Research & Development World

A deep learning system known as Aardvark Weather offers accurate weather forecasts that are orders of magnitude quicker to generate than existing systems. Described in a Nature article (currently posted as a preprint), the system can generate predictions on four NVIDIA A100 GPUs that would otherwise take roughly 1,000 node-hours on a traditional supercomputer system…

BRAND Liquid Handling Station – Automated Wiping of Liquid Residues The BRAND Liquid Handling Station (LHS) has a compact design and plug-and-play software to easily automate routine pipetting tasks, enhancing accuracy, precision, and reproducibility. A new feature of the LHS is its new automated tip wiping function, which ensures more reliable results. The ability to…

A single 192-core, AmpereOne-powered box from ALAFIA Supercomputers has replaced the University of Miami’s crowded HPC cluster. The result? An up to 10x speedup in complex molecular dynamics simulations. That acceleration trimmed runtimes for complex 50-nanosecond simulations of PROTAC ternary systems from over 24 hours to under six hours. This speedup allows researchers to iterate…

Most people bring a blanket to the beach to soak up the sun — this “blanket” soaks up pollution instead. Researchers at Ohio State University have created a solar-activated “nanomat” that floats on water like a beach mat, but instead of providing comfort, it goes to work cleaning up harmful contaminants. The lightweight, reusable material…

The AI race hinges not just on algorithms and silicon, but increasingly on raw power. The International Energy Agency (IEA) projects that global electricity consumption by data centers will more than double by 2030, with AI-specific data centers alone expected to quadruple in consumption. By then, the energy used for AI processing in the U.S.…

In a bid to decentralize and secure pharma supply chains, Ginkgo Bioworks and a consortium of partners have been awarded a $29 million contract by the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H). The two-year project, WHEAT, aims to develop a novel manufacturing platform using wheat germ cell-free expression systems (CFPS). The goal is to…

The discovery of lariocidin could be the first completely new class of antibiotics in nearly 30 years. Unearthed from soil collected in a Canadian lab technician’s garden, this lasso-shaped peptide hits drug-resistant Gram-negatives by locking onto a ribosomal site no marketed drug touches, wiping out pan-resistant pathogens while sparing mammalian cells. A paper in Nature…

TSMC has flipped the switch on its performance-tuned N3P process, bringing the 3-nm node into volume production after Q4 2024 pilot runs. Next up is the higher-voltage, speed-focused N3X variant, now slated to sample by Q3–Q4 2025. “N3P started production late last year, in 2024,” Kevin Zhang, TSMC’s deputy COO, told Tom’s Hardware at the…

Blue Origin broke into the military’s most critical space launch market Friday, securing a multi-billion dollar share alongside SpaceX and United Launch Alliance in new U.S. Space Force contracts worth up to $13.7 billion designed to ensure access to orbit for national security missions through 2032. The contract awards are a significant expansion of the…