of secrets and auth keys were leaked on GitHub last year

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Millions of secrets and auth keys were leaked on GitHub last year

Millions of secrets and authentication keys were leaked on GitHub in 2023, with the majority of developers not caring to revoke them even after being notified of the mishap, new research has claimed. A report from GitGuardian, a project that helps developers secure their software development with automated secrets detection and remediation, claims that in … Read more

researchers map organ in stunning detail

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researchers map organ in stunning detail

The heart is the first organ to develop, but despite its importance, scientists know surprisingly little about exactly how its cells are arranged. Read the paper here: Spatially organized cellular communities form the developing human heart Now a team of researchers have combined RNA sequencing and cutting edge imaging technology to map the heart in … Read more

Maingear launches gorgeous gaming PCs with even sleeker motherboard cable management

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Maingear launches gorgeous gaming PCs with even sleeker motherboard cable management

Maingear announced its latest line of gaming PCs, which not only boasts a beautiful aesthetic but also feature truly unique: hidden motherboard cables. The Zero series not only has one of the cleanest designs I’ve ever seen among the best gaming PCs, but it also uses MG-RC (Maingear Rear Connection) technology. It combines a stunning … Read more

A guide to the Nature Index

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A guide to the Nature Index

The Nature Index is a database of author affiliations and institutional relationships. The index tracks contributions to research articles published in high-quality natural-science and health-science journals, chosen based on reputation by an independent group of researchers. The Nature Index provides absolute and fractional counts of article publication at the institutional and national level and, as … Read more

Watch out — these malicious PyPl packages could drain your wallet, and they’ve already been downloaded thousands of times

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Watch out — these malicious PyPl packages could drain your wallet, and they’ve already been downloaded thousands of times

Be careful when downloading Python packages from PyPI – researchers have found some are malicious and looking to steal your cryptocurrency haul.  Cybersecurity researchers from ReversingLabs recently discovered seven such packages, whose goal is to steal BIP39 mnemonic phrases from its victims.  A cryptocurrency wallet is secured in two ways: with a password, and with … Read more

Anthony Epstein (1921–2024), discoverer of virus causing cancer in humans

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Anthony Epstein (1921–2024), discoverer of virus causing cancer in humans

Credit: Stuart Bebb/Wolfson College Archives Anthony (Tony) Epstein, co-discoverer of the Epstein–Barr virus (EBV), was the founding father of research into the part that viruses play in the development of human cancers. Today, seven types of viral infection — more than one of which can be prevented by vaccination — are known to cause specific … Read more