Inside Climate News

MAY 8, 2021

A column highlighting climate-related studies, innovations, books, cultural events and other developments from the global warming frontier. By Katelyn Weisbrod For those who want to start a farm but live in a city, a desert or perpetually cold region, this company will help you grow produce inside a shipping container. The Greenery S is the latest generation of Freight F.

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Physics World

MAY 8, 2021

Dark matter has a warming effect on exoplanets that could be observed – according to astronomers Rebecca Leane at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Juri Smirnov at Ohio State University. The duo has calculated that the heating occurs as dark-matter particles collide with exoplanets, depositing energy as they scatter and annihilate. The astronomers say that this heating could be easily and extensively explored in the coming years, as the number of known exoplanets – planets orbiting s

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Physics World

MAY 8, 2021

In 1950 the British mathematician Alan Turing published a paper entitled “Computing machinery and intelligence” in the journal Mind ( 59 433 ). At the time, computers were still in their infancy, but the question of whether machines could think was already looming large. Repeated clashes broke out among philosophers and scientists as computers turned concepts that were previously thought-experiments into reality.

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