Dr. Lisa Su, the CEO of AMD, has today announced the company’s next generation mainstream Ryzen processor. From a report: The new family, known as the Ryzen 5000 series, includes four parts and supports up to sixteen cores. The key element of the new product is the core design, with AMD’s latest Zen 3 microarchitecture, promising a 19% raw increase in…
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Rat That Sniffs Out Land Mines Receives Award For Bravery
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The New York Times: The medal awarded on Friday lauded the “lifesaving bravery and devotion to duty” for work detecting land mines in Cambodia. Its recipient: a rat named Magawa.
Magawais the first rat to receive the award — a gold medal bestowed by the People’s Dispensary for Sick Animals, a British charity, that is…
Scientists probe dark matter in a virtual universe
The new work reveals dark matter haloes as active regions of the sky, teeming with not only galaxies, but also radiation-emitting collisions that could make it possible to find dark matter haloes in the real sky. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/supercomputer-study-zoom-in-dark-matter-haloes…
Massive halo finally explains stream of gas swirling around the Milky Way
The Milky Way is not alone in its neighborhood. It has captured smaller galaxies in its orbit, and the two largest are known as the Small and Large Magellanic Clouds, visible as twin dusty smears in the Southern Hemisphere. Source: https://phys.org/news/2020-09-massive-halo-stream-gas-swirling.html…
A Halo for Andromeda
M31, the Andromeda Galaxy, is the closest large spiral galaxy to Source: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html…
Sun halo with birds
Scientists call them 22-degree halos, because the shining ring around the sun (or moon) has a radius of approximately 22 degrees. Source: https://earthsky.org/todays-image/sun-halo-with-birds…
Xbox Series X Launching In November, But Halo Infinite Is Delayed Until 2021
Microsoft isn’t providing a specific release date for its next-gen Xbox Series X console, but the company did reveal it will launch in the month of November. Sadly, Microsoft and 343 Industries also announced today that Halo Infinite is being delayed to 2021. The Verge reports: The lack of Halo Infinite does mean there’s no big launch title for the Xbox…
Not a rainbow, not an iridescent cloud
There are many colored arcs in the sky. This photographer captured one commonly seen in summer, when the sun is high in the sky. Source: https://earthsky.org/todays-image/photo-circumhorizon-arc-new-mexico-august-2020…
M5, your new favorite globular cluster
Sure, M13, the Great Hercules cluster, is wonderful. But some amateur astronomers say this cluster, M5, is even better. How to find it in your sky. Source: https://earthsky.org/clusters-nebulae-galaxies/m5-best-globular-cluster-for-small-telescopes…
The beautiful mess in Abell 2255
An international team of astrophysicists led by Andrea Botteon from Leiden University, the Netherlands, has shed light on one of the most intricate objects of the radio sky: the galaxy cluster Abell 2255. Thanks to the incredible detailed images obtained with the European radio telescope LOFAR, the scientists have been able to observe details never seen before of the emission from…