An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bleeping Computer: SETI@home has announced that they will no longer be distributing new work to clients starting on March 31st as they have enough data and want to focus on completing their back-end analysis of the data. SETI@home is a distributed computing project where volunteers contribute their CPU resources to analyze radio data from…
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Boeing Discovers Issue With 737 Max Flight Computers
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNN: Boeing’s troubled 737 Max has run into a new glitch. During a recent technical review involving the Max, Boeing observed an issue with the plane’s flight computers, according to a source familiar with the matter. The source said the issue is not related to the software revisions Boeing made to address the cause…
New classes of topological crystalline insulators having surface rotation anomaly
In a new report on Science Advances, Chen Fang and Liang Fu from the Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics in China, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Sciences and the Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the U.S. Detailed the discovery of new types of quantum anomalies in two-dimensional systems with time-reversal symmetry (T) (conservation of entropy) and discrete…
The US Government Begins Limiting Some Exports of AI Software
“The Trump administration will make it more difficult to export artificial intelligence software as of next week, part of a bid to keep sensitive technologies out of the hands of rival powers like China,” reports Reuters. The Verge has more details: The ban, which comes into force on Monday, is the first to be applied under a 2018 law known as…
The Quantum World May Have a Favorite Flavor, Tantalizing Results Suggest
The world of the teensy-tiny, the quantum realm, could have a favorite flavor. Here’s why that’s a big deal. Source: https://www.livescience.com/quantum-world-flavor-anomalies.html
Shape of the universe: study could force us to rethink everything we know about the cosmos
No matter how elegant your theory is, experimental data will have the last word. Observations of the retrograde motion of the planets were fundamental to the Copernican revolution, in which the sun replaced Earth at the centre of the solar system. And the unusual orbit of Mercury provided a spectacular confirmation of the theory of general relativity. In fact, our entire…
Breakthrough Listen and TESS team up for SETI
In an exciting new collaboration, Breakthrough Listen and NASA’s exoplanet-hunting mission TESS are teaming up in the search for intelligent extraterrestrial life. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/breakthrough-listen-tess-collaboration-for-seti…
Did asteroid collision trigger Earth’s abrupt cooling 12,800 years ago?
Why did Earth’s climate rapidly cool 12,800 years ago? New evidence suggests that a comet or asteroid collision is to blame, with support coming from the bottom of a South Carolina lake. Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/asteroid-comet-younger-dryas-abrupt-cooling…
Former Mir astronaut recalls UFO sightings
Retired NASA astronaut Jerry Linenger claims that he encountered several anomalies during his time in space. A former Captain in the United States Nav… Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/331469/former-mir-astronaut-recalls-ufo-sightings…
Meet Alpha Cephei, a rapidly rotating star
While not one of the most conspicuous stars in the night sky, Alderamin – aka Alpha Cephei – is easy to spot, and is interesting for its rapid rotation on its axis. Source: https://earthsky.org/brightest-stars/alderamin-the-kings-brightest-star…