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2024 September


World’s oldest cheese found on 3500-year-old Chinese mummies

World’s oldest cheese found on 3500-year-old Chinese mummies

Based on the presence of yeast, lactic acid bacteria and proteins from ruminant milk in the samples, Qiaomei Fu at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing and her colleagues have identified the substance as a kind of kefir cheese.


A thousands-year-old log demonstrates how burying wood can fight climate change

A thousands-year-old log demonstrates how burying wood can fight climate change

If the conditions that preserved the Canadian log can be replicated — which is still unclear — buried biomass from discarded wood and sustainable harvesting could sequester up to 10 gigatons of carbon annually, the researchers estimate.


Black hole ‘blowtorch’ is causing nearby stars to explode, Hubble telescope reveals

Black hole ‘blowtorch’ is causing nearby stars to explode, Hubble telescope reveals

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This researcher studies how misinformation seeps into science and politics

This researcher studies how misinformation seeps into science and politics

For instance, Ophir automated his analysis of over 5,000 articles about the H1N1, Ebola and Zika epidemics in four major newspapers: the New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today and Wall Street Journal.


Some healthy fish have bacteria in their brains

Some healthy fish have bacteria in their brains

Lab-reared rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) brains may source more than half of bacteria from their blood and guts, suggesting that microbes from other parts of the body traverse the blood-brain barrier to colonize the organ.


How to spot tiny black holes that might pass through the solar system

How to spot tiny black holes that might pass through the solar system

Other effects that could tweak planetary orbits would also need to be accounted for, such as the solar wind of charged particles that streams out from the sun, says astrophysicist Andreas Burkert of Ludwig-Maximilians-UniversitĂ€t MĂŒnchen in Germany, who was not involved with the two studies.


‘Shazam for whales’ uses AI to track sounds heard in Mariana Trench

‘Shazam for whales’ uses AI to track sounds heard in Mariana Trench

Allen saw an opportunity to track migrating Bryde’s whales by finding similar biotwang sounds in more than 180,000 hours of underwater recordings from NOAA’s network of hydrophones mounted on the Pacific seafloor.


The Large Hadron Collider exposes quarks’ quantum entanglement

The Large Hadron Collider exposes quarks’ quantum entanglement

(CMS, another experiment at the Large Hadron Collider, also found evidence of top quark entanglement this year, in a study that has not yet been peer reviewed.)


Earth’s outer core may hold a hidden ‘doughnut’

Earth’s outer core may hold a hidden ‘doughnut’

Specifically, the slowed seismic rays may be a result of lighter elements in the outer core, study co-author Hrvoje Tkalčić, a geophysicist at Australian National University, said in a statement.


Painful paper cuts, predicted by science

Painful paper cuts, predicted by science

She loves physics for its ability to reveal the secret rules about how stuff works, from tiny atoms to the vast cosmos.


Rare skeletons up to 30,000 years old reveal when ancient humans went through puberty

Rare skeletons up to 30,000 years old reveal when ancient humans went through puberty

"I'm really excited to see this paper, as the authors are deepening our understanding of pubertal timing by tens of thousands of years," Sharon DeWitte, a biological anthropologist at the University of Colorado Boulder who was not involved in the study, told Live Science in an email.


Scientists find a long-sought electric field in Earth’s atmosphere

Scientists find a long-sought electric field in Earth’s atmosphere

Once established, the field can act as a booster for lighter ions like hydrogen, giving them enough energy to break free of Earth’s gravity and zoom away as the polar wind.