Time-shifted computing could slash data center energy costs by up to 30%
Proof-of-concept paper shows how data centers could help manage the grid.
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SpaceX’s Starship update comes at a critical time for the program
The biggest question: Are these vehicles truly ready for flight?
Moderna’s omicron booster was only as good as current vaccine in monkey study
Boosting with an omicron-specific vaccine didn't offer more protection against omicron.
Amanda Seyfried makes a winsome Elizabeth Holmes in The Dropout trailer
Theranos co-founder Holmes was recently convicted of fraud and awaits sentencing.
Health sites let ads track visitors without telling them
Third-party tools grab personal information from medical, genetic-testing company sites.
Being around predators makes animals pretty bad parents
Fear can halve the population size of songbirds—and maybe others—in five years.
Atomic cloud key to controlling a quantum state without measuring it
Cloud of atoms acts as the heart of a controller for quantum cooling system.
Watch this mama chimp treat her son’s open wound by applying insect “poultice”
Observed behavior could be evidence of "prosocial" human-like empathy in primates.
Russia has given its space chief a series of huge raises
Dmitry Rogozin received a salary of $1.3 million, plus benefits, in 2020.
Battery-powered trains are picking up speed
Electric locomotives could cut emissions of greenhouse gases, toxic pollutants.
The oldest hominin fossil ever found in the Levant
The fossil hints that early members of our genus expanded out of Africa in waves.
This fossilized fish skull is filled with feces
Tiny scavenging worms likely ate their way into the skull and pooped out the pellets.
Great balls of fire: A monk named Gervase saw ball lightning way back in 1195
Gervase of Canterbury described a "fiery globe" falling toward the Thames.
A new database reveals how much humans are messing with evolution
Some animals and plants are rapidly adapting to our warming, polluted world.
Smokers gave a home to bacteria that now sicken people with cystic fibrosis
Explaining how M. abscessus was ready once CF patients started living longer.
