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Monday, April 15, 2024

Live Science-Latest Science News

"World's fastest camera captures footage at 156 trillion frames a second."

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A camera lens with lens flair giving

World's fastest camera captures footage at 156 trillion frames per second

By Edd Gent published 

This camera can generate clips of breathtakingly quick processes — and could help scientists create ultrafast magnetic memory and pioneering ultrasonic medical treatments.

ENGINEERING
(Left) a detailed image of the moon (Right) Schematic illustration with a gravity gradient map of the lunar nearside and a cross-section showing two ilmenite-bearing cumulate downwellings from lunar mantle overturn.

What happened when the moon 'turned itself inside out' billions of years ago?

By Robert Lea published 

"For the first time, we have physical evidence showing us what was happening in the moon's interior during this critical stage of its evolution, and that's really exciting."

THE MOON
illustration of blue and pink cancer cells

Cancer patients can now be 'matched' to best treatment with DNA and lab-dish experiments

By Diana Azzam published 

Identifying the most effective cancer treatment for a given patient from the get-go can help improve outcomes.

CANCER
An illustration of a lightweight black hole (gray) and a neutron star (orange). The emitted gravitational waves are shown in colors from dark blue to cyan.

Gravitational waves reveal 1st-of-its-kind merger between neutron star and mystery object

By Sharmila Kuthunur published 

Ripples in space-time point to the merger of a neutron star with another mystery object. The object, which falls right within the mass-gap range, sheds light on a long-sought, murky realm.

COSMOLOGY
The Pilbara coast of Western Australia flying towards the Gorgon liquefied natural gas (LNG) and carbon capture and storage (CCS) facility, operated by Chevron Corp., at Barrow Island, Australia, on Monday, July 24, 2023.

Drowned land off Australia was an Aboriginal hotspot in last ice age, 4,000 stone artifacts reveal

By Emma Bryce published 

The landscape features in the dreamtime stories of Australia's Indigenous people.

ARCHAEOLOGY
Rewild the World at Bedtime by Emily Hawkins, illustrated by Ella Beech © Wide Eyed Editions, 2024

'Most of Gorongosa's large animals had died': How an African paradise for nature recovered from the ravages of war

By Alexander McNamara published 

"Where once there had been more than two thousand elephants, now there were fewer than two hundred."

ELEPHANTS
an open bottle of colorful supplements spilled onto a table next to oranges, apples, grapes and blueberries

3 pervasive myths about supplements, as explained by an expert

By Katie Suleta published 

They act kind of like drugs, but they aren't regulated like them.

SUPPLEMENTS & VITAMINS
Prominences leap out of the sun during the April 8 total solar eclipse.

Space photo of the week: NASA spots enormous pink 'flames' during total solar eclipse. What are they?

By Brandon Specktor published 

Fiery pink towers could be seen erupting from the sun during the total solar eclipse on April 8. What are they?

THE SUN
A man laying in bed snoring

Can you hear yourself snore?

By Jennifer Nalewicki published 

Are snorers immune to the sounds of their own snores?

SLEEP
Dodo in the birds exhibition room at the Natural History Museum on 19th January 2024 in London, United Kingdom.

Are we in a 6th mass extinction?

By Patrick Pester published 

If we continue on our current trajectory, the sixth mass extinction is inevitable and the times we're living through now will be part of that geological period.

ANIMALS
Bull shark with school of fish at Beqa Lagoon Fiji.

There's 5 times as many bull sharks off Alabama now — but don't worry about shark bites

By Melissa Hobson published 

Juvenile bull shark numbers have significantly increased in Mobile Bay, Alabama, as waters warm — but swimmers don't need to worry, researchers say.

SHARKS
Close-up of a Sumatran tiger in a jungle.

Is the Javan tiger back from extinction? New study ignites controversy.

By Patrick Pester published 

Geneticists have critiqued a study suggesting extinct Javan tigers are still alive, but the search is just beginning.

TIGERS
AI concept, microchip motherboard glitch pattern, quantum computer.

'Jailbreaking' AI services like ChatGPT and Claude 3 Opus is much easier than you think

By Drew Turney published 

AI researchers found they could dupe an AI chatbot into giving a potentially dangerous response to a question by feeding it a huge amount of data it learned from queries made mid-conversation.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
A "ring of fire" will be seen in the Pacific Ocean and South America, similar to the one witnessed in the U.S. Southwest on Oct. 14, 2023.

Annular solar eclipse 2024: Everything you need to know about the next solar eclipse

By Jamie Carter published 

After the Great North American Eclipse comes a long "ring of fire" annular solar eclipse that can be seen in some iconic destinations.

THE SUN
Primeval caveman wearing animal skin standing in his cave at night, holding torch with fire looking at drawings on the walls at night. Cave art with petroglyphs, rock paintings.

Why did Europe's hunter-gatherers disappear?

By Patrick Pester published 

There are many mysteries surrounding Europe's hunter-gatherers, but farming played a role in their demise.

ARCHAEOLOGY
older man with greyin beard wears a swim cap and smiles as he's swimming at a public pool

Exercise may reverse sign of aging by 'flushing' fat from muscle

By Jennifer Zieba published 

Researchers say they've identified a kind of fat that plays a major role in aging and can be controlled with short-term exercise.

EXERCISE
An artist's conception of a "sneeze" of dust, gas and magnetic energy expelled from a baby star.

There's a baby star 'sneezing' in the constellation Taurus — and it could solve a longstanding cosmic mystery

By Sharmila Kuthunur published 

In a rare observation, scientists found a baby star "sneezing" gas, dust and magnetic energy out of its disk. This behavior could help solve a longstanding mystery about how stars form without tearing themselves apart.

COSMOLOGY
Antique photograph of Blackfeet Indians.

Ancient Indigenous lineage of Blackfoot Confederacy goes back 18,000 years to last ice age, DNA reveals

By Kristina Killgrove published 

A new DNA study of living and historical members of the Blackfoot Confederacy in the U.S. and Canada suggests that they share a lineage with people from the last ice age.

ARCHAEOLOGY
A magnified view of the prosthesis before (left) and after (right) conservation. In the left image, we see a) traces of shiny, yellow metal (most likely gold) covering the woolen pad; and b) a trace of green corrosion indicating copper. In the right image, we see c) felted fabric that fits into the nasal cavity; d) a loop through which a white linen thread passed and connected the fabric to the metal plate; e) a metal plate to replace the absent hard palate.

'Exceptional' prosthesis of gold, silver and wool helped 18th-century man live with cleft palate

By Soumya Sagar published 

Archaeologists in Poland have found the 300-year-old remains of a man who had a prosthetic that helped him live with a condition called cleft palate.

ARCHAEOLOGY
Trilobite fossils recovered from the Transantarctic Mountains.

Mass die-off half a billion years ago caused by shifting tectonic plates, ancient rocks reveal

By Stephanie Pappas published 

A large extinction in the midst of the expansion of life during the Cambrian period was caused by the tectonics of a supercontinent, new research argues.

ARCHAEOLOGY

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