New images of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus demonstrate the potential of the helium ion microscopy in bioimaging, especially for the imaging of interactions between viruses and their host organisms. This helium ion microscope image shows SARS-CoV-2 virus particles (blue). Image credit: N. Frese / Bielefeld University. Helium ion microscopy offers the …

  Intel’s is currently ramping volume on its Ice Lake-SP CPU, but die shots of its follow-up generation, Sapphire Rapids, have already leaked. To quickly recap: Up until now, Intel’s desktop and server processors have both been based on 14nm CPUs. Ice Lake-SP is Intel’s first 10nm server product and …

  Nvidia’s Ampere launch last fall combined a very good GPU with a very bad availability situation. Five months later, it’s still a very good GPU, with a reportedly worsening availability situation. The culprit, in this case, is Chinese New Year, when a number of factories close to celebrate the …

  SpaceX already has a number of lucrative contracts with NASA thanks to its reusable Falcon 9 rocket, not least of which is the recently realized Commercial Crew Program. NASA isn’t just using SpaceX for crewed flights, though. The agency has just awarded SpaceX another cargo contract, this one to …

Linear A is a logo-syllabic script used for administrative purposes on Bronze Age Crete. Together with Cretan Hieroglyphic, it is one of two writing systems created by the Minoan civilization. Upon its template, the Mycenaeans later created the Linear B script to register their dialect of ancient Greek. Linear B …

The New York Mets have reached an agreement with free-agent outfielder Albert Almora Jr., according to Ken Rosenthal and Andy McCullough of The Athletic. Almora figures to see most of his action against left-handed pitching. The Mets are currently slated to start three left-handed outfielders on most days: Dominic Smith, …

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The New Orleans Saints have again found themselves in hot water with the league, as the NFL has reportedly found new and serious COVID-19 protocol violations that occurred this season. According to Tom Pelissero of the NFL Network, the Saints will be facing the “biggest discipline yet” after the NFL …

Steve Nash doesn’t think he handled the mess with Kevin Durant well on Friday. Though, it’s hard to imagine any coach would’ve handled the back-and-forth Nash dealt with against the Raptors, losing Durant just before the game due to health and safety protocols, then getting him back — only to …

  The 20th century was notable for numerous reasons, not least of which that humanity split the atom. In the remnants of atomic explosions, scientists found never-before-seen elements like einsteinium. Now, almost 70 years after its discovery, scientists have collected enough einsteinium to conduct some basic analysis. Scientists understood that …