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The Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) is the most advanced, powerful and robust collection of integrated advanced digital resources and services in the world. It is a single virtual system that scientists can use to interactively share computing resources, data and expertise. An international team of researchers used resources from XSEDE to develop components that would serve as the basis for "Illustris," the most ambitious simulation of galaxy formation ever done. Here, a large-scale view of the simulation volume, centered on the most massive galaxy cluster in the simulation at the present cosmic time. Dark matter density is shown in blue and purple, and the velocity of normal matter (gas) is shown in red and orange.
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Princeton University researchers have built a new computer chip that promises to boost performance of data centers that lie at the core of online services from email to social media. Data centers -- essentially giant warehouses packed with computer servers - enable cloud-based services, such as Gmail and Facebook, as well as store the staggeringly voluminous content available via the internet. Surprisingly, the computer chips at the hearts of the biggest servers that route and process information often differ little from the chips in smaller servers or everyday personal computers. By designing their chip specifically for massive computing systems, the researchers say they can substantially increase processing speed while slashing energy needs.
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If you worry the Internet of Things is bollocks and that the industry's just milking an old idea, think again: research outfit Arcluster has declared that the “Connected Cow and Farm” market will become a US$10.75 billion concern in 2021, a rather nice jump from today's $1.27 billion.…
When Henry Molaison had his hippocampus removed, it left him with a profound memory deficit. Does Luke Dittrich, the surgeon's grandson, have other secrets to reveal?
Poor Henry Molaison! In 1953, when he was in his 20s and suffering from devastating and seemingly intractable epilepsy, he was the subject of a piece of bravura experimental surgery which removed a large region of his brain. The treatment mitigated the epilepsy but also left him with a profound memory deficit. Although he could remember much about his life before the surgery, he could remember nothing after it for more than a few minutes. For Molaison, “every day is alone in itself”, wrote Brenda Milner, the psychologist who first studied him.
Related: Henry Molaison: the amnesiac we'll never forget
Dittrich is not so much eulogising as digging a grave for his grandfather's reputation
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The Chinese space program has taken a massive step forward as the country unveiled its design for a rover to scoot across the surface of Mars.…
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the ephemeral tapestry draws inspiration from japanese representations of flowers, which symbolize the changing of seasons and the passage of time.
The post 600,000 blooms form japanese-themed flower carpet at brussels' grand place appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.
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Matias Faldbakken, from Portrait Portrait Of Of A A Generation Generation, 2012, Installation view, Office for Contemporary Art Norway, Oslo, SOMF/IV 2012-001/8
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jantzen's efforts attempt to increase the appeal of basic solar technology by incorporating function into a single, sculptural unit.
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teresa freitas captures the spirit of summer while reflecting on the ever-popular pantone theme.
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Today, the U.S. National Park Service turns 100 years old. The National Park Service has been celebrating all year by organizing over 100 BioBlitzes to document the species living in our national parks, recreation areas, monuments, and historic sites. In addition to the BioBlitzes, NPS has been working with iNaturalist to keep track of biodiversity records for the entire year in a servicewide project. Four days ago, the project passed the 100,000 records mark just in time for the centennial anniversary.
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Collectively, they have recorded more than 10,600 species including common and easily photographed species such as the Western Fence Lizard and American Robin as well as more than 600 threatened species (note: the locations of threatened species are automatically obscured).
“Citizen scientists are contributing so much more information about biodiversity than the NPS could possibly hope to collect on its own, especially when it comes to under-studied creatures, like insects. There is tremendous power in a citizen armed with a smartphone and a curiosity about nature working together with an online community of naturalists to explore our national parks,” said Simon Kingston, a Data Ranger with the National Park Service.
Anyone visiting national park lands with a digital camera can turn their photos of plants, animals, and fungi into useful data. Even if you don't know exactly which species you saw, members of the iNaturalist community work together to crowdsource identifications. The National Park Service will use the verified records from iNaturalist to update NPSpecies, its internal database that tracks all of the species recorded in each park.
National Geographic Society has partnered with the National Park Service for the last 10 years to do BioBlitzes in different national parks. You can read more about the history of NPS/NatGeo BioBlitzes here and the BioBlitz origin story here.
Explore more:
Explore all of the records on iNaturalist (not just the National Parks)
Join the NPS Servicewide project once you've created an account with iNaturalist.
Download the iNaturalist app for Android or iOS.
Getting started with iNaturalist
Carrie Seltzer is a Program Manager for BioBlitz at the National Geographic Society.
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Weevil (Steremnius tuberosus) collected in Pacific Rim National Park Reserve, British Columbia, Canada, and photographed at the Centre for Biodiversity Genomics (sample ID: BIOUG22155-B12; specimen record: http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/Public_RecordView?processid=SSPRB1272-15; BIN: http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/Public_BarcodeCluster?clusteruri=BOLD:ACD0255)
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Imogen Bird Some of the greatest destruction to Italy's artistic heritage has been in Amatrice, voted one of its most beautiful towns
Art experts fear numerous historic Italian buildings and their contents were damaged in Wednesday's earthquake, across a region where almost every hilltop town and village has beautiful churches and monuments.
The Dutch classicist David Rijser, an expert on the culture of Abruzzo, said there had been damage to the central region's many churches, funeral monuments and museums. “It has been a true drama, there is a lot that has been lost,” he told Dutch radio.
Related: Italy quake toll rises as rescuers struggle to free people from rubble
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