December 5st, 2025

Saturn's moon Mimas, photographed by the Cassini spacecraft. Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute; Cassini

Boiling oceans? New study points to violent geology on icy moons

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A study published in Nature Astronomy shows how the cyclical melting and condensation of ice shells on small moons like Mimas, Enceladus and Miranda change the pressure above their hidden oceans – to the point of boiling.
Ancient Palmyra, Syria. The competition between it and Neharda led to the destruction of the Jewish city. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Nehardea Chapter 4 and Final: The Destruction of Nehardea Between Persia and Palmyra: Who Really Destroyed the Babylonian Center of Torah?

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The article re-examines the identity of Papa bar Netzer, rejects the identification with Odintus of Palmyra, and suggests that the destruction of Nehardea in the third century CE was the result of a Palmyra invasion motivated by economic and competitive motives.
Prof. Christian Meyer presents the multi-million-unit neuromorphic computer at the TSMC conference in Amsterdam. Photo: Avi Blizovsky

Narrowing the energy efficiency gap between the brain and artificial intelligence

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At the 2025 TSMC Europe OIP conference in Amsterdam, Prof. Christian Meyer from TU Dresden presented SpiNNaker-2 – a giant neuromorphic computer, based on event processing and thin-edge hardware, designed to run artificial intelligence models in real time.
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