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This Tuesday (11/05/24) - Topics sensationalized!:
Valencia under a sea of mud - Vast ocean 400-miles inside the Earth - Parasitoid Wasps - Semaglutide Effective at Treating Arthritis - Drug to fight treatment-resistant malaria - Married people are less likely to be depressed - Neuralink Competitor Restores Vision in Blind Patients With Eye Implant - Mexico pressing ahead with GMO corn, glyphosate bans - Teens Solve Impossible 2,000-year-Old Pythagorean Theorem - Phone app for lucid dreams, and the App - Google Search is Falling Apart - YouTube Testing New Homepage That Removes Dates And View Counts - Wanli megadrought kills Ming Dynasty - Ancient Mayan city discovered in Mexico jungle - Camouflage - Fungi Foundation - Do Spiders Dream Like Humans Do? - Stung By This Critter - Sensationalized Black Hole image was hype - Black hole in early universe appears to be consuming matter at over 40 times its theoretical limit - China sends young astronauts into space - India space program, sample-return mission to moon's south pole with ice samples - Catch Up With Oumuamua? - Voyager 1 is Forced to Rely on its Low Power Radio - $10,000 If You Can Beat My Rock, Paper, Scissors - “AI Scientist” can “fully automate discovery” - effects of Atlantic circulation on the Amazon rainforest - Single Rule Underpins All of Physics.
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Earth from space: Watch Valencia disappear under a sea of mud during deadly Spanish floodsSatellite images show the true extent of the flash flooding in Valencia during a freak weather event that killed at least 214 people across Spain.

STN member Hugh Hutner

Earth has a vast interior ocean, 400-miles under our feet, that creates 'ringwoodite' gemsAided by a mineral called ringwoodite, researchers found evidence of a vast ocean trapped inside Earth, deep beneath the United States.

STN member Laurenn Rowland

Where There’s Joy in a Terror BirdIn Colombia, a fossil-collecting rancher has found a giant, flightless killer from 13 million years ago — and a missing link to the region’s evolutionary history.

STN member Paul Christopherson

A New Study of Over 10,000 People Revealed Regular Physical Activity Is Linked to Larger Healthier BrainsBrain volume are all predictors of better neurological health as we age, while neurodegenerative diseases are often found in less-dense brains

Semaglutide So Effective at Treating Arthritis That Patients Were “More or Less Were Treated Out of the Study”In a groundbreaking new study, Ozempic was found to be so effective at treating arthritis that people no longer needed treatment.

Wedded bliss: Married people are less likely to be depressed, 7-country analysis suggestsUnmarried people may be about 80% more likely to have depressive symptoms than those who are married, suggests an analysis of more than 100,000 individuals across 7 countries, published in Nature Human Behaviour.

Mexico pressing ahead with GMO corn, glyphosate bans, says key officialMexico is sticking to a plan to stop importing genetically modified corn and a ban on a widely used herbicide, a senior official told Reuters, doubling down on a policy that has pleased green advocates but alarmed industry leaders.

A phone app could help people have lucid dreamsNew experiments show that an app developed by researchers can boost snoozing users’ likelihood of knowing when they are having a dream.

Lucid Experiment - Apps on Google PlayCognitive Neuroscience Lab Lucid Dreaming experiment

Fungi FoundationThe Fungi Foundation facilitates the exploration, discovery, documentation, conservation and preservation of the world’s most important kingdom, fungi.

India targets 2028 for Chandrayaan-4 sample-return mission to moon's south poleIndia is eyeing a 2028 launch for its Chandrayaan-4 moon sample-return mission, followed by an uncrewed lunar lander and rover in collaboration with Japan.

Voyager 1 is Forced to Rely on its Low Power RadioVoyager 1 was launched waaaaaay back in 1977. I would have been 4 years old then! It’s an incredible achievement that technology that was built THAT long ago is still working. Yet here we are in 2024, Voyager 1 and 2 are getting older. Earlier this week, NASA had to turn off one of the … Continue reading "Voyager 1 is Forced to Rely on its Low Power Radio"

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New drug could help fight against treatment-resistant malariaAn international team of researchers have developed a promising new drug that could help combat the spread of treatment-resistant malaria.

Neuralink Competitor Restores Vision in Blind Patients With Eye ImplantScience Corporation says its retinal implant restored central vision in patients who were legally blind in a clinical trial.

2 U.S. Teens Solve Impossible 2,000-year-Old Pythagorean Theorem With TrigonometryIn a remarkable achievement, high school students Calcea Johnson and Ne’Kiya Jackson from Louisiana have done what was thought to be impossible for

YouTube Reportedly Testing New Homepage That Removes Dates And View CountsIn a recent experiment, YouTube is testing a layout for its homepage that excludes view counts and upload dates for videos. This new design limits vis

Collapse of Ming Dynasty actually began with Wanli megadrought, tree-ring research showsClimate change has a profound impact on historical societal transformations. A recent study by Chinese researchers has found that the collapse of the Ming Dynasty, one of the most important dynasties in Chinese history, may have been triggered by the Wanli megadrought, decades earlier than previous thought.

phys.org/news/2024-11-black-hole-early-universe-consuming.html

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