AMD’s Winning Data Center Strategy

AMD is on a run now. No longer in Intel’s shadow, it’s taking the PC market and data center by storm. While part of the reason is that Intel stumbled…

South Africa’s coal lobby is resisting a green transition

Coal lobbyists have defended industry interests, met with politicians and delayed climate legislation in South Africa. Pascaline Mazibuko has become a recurrent voice in government consultations on the energy transition…

How the trajectory of protons is made visible using an ‘in-beam MRI’ prototype

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The aim of proton radiation therapy in fighting cancer is to kill as many tumor cells as possible while also protecting the surrounding healthy tissue. As…

Lithium batteries have a 4-hour limit. Mateo Jaramillo hopes to solve that

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Wind and solar power are sometimes dinged for not producing electricity 24 hours a day, but one of the most abundant minerals on the planet, iron,…

Photon pairs compress an electron beam into short pulses

DNA has revealed the origin of this giant ‘mystery’ gecko

A lizard called Delcourt’s giant gecko has long been one of herpetology’s biggest mysteries — literally. Presumed extinct, the animal is by far the largest gecko known to have crawled…

More than 1 million dropped from Medicaid as states start post-pandemic purge of rolls

by DAVID A. LIEB and ANDREW DeMILLO Gary Rush poses for a photo outside the Pennsylvania Capitol, June 7, 2023, in Harrisburg, Pa. Rush was demonstrating with the advocacy group…

Single hospital study finds transgender teenagers rarely choose to discontinue hormone therapy

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A three-year-long retrospective cohort study of a single Atlanta hospital’s patient population found transgender and gender-diverse teenagers rarely chose to discontinue gender-affirming hormone therapy, according to…

Intel to invest $25 bn in new Israel plant: government

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain US chip giant Intel will spend $25 billion on a new plant in Israel, officials said Sunday, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu calling it the country’s…

NASA finds key building block for life in a moon of Saturn

The icy crust at the south pole of Saturn’s moon Enceladus is seen spewing a plume of icy particles into space. The long hunt for extraterrestrials just got a big…