Biology

Solar-Powered Japanese EV Maker

As far as adorably tiny trucks and vans go, Japan has the rest of the world beat. The country is known for using “kei cars,” relatively affordable, ultra-compact vehicles, to conduct personal and commercial transportation on narrow streets. Though kei cars have historically been gas-powered, electric versions are beginning to …

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Nvidia H100 Accelerators

Back in simpler times, startups in Silicon Valley used to brag about how much funding they’d received as a useful metric to compare their importance with their rivals. These days, for AI-based startups, at least, that metric is now the number of Nvidia H100 GPUs they can acquire. With Nvidia’s …

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Tubing for Liquid Cooled Builds

Ever since both DIY and all-in-one liquid cooling kits hit the market, the tubes that force liquid into the water block over the CPU have always entered from above the chip. This was the only way to get liquid into the system, as the CPU and motherboard are beneath the …

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Google Bard AI With a Google Search

Google wasted no time releasing its Bard AI chatbot in early 2023 following the reveal of ChatGPT in Microsoft Bing, but maybe it should have spared a little time. Bard launched with embarrassing glitches, and Google still finds itself apologizing for the AI. It’s not that Bard is worse than …

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Inno3D Launches Nvidia GeForce

People who build PCs are always looking for better ways to hide their unseemly cables, but it’s always been difficult with GPUs. They are usually quite large, and the power connector has always been right out in the open, smack dab on the side of the GPU facing the side …

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Newly Discovered Bacterium

Biologists have isolated a new type of multicellular bacterium, named Jeongeupia sacculi HS-3, from an underground stream in northern Kyushu Island, Japan. Jeongeupia sacculi HS-3 represents an unusual form of bacterial multicellularity — an organism that can exist in dense, filamentous multicellular structures and clusters of coccobacillus (short rod-shaped) daughter …

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Orchid Bee Discovered

Entomologists have described a new species of the neotropical orchid bee genus Eufriesea from the Islas Marías of Nayarit State, México in the Pacific. Eufriesea insularis, female holotype. Image credit: Ayala et al., doi: 10.3897/jhr.92.87197. Eufriesea is a genus of over 60 bee species in the tribe Euglossini, commonly known …

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Newly Australian Native Bee

Curtin University researcher Kit Prendergast has named the new bee species Leioproctus zephyr, after her pet dog Zephyr after noticing a protruding part of the bee’s face looked similar to a dog’s snout. Leioproctus zephyr. Image credit: Kit Prendergast. The newly-described bee species belongs to Leioproctus, a species-rich genus in …

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New Species Found in Brazilian Rainforest

Scientists have described a new species of the flowering plant genus Thismia from a forest in the Mantiqueira mountains in southeast Brazil. Thismia mantiqueirensis, habit in litter, individuals in blooming and in bud. Image credit: E. Muscat. Thismia is a genus of small, ephemeral herbaceous plants in the family Burmanniaceae. …

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Spiders Catapult Themselves

Researchers have found that a species of wee venomless orb weaver known as Philoponella prominens uses a truly unique strategy to prevent marital disharmony. After mating, the males bounce. Literally. P. prominens is a “social” spider. Social spiders live in communal webs that house up to 300 residents. They cooperate …

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