How Google is Making Private AI Practical with Homomorphic Encryption
Today we’re excited to showcase HEIR, the latest powerful tool added to our Private Computing Toolkit. HEIR is…
Gypsum crystals discovered by Zhurong on roughly 760-million-year-old Martian terrain may still contain microscopic pockets of the brine they grew from — tiny sealed samples that could preserve the chemistry of liquid water from a surprisingly recent chapter of Mars’s history.
China’s Zhurong rover crossed a thin layer of flat, hydrated rocks in southern Utopia Planitia. New analysis argues…
Warning as ‘by the wind sailors’ wash up on Poppit Sands
Pembrokeshire beaches are seeing arrivals of Velella velella, also known as by-the-wind sailors, which look like translucent blue…
The Dinosaurs That Went Extinct … Twice
But archaeological sites filled with butchered mammoth bones can give researchers a peek into more than just the…
Why the Movements of a U.S. Oil Company in Greenland Have Sparked Concern
The President has repeatedly stated that the U.S. needs to acquire Greenland as a matter of “national security.”…
The Sun Doesn’t Care About Your Flight Schedule
I’ve spent enough hours in the cockpit of single engine aircraft to have a healthy respect for weather.…
Cornwall divers rescue sharks trapped in crab pot
He added no-one wanted to see wildlife trapped and fishers did not want to lose equipment. He said:…
Astronomers discovered a reservoir of water vapor 12 billion light-years away containing 140 trillion times as much water as all of Earth’s oceans combined — surrounding a quasar that releases as much energy as a thousand trillion Suns.
In July 2011, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced that two astronomy teams had detected an enormous reservoir of…
‘Super’ El Nino could doom the Amazon Rainforest
Drought. Fire. Mass illegal logging. Now, researchers warn another “Super” El Niño could doom the Amazon rainforest. “The…
The Planet That Lied About Its Own Spin
Every so often a piece of research comes along that isn’t really about a discovery, it’s about a…
In 1958, the US moved 25 caribou to an Alaska island as emergency food for military personnel; by 2005, their herd had grown to 2,750
A herd of just 25 caribou calves released on a remote Alaskan island in 1958 to provide emergency…
Astronomers Discover an Entirely New Type of Object: a “Black Hole Star”
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