2,654 source-backed science facts - each attributed to a named person and a number, linked to the original source. Page 17 of 27.
“the museum (including the brand-new air and space center) is entirely free to the public”
“can fit roughly 50 billion transistors onto a space the size of a human fingernail.”
“and initially, in a very government way, they said, ‘What if we did 100 species?’”
“and it's on the metro line, which kids in L.A. can ride for free.”
“nearly 100 billion transistors into a fingernail-size space — nearly twice that of the current 2 nm platform.”
“In February, Colossal announced another partnership, this one with the Museum of the Future in Dubai, where scientists are looking to cryopreserve cell and tissue samples from more than 10,000 species.”
“After over three decades of ideation, development and construction, the California Science Center has officially announced an opening date for its brand-new Samuel Oschin Air & Space Center...”
“provides up to 50% greater performance with a 70% reduction in energy use versus the 2 nm platform”
“up to 30% of the planet’s existing genetic diversity will vanish by as early as 2050”
“And seven years after that, in 2023, two solid rocket boosters arrived...”
“demonstrated a 40% improvement in the scaling of SRAM memory versus the 2 nm platform”
“the futuristic building stands a whopping 20 stories tall”
“thanks to a near-twice jump in the transistor count”
“With the next total solar eclipse coming up on Aug. 12”
“For the first time, scientists can develop computer chips with transistors smaller than 1 nanometer. The new "NanoStack" architecture that has made this possible could even one day lead to transistors as small as 0.1 nm, the scientists cla…”
“We have an annular solar eclipse coming on Feb. 6, 2027”
“The new 0.7 nm transistors are significantly smaller than those that feature in standard 2 nm semiconductor chips used in supercomputers, AI systems and advanced graphics processing units (GPUs).”
“and the 'eclipse of the century' coming on Aug. 2, 2027”
“A typical 2 nm chip design, for example, can fit roughly 50 billion transistors onto a space the size of a human fingernail.”
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“At this size, engineers can squeeze nearly 100 billion transistors into a fingernail-size space — nearly twice that of the current 2 nm platform.”
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“The first of these chips is expected to be manufactured with transistors that are a mere 7 angstroms — equivalent to 0.7 nanometers or roughly the width of a glucose molecule.”
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“This enables engineers to vertically stack the nanosheets used to build the previous generation of 2 nm computer chips. The technology used in all conventional circuits — known as complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) — demands ex…”
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“IBM representatives added in the briefing that the new technology provides up to 50% greater performance with a 70% reduction in energy use versus the 2 nm platform — and will eventually replace this technology altogether within the next f…”
“Harry joined Space.com in December 2024 as an e-commerce staff writer covering cameras, optics, and skywatching content.”
“IBM representatives added in the press briefing that they demonstrated a 40% improvement in the scaling of SRAM memory versus the 2 nm platform.”
“Harry graduated in 2019 with a Bachelor's degree in American Literature with Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia.”
“And we believe that transition will happen at around 7 angstroms. So within a decade, this will become another mainstream [platform] that we have invented. This is the next jump in technology.”
“The Falcon 9 upper stage is left over from the launch that sent Firefly's Blue Ghost-1 lander to the moon on Jan. 15, 2025 by way of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative.”
“IBM representatives said the nanostacking approach isn't a minor upgrade but a generational shift that will eventually enable foundries to scale these chips from 0.7 nm transistors all the way to a single angstrom or just 0.1 nm — keeping …”
“In September 2025, his software for computing orbits analyzed the observations and projected an impact with the moon on Aug. 5, 2026.”
“Shrinking the transistor nodes on these chips will allow for more powerful processes, they said, thanks to a near-twice jump in the transistor count, while the stacked and staggered design significantly reduces the energy requirements.”
“It was Gray's work with Project Pluto that got the word out about the roughly four metric ton Falcon 9 upper stage intersection with the moon at over two kilometers a second.”
“But it wasn't a giant temblor like 2002's that revealed the hidden edge of the Yakutat. Instead, it was unmasked by about 3,000 newly discovered minuscule earthquakes clustered in a clean line running from northwest to southeast for 155 mi…”
“LRO will be passing over the projected crash site about seven days prior to the impact and about seven days after the impact, Garry said.”
“This is a tectonically active region, most famous for a 2002 magnitude 7.9 earthquake that was felt as far away as Seattle.”
“After the impact we might have a little bit more knowledge of where it is. We can do some additional targeting about a week after the impact and get some targeting over where the site is," said Garry.”
“Miller and her colleagues reported in the new study, published June 4 in the journal The Seismic Record.”
“Given the moon's one-sixth gravity, how long will it take for that material to fall back onto the lunar surface?”
“Formed by volcanoes tens of millions of years ago, this block of crust is now being pushed under the North American Plate in Alaska in a process called subduction.”
“The SpaceShipTwo could fly six people in this little rocketship that would get airdropped from a plane. Their first flight into space was in 2018, and this movie came out in 2021, so my guess is that the filmmakers were actually drawing a …”
“The results were published Wednesday (June 24) in the journal Science Advances.”
“As Schmidt explains, the SpaceShipTwo dropped at around 40,000 feet while the vehicle in 'F9' is at 50,000 feet, but it's still a similar-enough concept.”
“Perseverance landed in Jezero crater on Feb. 18, 2021.”
“To stay in orbit you have to be moving sideways at about 7.8 kilometres per second”
“some 2,300 miles (3,700 kilometers) away”
“which makes it heat past 1000°C”
“The Cheyava Falls sample was originally supposed to be brought to Earth in the 2030s”
“the aircraft from the external shot looks a little like a military C-17 – except that it has four engines.”
“in its 2026 budget proposal, the Trump administration deemed the mission "financially unsustainable" and proposed slashing the project”
“The very first time human beings went above Earth into an area where there wasn't enough breathable air, Wiley Post was one of the first pioneers doing this in the 1930s.”
“in a mission due to launch no sooner than 2028”
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“Science Advances, 12 (26).”
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“simulated corporate network containing 33 hosts”
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“replicated itself across roughly 62% of the network over the course of a week”
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“In experiments described in a new study uploaded June 2 to the arXiv preprint server, the worm was tested against a simulated corporate network containing 33 hosts, including Linux servers, Windows workstation computers and other internet-…”
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“In experiments described in a new study uploaded June 2 to the arXiv preprint server...”
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“"The main finding is that this type of system can do more than run a fixed exploit; it can examine the target environment, reason about possible vulnerabilities, use tools to attempt attacks, and then replicate itself after a successful co…”
“62 min flight time total (2 batteries)”
“"Traditional worms follow a scripted sequence: Once a vulnerability is identified, the worm replicates," Hutchins told Live Science. "In contrast, the researchers demonstrated that an easily downloaded AI model could be used as the decisio…”
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“"What made it particularly dangerous was a clever tiered design," Tom Vazdar, a professor of AI and cybersecurity at the Open Institute of Technology, told Live Science. "GPU-equipped compromised machines provided reasoning capacity for li…”
“photos up to 48MP”
“"The researchers employed lightweight open-weight models during their demonstration, which are relatively easy to download, remove guardrail components from, and utilize," Hutchins told Live Science.”
“video up to 4K at 30FPS”
“"The attacker's marginal cost drops to essentially zero. And you can't patch your way out of it, because it doesn't rely on a single vulnerability class. It reasons. Patch one hole, and it finds another."”
“4K/30fps (or 60fps at 1080p) video capture”
“For half a century, scientists have known that Earth's Northern and Southern hemispheres have almost the exact same albedo”
“1/2.3-inch 12MP CMOS sensor”
“Now, researchers have uncovered another surprising symmetry hiding in the data: Earth's Eastern and Western halves appear to reflect the same amount of sunlight as well, they reported in a study published June 3 in the journal Nature. They…”
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“But what is surprising, they write, is how closely matched they are. The probability of the hemispheres naturally reflecting sunlight within 0.01 watts per square meter of each other is less than 3%.”
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“Earth's planetary albedo is about 29%, according to the study. This means that about 0.29 of the solar radiation that hits Earth is reflected back into space.”
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“To identify the symmetry, Zhang and his colleagues analyzed 25 years of satellite observations from 2001 to 2025 collected by the CERES program”
“TechRadar: ★★★★½”
“Second, it's consistent across a 25-year dataset.”
“Space: ★★★★★”
“Lastly, there is "triple symmetry": The two hemispheres contain similar proportions of ice-free ocean, experience similar cloud effects, and reflect similar amounts of sunlight under clear skies.”
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“When they examined the slight changes in the exact longitude of this symmetry, they found correlation with the ENSO record.”
“captures 12MP photos in RAW and JPEG formats”
“During La Niña years, the circulation is stronger, causing warmer water and so the Eastern Hemisphere has more clouds, and thus reflects slightly more sunlight.”
“If everything goes according to plan, the megaconstellation will be about 100 times bigger than the current version of Starlink.”
“During El Niño, the circulation weakens, warm water spreads across the Pacific and so the Western Hemisphere reflects more.”
“By directly harnessing near-constant solar power with little operating or maintenance costs, these satellites will transform our ability to scale compute.”
“Other analyses showed that the Northern Hemisphere's albedo was the same as the Southern Hemisphere's, although recent research co-authored by Loeb suggests that the Northern Hemisphere is now absorbing more light than the Southern, likely…”
“Launching a constellation of a million satellites that operate as orbital data centers is a first step towards becoming a Kardashev II-level civilization, one that can harness the sun's full power, while supporting AI-driven applications f…”
“To identify the symmetry, Zhang and his colleagues analyzed 25 years of satellite observations from 2001 to 2025 collected by the CERES program, which uses satellites to measure Earth’s energy budget.”
“They found that the dividing line lies along a great circle that wraps around the whole planet. It's made up of two longitude lines: the 27 degrees east and 153 degrees west meridians, which stretch from the North to South Pole through Eas…”
