In the past few years, Samsung has seen a tremendous slowdown in its semiconductor chip foundry business. No big-name chip firm (apart from Samsung’s System LSI division that makes Exynos chips) has used Samsung Foundry’s 3nm and newer-generation 4nm process nodes. However, the company is still marching ahead with the development of newer chip process … Read more
Hello Nature readers, would you like to get this Briefing in your inbox free every day? Sign up here. The Great Barrier Reef in Australia is undergoing its worst coral-bleaching event on record.Credit: David Gray/AFP via Getty Australia’s iconic Great Barrier Reef is experiencing its fifth mass bleaching event in eight years — and this … Read more
Samsung, the world’s biggest memory chip maker, has announced it is the first brand to start mass-producing 1Tb TLC 9th Gen V-NAND flash chips. TLC refers to Triple Level Cell, and the new chips can store 3-bit data in one cell. Samsung becomes world’s first brand to start mass production of 1Tb 9th Generation V-NAND … Read more
Credit: Toni Albir/EPA/Shutterstock During a few weeks in the summer of 1964, Peter Higgs, a theoretical physicist at the University of Edinburgh, UK, wrote two short papers outlining his ideas for a mechanism that could give mass to fundamental particles, the building blocks of the Universe. His aim was to rescue a theory that was … Read more
Earlier this month, the editors at the linguistics journal Syntax publicly announced their resignations in response to changes to the manuscript-handling process imposed by its publisher, Wiley-Blackwell. “We have come to the conclusion that our position as editors of the journal is no longer tenable,” wrote editors Klaus Abels and Suzanne Flynn in an open … Read more
SARMs, or selective androgen receptor modulators, are musculoskeletal health medications. SARM stands for selective androgen receptor modulators, a novel class of androgen receptor ligands. With the help of SARMs, which are effective androgenic medications, it is possible to gain muscle swiftly and safely without the harmful effects of typical anabolic steroids. Every gym rat dreams … Read more