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Fossil shows an amphibian that lived fully in the Triassic sea

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A paper published October 26 in Nature Ecology & Evolution describes a 237-million-year-old armored amphibian from Guizhou, China. Its authors say the animal grew up drinking seawater, something no living amphibian does.

Updated Nov 2

New method could slash computer memory energy use by orders of magnitude

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Every time a computer flips a bit from 0 to 1, it spends energy. Researchers at the University of Edinburgh have found a way to make that flip dramatically cheaper by treating the magnetic pulse that does the switching as a math optimization problem.

Updated Sep 8