The National Supercomputing Center in Shenzhen unveiled LineShine, a massive system that clocked in at a mind-boggling 2.198 exaflops.
Out in deep space, astronomers identified two rare "super-puff" exoplanets, TOI-791 b and TOI-791 c, located 1,110 light-years away.
Despite being roughly the size of Jupiter, these gas giants have an average density lower than cotton candy.
Meanwhile, a massive 1,200-kilometer deep-sea "whale-fall superhighway" discovered in the Indian Ocean uncovered nearly 500 fossilized and recent whale graves, including extinct species dating back over five million years.
Medical science also saw critical advancements, notably with independent research teams in Europe and China developing the world's first functional nuclear clocks—precision timepieces poised to completely surpass modern atomic clocks.
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June delivered a spectacular wave of breakthrough scientific and technological milestones, spanning from the depths of Earth's oceans to the far reaches of the cosmos.
Geopolitical and tech circles are heavily focusing on China’s major achievement in high-performance computing. The National Supercomputing Center in Shenzhen unveiled LineShine, a massive system that clocked in at a mind-boggling 2.198 exaflops. This architectural marvel broke records by reaching exascale performance using entirely domestic central processing units (CPUs) rather than graphics processors, ending a nine-year stretch of U.S. dominance at the top of the global rankings, News.Az reports, citing Anadolu Agency.
Out in deep space, astronomers identified two rare "super-puff" exoplanets, TOI-791 b and TOI-791 c, located 1,110 light-years away. Despite being roughly the size of Jupiter, these gas giants have an average density lower than cotton candy. Closer to home, NASA's Perseverance rover detected vital macromolecular organic carbon compounds within an ancient river channel on Mars, marking another step forward in the search for environments that once supported ancient microbial life.
Back on Earth, history was rewritten on multiple fronts. Ancient DNA recovered near Siberia's Lake Baikal pushed back the known timeline of human plague infections by 1,700 years, revealing a fatal outbreak that occurred 5,500 years ago. Meanwhile, a massive 1,200-kilometer deep-sea "whale-fall superhighway" discovered in the Indian Ocean uncovered nearly 500 fossilized and recent whale graves, including extinct species dating back over five million years.
Medical science also saw critical advancements, notably with independent research teams in Europe and China developing the world's first functional nuclear clocks—precision timepieces poised to completely surpass modern atomic clocks. Furthermore, an experimental pancreatic cancer drug targeting a prominent tumor-growth mutation successfully doubled patient survival rates in recent clinical trials, bringing fresh hope to oncology fields.
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