schwit1 shares an excerpt from a report via Bloomberg: In a quiet neighborhood near Google’s headquarters last month, rusty, oleaginous sewage was seeping from a parked RV onto the otherwise pristine street. Sergeant Wahed Magee, of the Mountain View Police Department, was furious. Mountain View is a wealthy town that’s home to Alphabet, the world’s fourth-most valuable public corporation and Google’s…
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CosmoGAN: Training a neural network to study dark matter
As cosmologists and astrophysicists delve deeper into the darkest recesses of the universe, their need for increasingly powerful observational and computational tools has expanded exponentially. From facilities such as the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument to supercomputers like Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s Cori system at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing (NERSC) facility, they are on a quest to collect, simulate, and…
Will the Higgs boson help scientists trap dark matter?
A University of Chicago physicist has laid out an innovative method – using the Higgs boson – for stalking dark matter. He said the Higgs might actually be “a portal to the dark world.” Source: https://earthsky.org/human-world/higgs-boson-help-scientists-trap-dark-matter…
Bookstores band together for Independent Bookstore Day
Source: https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/4/24/18512589/independent-bookstore-day-book-crawl…
20 years after Columbine, the guns are still the problem
Source: https://www.vox.com/2019/4/19/18412627/columbine-anniversary-gun-control-mass-shootings…
Evidence of another possible planet orbiting Proxima Centauri
A team of researchers studying the nearest star to our solar system, Proxima Centauri, has found possible evidence of a second planet in its system. Team members Fabio Del Sordo with the University of Crete and Mario Damasso with the Observatory of Turin gave a presentation of their findings at this year’s Breakthrough Discuss conference held at the University of…
‘BlackHoles@Home’ Will Use Your PC For DIY Gravitational Wave Analysis
West Virginia University assistant professor Zachariah Etienne is launching “a global volunteer computing effort” analyzing gravitational waves from colliding black holes, reports Phys.org: “As our gravitational wave detectors become more sensitive, we’re going to need to greatly expand our efforts to understand all of the information encoded in gravitational waves from colliding binary black holes,”… Continue reading ‘BlackHoles@Home’ Will Use Your PC For DIY Gravitational Wave Analysis