BBC’s Walking with Dinosaurs brings Spinosaurus’s water-loving nature to life

Palaeontologists are finding more dinosaur remains than ever before, and with new technology they can now peer inside these creatures’ brains, understand their sensory anatomy and reconstruct whole skeletons from fragmentary remains. Applying novel techniques to a single Spinosaurus skeleton discovered in Morocco, researchers have revealed that this dinosaur was perfectly adapted to an aquatic…

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How to avoid a puncture on the Moon

Padraig Belton Technology Reporter Getty Images The Apollo mission lunar rovers were lightweight vehicles Going back to the Moon after half a century, and then to Mars, literally means reinventing the wheel. After all, Mars is a long way to come back if you get a flat. “One thing you cannot have is a puncture,”…

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Fueling seamless AI at scale

Silicon’s mid-life crisis AI has evolved from classical ML to deep learning to generative AI. The most recent chapter, which took AI mainstream, hinges on two phases—training and inference—that are data and energy-intensive in terms of computation, data movement, and cooling. At the same time, Moore’s Law, which determines that the number of transistors on…

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