The Frontier supercomputer located at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has been named the world’s fastest supercomputer! This achievement was announced on May 30, 2022 by TOP500, a ranking of the world’s 500 fastest performing commercial computers. The Frontier supercomputer ranked number one breaking the exascale limit with 1.1 exaflops of performance […]
Science News & Discoveries
New Research Uncovers Link Between Social Media and Dissociation
On May 3rd, 2022, researchers from the University of Washington revealed results from a study entitled, “I Don’t Even Remember What I Read”: How Design Influences Dissociation on Social Media. The focus of the study was normative dissociation. Normative dissociation is daydreaming or having your mind “wander” so much that you lose track of time […]
Salamanders glide like skydivers
In the forests of northwestern California, there lives a species of salamander called the “wandering” salamander. These tan, mottled salamanders have a special ability: they can control their falls by gliding like a skydiver. These wandering salamanders climb up redwoods as high as 88 meters and live in the ferns that grow there. While most […]
Astronomers find trove of massive black holes in dwarf galaxies
A team of researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill discovered a hidden trove of massive black holes in dwarf galaxies. This trove of black holes had been previously overlooked, making this finding a key to our understanding of black holes in dwarf galaxies. Black holes […]
Neptune is Cooler Than We Thought
Scientists are constantly learning about the other planets in our solar system. It’s not something that many people think about, but other planets have weather phenomena that’s just as dramatic and diverse as ours, if not more! Recently, researchers just made a perplexing discovery about Neptune’s climate; one which is shrouded in mystery. According […]
Brain Implant Enables Man to Communicate Again
A 34-year-old man trapped in a pseudocoma was given an experimental brain implant that successfully allowed him to communicate with his family and doctors (Science Alert). A pseudocoma, otherwise known as “locked-in syndrome,” is a condition in which a person is fully conscious but unable to move or communicate, and can be extreme enough to […]
