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The US believes North Korea fired its first intercontinental ballistic missile on Tuesday, two U.S. officials confirmed to NBC News — a significant step forward in Pyongyang’s weapons program. The ICBM, which is believed to be “two-stage,” officials said, would …

CPUs vastly slowed in performance scaling around 1997-2004. You can see it with the lines showing flat clock speeds and performance per clock. However, you already knew it from the lack of real performance improvement in laptops and desktop computers. …

For decades, loops of genetic material known as circular RNA were considered a kind of genetic accident. But scientists have given them new attention in recent years, and a set of papers published this month suggests some of them actually …

Spacex has around 500 job openings on its careers site. Panasonic plans to hire 2,000 people this year to make batteries for the Tesla Model 3 at the Gigafactory located east of Sparks. They’re looking to fill positions as material …

China’s Bohai Shipyard has built a new large-scale plant to mass produce nuclear submarines. Western production lines for the most part can only build one submarine at a time, and only the US is capable of building two submarines simultaneously, …

In the second half of the 20th century, the mass use of fertilizer was part of an agricultural boom called the “green revolution” that was largely credited with averting a global food crisis. Now, the challenge of feeding the world …

Graphene-oxide membranes have attracted considerable attention as promising candidates for new filtration technologies. Now the much sought-after development of making membranes capable of sieving common salts has been achieved. New research demonstrates the real-world potential of providing clean drinking water …