As the world turns to green hydrogen and other renewable energy sources, scientists have discovered that archaea – the third life form after bacteria and eukaryotes – have been making energy for billions of years using hydrogen gas and ‘ultra-minimal’ enzymes. Specifically, the international team of researchers found that at least nine phyla of archaea, … Read more
By means of Knicole Colón and Christopher Stark, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center June 9, 2024 NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope examines potentially habitable exoplanets in our Milky Way, focusing on small planets that could support life due to their location in the habitable zone. Detecting atmospheres, let alone biosignatures indicative of life, is extremely … Read more
LONDON: It was a kind of accidental discovery, Volker Vahrenkamp admits with a smile. “Sometimes these things need a little luck.” Vahrenkamp, a professor of geology at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Thuwal, on Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea coast, had set out with a team of colleagues to investigate a coastal geological … Read more
About 480 million years ago, a dazzling assortment of the variety of flavors of life emerged on Earth. There has long been speculation about what causes this abundant radiation of new species, from asteroid dust or tectonic activity, to a rise in oxygen levels in the atmosphere. Now rocks from Maryland, USA, suggest an unlikely … Read more
There’s a lot to happen during next week’s WWDC 2024 keynote. The stakes of the presentation are much higher than your standard post-event market moves. The pressure on Tim Cook and his team to deliver the goods is, in a very real sense, even greater than in the run-up to last year’s Vision Pro announcement. … Read more
Scientists have made an unexpected discovery on Greenland’s Arctic ice cap. As the frozen environment awakens in spring after months spent in darkness each year, signs of life begin to return to Greenland’s icy landscape. Several large animals, including the region’s polar bears, arctic terns and musk oxen, begin to move as sunlight warms the … Read more
Image: Nintendo Life Brace yourself: May is over, the big summer of gaming is here, and it’s time for eShop Selects again. Time flies! To say May was crazy is a bit of an understatement. Nintendo may have had two big(ish) releases with Endless Ocean Luminous and Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, but have you … Read more
Project G-Assist, NVIDIA ACE NIMs for digital humans and generative AI tools power advanced AI experiences on RTX laptops; Plus RTX-accelerated APIs for small language models coming to Windows Copilot Runtime COMPUTEX—NVIDIA announced new ones today NVIDIA RTX™ technology to power AI assistants and digital humans that run on new GeForce RTX™ AI Laptops. NVIDIA … Read more
This article was reviewed according to Science fact checked peer-reviewed publication trusted source proofread OK! (A) Hand sample of stromatolite type 1 demonstrating layered structures. (B) X-ray micro-computed tomography (μCT) XZ cross-sectional image of stromatolite type 1, revealing denser internal lamellae (red). The color bar represents the range of µCT values corresponding to the CT … Read more
Keywords Studios, a British-listed company that provides services to some of the largest video game developers, has had a challenging year. The company’s share price began to weaken in May last year amid concerns about the impact of artificial intelligence on its business. To add to the pressure, short sellers – investors who profit when … Read more