climate-vs.-weather:-a-deep-dive-on-the-key-differences

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What’s the difference between ‘climate’ and ‘weather’? Although they are related, these are actually two distinct concepts and they are measured at very different timescales. Despite this, some people use these terms interchangeably, leading to confusion and misinformation about climate change. For example, a Facebook post from 9 August 2024Continue Reading

Night Owls and Early Birds Aren’t Enough: Scientists Identify Five Distinct Sleep-Wake Profiles

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New research led by McGill University scientists suggests human sleep patterns (chronotypes) fall along a broader biological spectrum — with each subtype tied to unique health and behavioral traits — challenging the simple ‘early bird/night owl’ divide. The post Night Owls and Early Birds Aren’t Enough: Scientists Identify Five DistinctContinue Reading

Nigeria Signs Agreement With South Korea’s AEDC To Establish Africa’s First EV Manufacturing Plant

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Nigeria signs agreement with South Korea’s AEDC to establish Africa’s first EV manufacturing plant. The agreement marks a major step in the country’s push to localize vehicle production and green technology adoption. With a electric vehicle (EV) production capacity of 300,000 vehicles, the plan is expected to create about 10,000 jobs…Continue Reading

TTT-Discover optimizes GPU kernels 2x faster than human experts — by training during inference

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Researchers from Stanford, Nvidia, and Together AI have developed a new technique that can discover new solutions to very complex problems. For example, they managed to optimize a critical GPU kernel to run 2x faster than the previous state-of-the-art written by human experts.Their technique, called “Test-Time Training to Discover” (TTT-Discover…Continue Reading

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When the James Webb Space Telescope peered into the dust-shrouded core of IRAS 07251–0248, it found far more small organic molecules than models predicted. The observations revealed a dense mix of hydrocarbons — including the first confirmed detection beyond the Milky Way of the methyl radical, a highly reactive carbon-based molecule — inside a galacticContinue Reading

NASA Selects Two Earth System Explorers Missions

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Two next-generation satellite missions announced Thursday will help NASA better understand Earth and improve capabilities to foresee environmental events and mitigate disasters. “NASA uses the unique vantage point of space to study our home planet to deliver life-saving data into the hands of disaster response and decision-makers every day for the benefit of all, whileContinue Reading