With the first Zen 5 CPUs and SoCs shipping later this month, AMD offered a closer look at the architectural improvements behind the platform’s 16 percent increase in instructions per clock (IPC) during its Tech Day event in LA last week. House of Zen’s 9000 series was announced at Computex in June and follows a … Read more
The age-old debate over nature versus nurture (whether our genes or environment play a more important role in shaping our intelligence) has long intrigued scientists, educators, and the public. A recent groundbreaking study, published in the journal Personality and individual differencessheds new light on this discussion. The longitudinal study, the first of its kind using … Read more
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific developments and more. CNN — About half a billion years ago, a volcanic eruption near a shallow sea in what is now Morocco produced some of the most complete specimens ever found of trilobites, insect-like marine creatures, revealing … Read more
By Jane Herz for Dailymail.Com 18:35 09 Jul 2024, updated 18:46 09 Jul 2024 Share or comment on this article: The newest, most popular workout combines the best of both worlds: you can do it right at home and you don’t even have to clear your schedule for it. Does this sound too good to … Read more
By Rebecca Davison for MailOnline 07:59 09 Jul 2024, updated 08:29 09 Jul 2024 Share or comment on this article: She’s back with a brand new single and a new album – her first music in 10 years – and it’s safe to say a lot has happened for Pixie Lott in that time. In … Read more
An image of the cyanobacterium Tolypothrix. Source: Wikipedia / CC BY-SA 3.0 The human body’s inability to break down sucralose, an artificial sweetener found in many low-calorie food and beverage products, has been well established by scientific research. The compound is so stable that it escapes wastewater treatment and finds its way into drinking water … Read more
A hellish planet with a “hot Jupiter” relatively close to Earth would probably smell like rotten eggs if we ever made the trip there, new data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) reveals. HD 189733 b is a gas giant located about 64 light-years away in the constellation Vulpecula. It orbits extremely close to … Read more
Asda is abandoning plans to introduce a four-day working week after complaints from exhausted staff exposed a crucial misstep in the successful implementation of reduced working patterns. The supermarket chain launched a trial to have employees work their 44-hour week over four days instead of five for the same pay. That translated into 11-hour shift … Read more
39 Scientists have calculated the speed of meteoroid impacts on Mars using seismic measurements taken by NASA’s retired InSight lander during its mission. Two companion studies published June 28 independently estimate significantly higher speeds than previously inferred from images taken by spacecraft orbiting the Red Planet. The studies show that seismic measurements promise to be … Read more
A new study challenges the view that ammonites declined before their extinction 66 million years ago, showing instead that they remained globally diverse and robust. The research highlights that their extinction was influenced by a range of geographic and environmental factors, rather than an inevitable outcome. Ammonites bask in the Late Cretaceous sun. Credit: Artwork … Read more