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The Electronics Cooling System 400 Million Years in the Making

Quantum mechanics used for better random numbers

Researchers have come up with a way to generate truly random numbers using quantum mechanics. The method uses photons to generate a string of random ones and zeros, and leans on the laws of physics to prove that these strings are truly random, rather than merely posing as random.

NASA likely to fly first deep space mission on less powerful rocket

Curing disease not a “sustainable business model,” Goldman Sachs analysts say

Federal officials boot Tesla from crash investigation

The National Transportation Safety Board announced Thursday that it has revoked Tesla’s status as a party to its investigation of a fatal Model X crash in Mountain View, California last month.

Trouble Detected in Infamous Dark Matter Signal

New results from a decades-old experiment were initially touted as further evidence for dark matter. But independent scientists have cast serious doubt on that claim, leaving most everyone puzzled.

Birds can see Earth’s magnetic fields

The mystery behind how birds navigate might finally be solved: it’s not the iron in their beaks providing a magnetic compass, but a newly discovered protein in their eyes that lets them ‘see’ Earth’s magnetic fields. These findings come courtesy of two new papers – one studying robins, the other zebra finches. The fancy eye protein is called Cry4, and it’s part of a class of proteins called cryptochromes – photoreceptors sensitive to blue light, found in both plants and animals.

EdgeDB: A new open-source object relational database

Databases have always been and will always be the defining piece of any technological stack. In the last decade there has been a lot of activity and interesting developments in the field. Just 10 years ago there was no MongoDB, no affordable cloud databases, and even cloud itself was a relatively new concept.

World’s first electrified road for charging vehicles opens in Sweden

A ‘Quantum Radar’ System Will Watch for Stealth Aircraft and Missiles in the Arctic