China’s LineShine just topped the global supercomputer ranking: what you need to know

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Tropical forests draw down and store large quantities of CO₂ from the atmosphere. The Amazon rainforest in South America, for example, stores approximately 123 billion tonnes of carbon — more than is stored in any other terrestrial ecosystem in the world. But these forests are facing a critical challenge. Research from 2023, which was carried…

UCO engineering camp attendees launching rockets. The University of Central Oklahoma’s School of Engineering is inspiring the next generation of innovators through Ignition, a hands-on engineering camp. Designed for students entering eighth through 11th grade, Ignition goes beyond traditional classroom learning by immersing campers in the engineering design process. During the two, one-week camps, participants…

If potted plants always seem to die under your care, you can take solace in knowing that plantkind as a whole will probably survive for a very long time. In fact, they might still be around when the Sun boils the oceans off the surface of Earth. That’s according to a new paper from two…

I live In the UK and in my job we use droplets of Silver Nitrate to test for presence of salt water in which case the droplet turns a milky white. I had a small dropper bottle amongst my work equipment I brought home. My elderly mother thought it must have been something like olbas…

Back to Pic of the Day List Massimo Di Fusco from Ferrara, Italy The Lion Nebula (Sh2-132) is a vast emission nebula about 10,400 light-years away in Cepheus, near the border with Lacerta. Hot, massive stars — including two Wolf-Rayet stars — ionize its hydrogen and sculpt the clouds with their fierce winds and radiation….