By combining their temperature measurements with the planet’s mass and models of how giant planets cool over time, the astronomers effectively rewound its thermal history.
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Sam Macdonald,
Scientific American,
1 July 2026
Blocking the details As with other types of data, nuanced measurements are essential for scientific research that clearly describes problems and identifies solutions that are most likely to be effective.
Austria has just launched one of the world’s 100 fastest supercomputers, which is equipped with 1,088 Nvidia chips and can carry out 45,110 trillion calculations per second.
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Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
3 July 2026
The rare disruptions that insurance companies struggle to factor into their calculations aren’t so rare anymore, Oliver Bäte observes.
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Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson,
semafor.com,
3 July 2026
After a year and 40 pages of dense computations, the trio posted their paper in July 2025.
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Leila Sloman,
Quanta Magazine,
26 June 2026
Instead, consciousness is an outcome of information processing, and thus in principle it can be generated in any number of physical substrates so long as those substrates can support the requisite informational patterns, structures and computations.
Montreal was one of the cities that pulled out of the process after balking at increasing cost estimates.
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Ian Nicholas Quillen,
Forbes.com,
4 July 2026
These estimates determine their eligibility for premium subsidies — and some people, especially those with volatile incomes, may guess wrong, Cox said.
During the temporary closure, multiple third-party entities conducted comprehensive evaluations of center operations, including biomedical equipment reviews and water quality testing.
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Paula Wethington,
CBS News,
30 June 2026
Some of those evaluations will be classified while others can be standardized by scientists for open international use.
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