Microsoft testing underwater datacenters
Microsoft on Monday revealed that as the world turns to computing power in the cloud it is working to put datacenters under water.
Microsoft on Monday revealed that as the world turns to computing power in the cloud it is working to put datacenters under water.
Hardware
Feb 1, 2016
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Every year I ask the college students in the course I teach about the 14th-century Black Death to imagine they are farmers or nuns or nobles in the Middle Ages. What would their lives have been like in the face of this terrifying ...
Archaeology
Aug 11, 2022
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Sea urchins are remarkable organisms. They can quickly regrow damaged spines and feet. Some species also live to extraordinary old ages and—even more remarkably—do so with no signs of poor health, such as a decline in ...
Cell & Microbiology
May 25, 2016
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Poverty in the U.S. is often associated with deprivation, in areas including housing, employment, and education. Now a study co-authored by two MIT researchers has shown, in unprecedented geographic detail, another stark ...
Social Sciences
Apr 11, 2016
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The cost of climate change may take six months off the average human lifespan, according to a study published January 18, 2024, in the open-access journal PLOS Climate by Amit Roy from Shahjalal University of Science and ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 18, 2024
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Are eight billion humans too many for planet Earth? As we reach this milestone on November 15, most experts say the bigger problem is the overconsumption of resources by the wealthiest residents.
Environment
Nov 7, 2022
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The next time you tuck in to a tikka masala you might find yourself asking a burning question: are spices used in dishes to help stop infection?
Archaeology
Feb 4, 2021
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In the zeal to eliminate dangerous bacteria, it is possible that we are also permanently killing off beneficial bacteria as well, posits Martin Blaser, MD, Frederick H. King Professor of Medicine, professor of Microbiology ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 24, 2011
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IIASA researchers have introduced a new, simple measure for human wellbeing across countries, called the Human Life Indicator (HLI), that takes inequality into account and could replace the commonly used but error-prone Human ...
Social Sciences
Nov 6, 2018
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(Phys.org) —Early human societies consisted of small, tight-knit groups of individuals who knew each other. Members probably cooperated with one another based on prior experience and the expectation that individual beneficiaries ...