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BEIJING, April 29 (Xinhua) -- China has approved joining a convention on establishing the Square Kilometer Array (SKA), with the decision passed at the 28th session of the Standing Committee of the 13th National People's Congress, the top legislature, on Thursday.
China adopts decision to jointly build SKA radio telescope 1 2021-04-29 23:05:52Xinhua Editor : Wang Fan ECNS App Download China has approved joining a convention on establishing the Square Kilometer Array (SKA), with the decision passed at the 28th session of the Standing Committee of the 13th National People's Congress, the top legislature, on Thursday. The move will contribute to research on radio astronomy, basic physics and information science, as well as solving major scientific problems. The SKA will be the world's largest radio telescope array, with mu...
South Africa CHPC's Lengau supercomputer and OpenStack Production Cloud are redefining their path forward for computational resources. Courtesy of the University of South Africa. Read Time: The South Africa Center for High Performance Computing (CHPC) has joined the ranks of HPC centers who are converging their supercomputing and cloud infrastructures. The 1.3 petaFLOPS Lengau supercomputer has been the fastest machine on the continent. Adding its OpenStack Production Cloud in early 2020 allowed users to begin taking advantage of orchestrated general purpose computing and storage resour...
April 21, 2021 at 12:00 pm Astronomers have been arguing about the rate of the universe’s expansion for nearly a century. A new independent method to measure that rate could help cast the deciding vote. For the first time, astronomers calculated the Hubble constant — the rate at which the universe is expanding — from observations of cosmic flashes called fast radio bursts, or FRBs. While the results are preliminary and the uncertainties are large, the technique could mature into a powerful tool for nailing down the elusive Hubble constant, researchers report April 12 at arXiv.org. Ultim...
Recent research has revealed that Venus might have looked like Earth for three billion years, with vast oceans that could have been friendly to life leading to recent speculation that it may have been the first life-bearing planet. A conjecture spurred by the announcement in September of 2020 by an international group of researchers reported in the journal Nature Astronomy, that there may be a whiff of life in the famously inhospitable planet’s atmosphere in the form of traces of phosphine, a gas that is associated with life where there is no oxygen. Plenty of time for evolution to ki...