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Wealth Science Advisors LLC increased its holdings in shares of Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC - Free Report) by 50.7% during the 3rd quarter, according to its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The institutional investor owned 20,633 shares of the chip maker's stock after purchasing an additional 6,938 shares during the period. Intel makes up 1.1% of Wealth Science Advisors LLC's portfolio, making the stock its 18th biggest position. Wealth Science Advisors LLC's holdings in Intel were worth $2,481,000 as of its most recent SEC filing. Q3 Earnings Could Blow Past Consensus—Be Ready for What Comes NextOther institutional investors and hedge funds have also modified their holdings of the company. Southern Financial Group LLC raised its holdings in Intel by 0.6% during the 1st quarter. Southern Financial Group LLC now owns 14,313 shares of the chip maker's stock worth $632,000 after buying an additional 90 shares during the period. Harrell Investment Partners LLC boosted its holdings in shares of Intel by 0.4% in the second quarter.

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researcher Isaiah Santistevan led the development of three-dimensional simulations exploring how a nuclear device could deflect or disrupt an asteroid threatening Earth. Credit: Blaise Douros/LLNL Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) researchers are developing three-dimensional simulations to examine how a nuclear device could be used to deflect or potentially disrupt an asteroid threatening Earth.

Milky Way’s first microblazar candidate sits 12,000 light-years away, offering a rare ground-level lab for studying relativistic jetsA black hole 12,000 light-years away is firing a jet of plasma almost directly toward Earth. At that distance, no known or expected danger to Earth has been identified by the researchers or the institutions involved. What astronomers have actually found is rarer and more interesting than a threat. Researchers have identified IRAS 18293-0941 as a compelling candidate for the Milky Way’s first microblazar, a class of object that gives astrophysicists a close-up laboratory for studying some of the most violent physics in the galaxy. What Astronomers FoundThe discovery centers on a binary system whose black hole expels plasma jets at close to three-quarters the speed of light, pointed almost directly toward Earth. The system pairs a hot, massive star with a black hole that completes a full orbit roughly every 11.38 days. Material drawn from the companion star feeds the black hole, and some of that matter gets expelled outward as opposing jets traveling at approximately three-quarters the speed of light. Terminology matters here.