Rumors about AMD’s upcoming 7nm Ryzen 3 family have been floating around for quite some time in various forms. Enthusiasts are closely interested to see what changes and improvements the company introduces with its shift to 7nm. The company disclosed some of its advances on 7nm as they concern its …
Read More »TSMC’s 7nm Node Supposedly Running Below Capacity
When GlobalFoundries canceled its 7nm ramp this year, it did so because it claimed it hadn’t found enough customers to justify the investment. The overall impact on AMD, GF’s major customer, was apparently negligible — plans were already in the works to bring Epyc and Ryzen up on 7nm. But …
Read More »New Dinosaur Species Discovered in Australia: Weewarrasaurus pobeni
Paleontologists in Australia have found a fossil fragment from a new species of ornithopod dinosaur that walked the Earth approximately 100 million years ago (Cretaceous period). An artist’s impression of Weewarrasaurus pobeni. Image credit: James Kuether. The new Australian dinosaur, named Weewarrasaurus pobeni, was about the size of a large …
Read More »Study: Adult Hearts Do Not Contain Cardiac Stem Cells
Adult cardiac stem cells don’t exist, according to a new study in mice by researchers from the Hubrecht Institute, the Amsterdam University Medical Center, the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon and the Francis Crick Institute London. Part of the heart wall of the murine heart after myocardial infarction; visible are …
Read More »Mammalian Analog of Honeybee Royal Jelly Protein Keeps Embryonic Stem Cells Youthful
A mammalian protein similar in structure to the active component of royal jelly — the queen-maker for the honeybee (Apis mellifera) — functions as kind of a fountain of youth for embryonic stem cells, according to a new study published in the journal Nature Communications. The structure of royalactin (left) …
Read More »First Jellyfish Genome Sheds Light on Evolution of Animal Complexity
A team of researchers from the United States and Germany has sequenced and analyzed the genome of the moon jellyfish (Aurelia aurita). The results show that early jellyfish repurposed an existing set of genes to transition between polyp and swimming life stages. The moon jellyfish (Aurelia aurita). Image credit: Alexander …
Read More »Researchers Find First Ever Evidence for Epigenetics in Archaea
A team of scientists from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the University of California, Santa Cruz, has found evidence that an evolutionary phenomenon at work in complex organisms is at play in archaea, a group of single-celled microorganisms famous for their love of living in extreme environments. Microscopy image of …
Read More »Salesforce doubles down on Japan with dedicated $100M fund
It’s been a good week for Japanese startups. Fresh from Google making a rare investment in the country when it backed AI startup ABEJA, Salesforce — another U.S. tech titan — has announced a $100 million fund for enterprise startups in Japan. The Japan Trailblazer Fund is Salesforce Venture’s …
Read More »Mayor Arthur Blank Already Planning On Championship Parade.
Atlanta United executives and staff welcomed members of the media to the mansion that houses Arthur Blanks family of businesses on Wednesday afternoon to crown MLS goal king Josef Martinez as the Landon Donovan 2018 MLS MVP, an emotional moment for the Venezuelan striker and his club. An even bigger …
Read More »The Key Advantages of Green Buildings for Owners and Tenants [Video]
Green buildings have really been around since the 1990s, and it’s really a way of mitigating against the environmental impact that our buildings have.So collectively, our buildings use massive amounts of resources, particularly energy. And so green buildings, unlike your conventional building, will use less energy to light a space, …
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