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This Tuesday (02/11/25) - Topics sensationalized!:

What Aliens Might Look Like - Larry's comments - Single Cause for Alzheimer's Disease? - Hanging Wet Washing Inside Your Home? Health Risk! - The physis of Crowd crush - Your Darkest Impulses - NASA's new SPHEREx space telescope - Airports'; The Strange Effect on Human Behavior - Weakness in lung cancer's defenses found - Plasma Guided with Ultrasonic Fields - Viking Age inscription reveals who owned buried treasure - Medieval stash of 'devil's money' found at cult site - Single-photon LiDAR delivers detailed 3D images at distance Biggest problems 'Simple' solutions - Geological 'Lost City' Deep Under The Ocean - Genomic studies off Corn sheds light on domestication 9,000 years ago - Mantis shrimp clubs filter sound to mitigate damage - Scientist discovers 16 new grasshopper species - Yellow Spotted baby turtles released in Brazil river - Cuttlefish ink overwhelms a sharks’ sense of smell - Whale song structurally similar to human language - Strain of Bird Flu in Nevada Reveals Mutation - London's underground mosquitoes evolved from Egyptian species - Intestinal worms hold key to treating inflammatory bowel disease - What if you just keep zooming in? - Researchers find a way to train an AI reasoning model for less than $50 - AI model deciphers the code in proteins telling them where to go - AI accelerates search for new tuberculosis drug targets - AI art proves machines can never emulate Human creativity - Earth's Inner Core Is Mysteriously Changing Shape - Emergency decision, James Webb telescope will study 'city-killer' asteroid - And how we could stop it - Inconvenient Element Breaks the Big Bang Model - Third of Earth's Landmass Could Soon Be Too Hot For Over 60s - US Energy Catastrophe! - Rivers flowing into the Great Barrier Reef getting more polluted - 3D printing homes on Earth, someday the Moon.
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It's like 'dead birds flying': How bird flu is spreading in the wildThat's the way one scientist puts it — referring to how infected wild birds survive long enough to spread it to birds and mammals around the world. And that's a serious risk for human health.

Airports Have a Strange Effect on Human Behavior. Here's Why.Many of us have witnessed unusual and even anti-social behaviour at an airport or on a flight.

STN member Bill Krajec

NASA's new SPHEREx space telescope to launch in February — it can do what the JWST can'tSPHEREx is slated to launch Feb. 27 on a SpaceX rocket. It is meant to map the entire night sky in infrared — something even the JWST can't exactly do.

'Fascinating' Viking Age inscription reveals who owned immensely valuable 'Galloway Hoard'A newly deciphered inscription suggests the immense "Galloway Hoard" found in Scotland over a decade ago was held in common.

Early-medieval stash of 'devil's money' found at cult site in the NetherlandsResearchers think the site in the Netherlands may have been used for pagan worship in reaction to the spread of Christianity.

'Lost City' Deep Under The Ocean Is Unlike Anything We've Ever Seen Before on EarthClose to the summit of an underwater mountain west of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, a jagged landscape of towers rises from the gloom.

Mantis shrimp clubs filter sound to mitigate damageKnown for their powerful punch, mantis shrimp can smash a shell with the force of a .22 caliber bullet. Yet, amazingly, these tough critters remain intact despite the intense shockwaves created by their own strikes.

Cuttlefish ink may overwhelm sharks’ sense of smellThe main component of common cuttlefish ink — melanin — strongly sticks to shark smell sensors, possibly explaining why the predators avoid ink.

A hopping treasure trove: Scientist discovers 16 new grasshopper speciesA Mississippi State University scientist has discovered a hopping treasure trove—16 new species of grasshoppers living in the thorny scrubs of U.S. and Mexican deserts.

New Strain of Bird Flu in Nevada Reveals a Concerning MutationAn emerging strain of highly pathogenic avian influenza has spilled over from wild birds to dairy cows in the state of Nevada, and officials at the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) and some scientists are concerned by a mutation they are seeing.

Intestinal worms could hold key to treating inflammatory bowel diseaseA four year-long research study has found that particles secreted by an intestinal worm may assist in treating inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), an ailment suffered by millions of people globally.

Academic researchers find a way to train an AI reasoning model for less than $50A small team of AI researchers from Stanford University and the University of Washington has found a way to train an AI reasoning model for a fraction of the price paid by big corporations that produce widely known products such as ChatGPT. The group has posted a paper on the arXiv preprint server describing their efforts to inexpensively train chatbots and other AI reasoning models.

AI accelerates search for new tuberculosis drug targetsTuberculosis is a serious global health threat that infected more than 10 million people in 2022. Spread through the air and into the lungs, the pathogen that causes "TB" can lead to chronic cough, chest pains, fatigue, fever and weight loss. While infections are more extensive in other parts of the world, a serious tuberculosis outbreak currently unfolding in Kansas has led to two deaths and has become one of the largest on record in the United States.

In emergency decision, James Webb telescope will study 'city-killer' asteroid 2024 YR4 before its close approach to EarthIn a rare "time-critical" decision, the James Webb Space Telescope will study the true size of the "potentially hazardous" asteroid 2024 YR4 twice over the next few months. The asteroid has a roughly 2.3% chance of impacting Earth in 2032.

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Radical Study Proposes a Single Cause to Explain Alzheimer's DiseaseA new model of Alzheimer's disease has been proposed, which could speed up efforts to understand and cure the complex condition – while bringing all manifestations of the condition under one unifying theory.

Hanging Wet Washing Up Inside Your Home Could Be a Health RiskHanging the washing out to dry in the garden has been a rare sight these last few months, with winter storms bringing freezing temperatures and 100 mph gusts of wind.

Weakness in lung cancer's defenses found—an enzyme that boosts cancer cell metabolismLung cancer is a particularly challenging form of cancer. It often strikes unexpectedly and aggressively with little warning, and it can shapeshift in unpredictable ways to evade treatment.

Scientists Found The Driving Force Behind Your Darkest ImpulsesPsychologists call it the dark triad: an intersection of three of the most malevolent tendencies of human nature – psychopathy, narcissism, and Machiavellianism.

Single-photon LiDAR delivers detailed 3D images at distances up to 1 kilometerResearchers have designed a single-photon time-of-flight LiDAR system that can acquire a high-resolution 3D image of an object or scene up to 1 kilometer away. The new system could help enhance security, monitoring, and remote sensing by enabling detailed imaging even in challenging environmental conditions or when objects are obscured by foliage or camouflage netting.

Corn's ancient ancestors are calling: Genomic encyclopedia sheds light on domestication 9,000 years agoThe domestication of maize is one of the greatest examples of humankind's impact on evolution. Early farmers' pre-industrial plant breeding choices turned corn from a nearly inedible crop into the major global food source it is today.

Yellow-spotted baby turtles are released in Brazil riverThe project aims to boost numbers of threatened tracajás turtles in Amazonas state.

Humpback whale song shown to be structurally similar to human languageLanguage has long been considered a uniquely human trait, with features that mark it out as distinct from the communication of all other species. However, research published in Science has uncovered the same statistical structure that is a hallmark of human language in humpback whale song.

Genetic study shows London's underground mosquitoes evolved from Egyptian speciesA large international team of researchers has discovered that the mosquitoes that live in London's underground subway evolved from a Middle Eastern species over thousands of years. In their paper posted on the bioRxiv preprint server, the group describes how they studied the DNA of hundreds of specimens collected from multiple countries around the world, and what they learned by doing so.

New AI model deciphers the code in proteins that tells them where to goProteins are the workhorses that keep our cells running, and there are many thousands of types of proteins in our cells, each performing a specialized function. Researchers have long known that the structure of a protein determines what it can do. More recently, researchers are coming to appreciate that a protein's localization is also critical for its function.

'I encountered the terror of never finding anything': The hollowness of AI art proves machines can never emulate genuine human intelligenceLooking at AI-generated art shows that machines may never truly understand the human mind, because there are states of mind that can never be automated.

Earth's Inner Core Is Mysteriously Changing Shape, Study RevealsThe internal, infernal machinations of our planet may be way more complex than we suspected.

Third of Earth's Landmass Could Soon Be Too Hot For Over 60sExtreme heat will reach dangerous levels – even for younger people – across an area equivalent to the size of the United States if Earth's global warming hits two degrees Celsius, scientists warned on Tuesday.

Rivers flowing into the Great Barrier Reef are getting more polluted, raising serious concernsPolluted runoff is still smothering the Great Barrier Reef, our first national assessment of water quality trends in Australian rivers has revealed. The problem on the reef is getting worse, not better, despite efforts to improve farming practices and billions of dollars committed by governments to water-quality improvements.

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