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Endurance Energy generates net power from a seafloor volcano in first subsea geothermal test

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Operates the Regional Cabled Array used to control Adélie from shore

Endurance Energy lowered a 3-ton power plant onto an active underwater volcano nearly a mile beneath the Pacific. Hooked to a natural 281°C seafloor vent on Sept. 27, it produced more electricity than it drew for 8.7 seconds — a first for a seafloor geothermal system, the company says.

Updated 4 days ago

University of Washington receives $10M federal grant to expand AI computing

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Recipient of the federal award

The federal government committed $10 million to the University of Washington in September to build a secure, on-campus AI computing platform. The NIST award funds the Husky Secure Computing Data & Infrastructure Project, which started October 1.

Updated Oct 6

First feathers discovered in 66-million-year-old dinosaur dung

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Co-sponsor of the field work

For the first time, scientists have found fossilized feathers inside dinosaur dung. The 66-million-year-old coprolite, unearthed in Montana, contains a wing feather, fluffy body feathers, bone fragments, and fish scales from an extinct aquatic bird called a hesperornithiform.

Updated Sep 27

Physicists explain why quantum oscillations persist in topological insulator ZrTe5

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Collaborated on theoretical modeling

Electrons in the topological insulator zirconium pentatelluride (ZrTe5) produced quantum oscillations in magnetic fields up to 60 tesla that did not follow the standard 1/B pattern, persisting far beyond where conventional theory says they should vanish.

Updated Sep 7