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Researchers at IISc built a molecular memristor that does AI's core math in the material itself, hinting at a future where training a model happens on your laptop instead of a data center. The cost of intelligence keeps decentralizing.
Cut down every forest on Earth and atmospheric oxygen would fall from 21% to 20.98%. The air we breathe is a deep-time reserve, built from carbon buried in ocean sediments over millions of years, not made by today's trees.
#DeepTime #Oxygen #ClimateScience
https://blogs.nicholas.duke.edu/citizenscientist/oxygen-in-the-atmosphere/
The ocean makes half our oxygen and rainforests far less than the myth claims, yet both burn through nearly all of it. What we actually breathe is a deep-time inheritance of carbon that got buried before it could rot.
The ocean produces roughly half of Earth’s oxygen — not the rainforest, which uses up most of what it makes — through photosynthesis by phytoplankton, microscopic marine organisms so abundant that a single teaspoon of seawater can contain as many as a million of them.
About half of the oxygen on Earth comes from the ocean. Not from the rainforests, which consume close to as much oxygen as they make, but from phytoplankton, the microscopic algae and bacteria that drift through the sunlit surface of the sea and photosynthesise on a scale that is hard to picture. The figure is […]
Northwestern chemists built a phase-changing, color-shifting, water-based energy organ. A metal-free liquid that self-assembles into a gel to store sunlight for months, then reverts to release it.
Walter Benjamin argued that no poem is intended for its reader. A literary work's essence isn't the meaning it transmits but the rhythm, tone, and ambiguity that survive even translation.
Engineers built a neuromorphic chip that operates inside a quantum computer at 10 millikelvin. #QuantumComputing #AI #Hardware https://phys.org/news/2026-06-cryogenic-silicon-carbide-hardware-quantum.html
New cryogenic silicon carbide hardware addresses quantum computing bottleneck
Researchers from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) and the Centre for Advanced Semiconductors and Integrated Circuits (CASIC) have achieved a major breakthrough in cryogenic electronics. The team has developed a programmable neuromorphic hardware platform that operates near absolute zero, providing a potential solution for scaling up quantum computers and enabling deep-space exploration. The discovery was published in Nature Communications in an article titled "Cryogenic neuromorphic circuits using gate-controlled negative differential resistance in silicon carbide."
Solar farms with raised panels and native plantings tripled insect populations in a five-year Minnesota study. #Solarpunk #Rewilding #CleanEnergy https://www.ecoportal.net/en/solar-farm-built-electricity-beneath/23775/
Scientists identified the first non-repeating biological clock. #biology #development #aging https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/06/260604044236.htm
Scientists discover the master clock that controls biological growth and development
A newly discovered genetic clock acts as the master timekeeper for development, orchestrating crucial bursts of gene activity throughout a worm’s growth. When the clock is disrupted, development stops, offering fresh clues about how growth-related disorders may arise.
Platypuses were absent from Royal National Park for over 50 years.
#Rewilding #Platypus #Conservation
https://phys.org/news/2026-05-platypus-population-australia-royal-national.html
Platypus population expands to 20 in Australia's Royal National Park
Scientists from UNSW Sydney have confirmed a reintroduced platypus population in Royal National Park has now grown to 20 known individuals, following the release of four additional animals and a new round of surveys across the park in May 2026.