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CTV News
7 days ago
- General
- CTV News
Search continues in the St. Lawrence River for entangled North Atlantic right whale
A North Atlantic right whale dives in Cape Cod Bay in Massachusetts, March 27, 2023. (Robert F. Bukaty, NOAA permit # 21371/The Canadian Press/AP) Experts with the federal Fisheries Department and Parks Canada are searching the St. Lawrence River estuary for a North Atlantic right whale tangled in fishing gear. The Fisheries and Oceans Department said the whale was spotted Tuesday on the north shore of the river, near Quebec's Saguenay-St Lawrence Marine Park. The department says its marine mammal response partners are also looking for the whale. It remains unclear whether this is a new or previously known entanglement. The public is being asked to avoid approaching any rescue effort. North Atlantic right whales are critically endangered with fewer than 400 animals remaining in the wild. This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 29, 2025.
CBC
7 days ago
- General
- CBC
Entangled right whale seen in St. Lawrence River estuary, officials say
The Department of Fisheries and Oceans says it's aware of an entangled North Atlantic right whale on the north shore of the St. Lawrence River estuary. It says the whale was spotted in the Saguenay-St. Lawrence Marine Park on Tuesday from a vessel in the area. The department says officials are trying to find the whale and that they'll try to free it if weather and sea conditions allow. The public is being asked to avoid approaching any rescue effort. Officials say they don't yet know what type of gear the whale is caught in or where the gear came from. They added that they're looking into whether this is a new or a previously known entanglement. North Atlantic right whales are critically endangered, with fewer than 400 remaining in the wild.
Yahoo
11-05-2025
- Science
- Yahoo
Whale Presumed to Be Dead Reappears After 3 Years — New Photos Show the Surprising Development
A female whale named Calvin has been spotted by researchers off the coast of Massachusetts after disappearing for three years Scientist feared the worst after the animal was last seen with what is known as an "entanglement" injury, which happens when a whale becomes entangled in discarded fishing gear or sea debris Calvin is a North Atlantic right whale, which is one of the most endangered types of whales in the worldA whale thought to have died three years ago has suddenly reappeared off the coast of Massachusetts. Calvin, a North Atlantic right whale, was spotted in a pod of over 60 whales on April 23 during an aerial survey about 55 miles south of Martha's Vineyard, according to a May 1 news release from the New England Aquarium. 'This was the first time Calvin had been seen in almost three years, and at her last sighting, she had severe entanglement wounds that were new. A lot of people had given up hope that she was still alive after not being seen for so long,' associate research scientist Katherine McKenna said in the release. The PEOPLE Puzzler crossword is here! How quickly can you solve it? Play now! An entanglement wound occurs when a whale or other sea creature becomes entangled in discarded fishing gear or sea debris, per the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The New England Aquarium release goes on to say that Calvin was orphaned at eight months old in 1992, when her mother was killed after being struck by a large vessel. Calvin herself has given birth four times and survived eight entanglements. 'Calvin's story illustrates the resiliency of right whales,' McKenna added in the aquarium's press release. 'However, their resiliency alone is not enough for this species to recover. We must reduce the sources of human-caused mortality and injury that are preventing the right whale population from thriving.' Right whales — which originally got their name because they were considered the 'right whales' to hunt by whalers due to the fact that they float once killed instead of sinking to the sea floor — are considered critically endangered. There are currently about 370 right whales left on the planet, and only about 70 of those are females of reproductive age, according to a species info page on NOAA's website. Never miss a story — sign up for to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. Right whales are thought to live about 70 years, though the current average lifespan is about 65 for males and 45 for females due to human threats and activities. Researchers hypothesize that the female right whale population is declining faster than the male population due to the fact that females are more vulnerable to strikes from ships as well as entanglement injuries while they are recovering from birthing their calves, per NOAA. Currently, the species can solely be spotted along the Northeast coast of the U.S. and Canada. Interested in donating to help preserve the right whale population? You can donate to the World Wildlife Fund here. Read the original article on People
Fast Company
06-05-2025
- Business
- Fast Company
Cisco says its new entanglement chip could speed up practical quantum computing timeline by a decade
Cisco is the latest company to announce a quantum breakthrough. On Tuesday, the company said it has developed a prototype entanglement source chip that has the potential to cut the timeline for practical quantum computing by as much as a decade. The chip was developed in partnership with UC Santa Barbara and is novel in that it generates up to one million entangled photon pairs per second, and does so at room temperature, saving considerable resources. Additionally, Cisco is also announcing the opening of Cisco Quantum Labs, which will be the company's dedicated quantum research hub in Santa Monica, California. The chip itself was developed at Cisco's 'Outshift' incubator, where Viljoy Pandey, senior vice president at Outshift by Cisco, says the company works on projects that are 'slightly out of the comfort zone.' 'We're a networking company,' says Pandey. 'We're looking at quantum networking and quantum security.' 'Our thesis is pretty straightforward: To make [quantum computing] practical, you need to scale it out,' he adds. 'You need a network, and to have a quantum network, you need a quantum entanglement chip. That's the first building block.' In practice, the chip will allow quantum computers to be networked together—similar to existing networks for classical computers—enabling distributed quantum computing. 'There's going to be a ChatGPT moment for quantum' While other companies are focused on building quantum computers themselves, Cisco is working on the infrastructure to make quantum computing actually work—and it's attempting to get ahead of things by developing the network and security frameworks while large-scale quantum demand is still likely years away. Moreover, while some experts have mused that quantum computing could be as far as 20 years down the road, Pandey says that Cisco's breakthrough likely cuts that timeline by 'between five and 10 years.' Building the chip took between three and four years, and now Cisco is looking at moving it into production, says Reza Nejabati, head of Quantum Research and Quantum Labs at Outshift by Cisco. 'We're working toward more commercial fabrication,' he says. 'There's a whole bunch of hardware and software technology that we're bringing up. The quantum proof of concept is happening.' As for what's next, Pandey says Cisco will work on software to help build out a quantum network and continue work on a quantum roadmap. 'There's going to be a ChatGPT moment for quantum,' he says. 'We need to start putting the fundamental building blocks together to prepare.'
