In the mystery of Florida’s bizarre spinning fish, a leading suspect has emerged
Fishermen in Florida have been reporting strange behavior from fish in the Florida Keys since October 2023, with fish seen spinning upside down and circularly swimming near the bottom. At least 47 critically endangered smalltooth sawfish have died. Scientists have been investigating the cause but initially found no issues with water quality or red tide. […]
Giant ‘rogue waves’ of invisible matter might be disrupting the orbits of stars, new study hints
Astronomers have long hypothesized the existence of dark matter, an invisible form of matter that accounts for around 85% of the mass in galaxies. Its nature remains mysterious. A new study from Chinese astronomers suggests that dark matter could exist in the form of giant “rogue waves” or solitons of ultralight particles that pass through […]
The 10 Best-Dressed Celebrities at the 2024 Met Gala
At this morning’s preview of the Met Costume Institute’s spring exhibit, “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion,” curator Andrew Bolton said the goal of the over 250 pieces on display was to engage all the senses. So while there are, as always, archival pieces to be seen in the collection, there are also creations that can be smelled, touched, […]
Study Shows Eating More of a Certain Type of Food Will Reduce Gut Inflammation
A study found that eating more of a certain type of food can help reduce gut inflammation. Gut inflammation, also known as gastrointestinal inflammation, can cause abdominal pain, nausea and general feelings of discomfort. It may be a sign of conditions like IBS or inflammatory bowel disease. Diet plays a big role in managing gut […]
Earth from space: Majestic ‘yin-yang’ crater sits atop a dormant volcano in Turkey
satellite photo of the Mount Nemrut volcano crater in Turkey, which appears in a yin-yang style pattern from space. The crater shows differentiated lava flows and a lake that have accumulated over eruptions to split the caldera almost evenly in two distinctive halves. When snow covers the volcano, the contrast makes the yin-yang pattern most […]
Meet Mona Patel, the mystery tech tycoon who ‘stole’ the Met Gala red carpet: ‘She won’
Mona Patel attended her first Met Gala in 2024 and garnered significant attention on social media for her stunning custom Iris Van Herpen ensemble. Her look featured a nude corset gown with a scalloped train and kinetic butterfly sculptures fluttering on her arms, created by metalsmith Casey Curran over the course of a month. Online […]
SpaceX Starship’s next launch ‘probably 3 to 5 weeks’ away, Elon Musk says
SpaceX’s giant Starship rocket is targeting its next launch in 3-5 weeks, according to Elon Musk. Starship is SpaceX’s fully reusable two-stage launch vehicle consisting of Super Heavy booster and Starship upper stage. It has conducted 3 test flights so far from SpaceX’s launch site in Texas, with improved performance each time. The most recent […]
OpenAI launches GPTo, improving ChatGPT’s text, visual and audio capabilities
OpenAI has introduced a new AI model called GPTo (General Pre-trained Transformer-Omni) which improves on their previous ChatGPT model. GPTo can reason across text, audio and video in real time, allowing it to understand and respond to different media formats simultaneously. In a demonstration, GPTo had a voice conversation, helped with a math problem without […]
White dwarfs are ‘heavy metal’ zombie stars endlessly cannibalizing their dead planetary systems
White dwarfs are dense, dead remnants of stars like our Sun that have burned up their nuclear fuel. They account for 97% of stars in the Milky Way. Scientists have discovered that white dwarfs have layers of “heavy metals” like silicon, magnesium and calcium on their surface, which is puzzling since these elements should sink […]
Chinese server CPU beats Microsoft, Google and AWS rivals to grab performance crown — Alibaba’s Yitian 710 is quickest server CPU but it is based on Arm rather than RISC and x86 is likely to be the overall speed champion
Alibaba Cloud’s Yitian 710 processor has been found to be the most efficient Arm-based server CPU for database tasks in large cloud computing environments, according to a new study. The 128-core Yitian 710 outperformed other Arm-based chips and ran circles around Intel’s Xeon Platinum processor in specific database workload tests. However, the Arm-based servers struggled […]