Revolutionary ‘sweating’ heatsink improves passive CPU cooling up to 32.65% with salt water

What you need to know A research project from China demonstrates a passive cooling method involving salt water to enhance an unknown CPU performance by up to 32.65%. Evaporating and absorbing moisture from its surroundings, the cooler’s membrane technique offers a cost-effective and long-lasting alternative. While not practical for consumer hardware, it aims to improve […]

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Fat, Sugar, Salt … You’ve Been Thinking About Food All Wrong

In the late 2000s, Carlos Monteiro noticed something strange about the food that Brazilian people were eating. The nutritionist had been poring over three decades’ worth of data from surveys that asked grocery shoppers to note down every item they bought. In more recent surveys, Monteiro noticed, Brazilians were buying way less oil, sugar, and […]

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The American West’s Salt Lakes Are Turning to Dust

This story originally appeared on High Country News and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Last summer, scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration observed dust blowing 85 miles from its source, Lake Abert and Summer Lake, two dried-up saline lakes in southern Oregon. This has happened before: Saline lakebeds are some of […]

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Eating Too Much Salt Could Cause Stress Levels to Rise

In the study, the researchers also took tissue samples from some mice after euthanizing them and found increased activity of genes that produce the proteins in the brain responsible for the stress response. “It is interesting to notice that these effects are present after a brief exposure of two weeks to a high-salt diet,” says Giuseppe […]

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Swiss Fiber TV Service ‘Salt’ Launches Alternative Apple TV 4K Remote Control for Frustrated Customers

Swiss telco Salt, which includes an Apple TV 4K in its domestic broadband TV bundle, has today launched an “alternative” bespoke ‌Apple TV‌ remote control for users of its 250+ channel television service. Costing just under 20 Swiss francs, the optional remote was reportedly developed in close collaboration with Apple, after a sizable section of […]

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