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2024


Listen to haunting sounds of Earth’s magnetic field flipping 41,000 years ago in eerie new animation

Listen to haunting sounds of Earth’s magnetic field flipping 41,000 years ago in eerie new animation

Evidence of this geomagnetic excursion, known as the Laschamp event, can be found in ancient lava flows, which contain unusually high ratios of certain isotopes caused by increased levels of cosmic rays.


The free-energy principle: Can one idea explain why everything exists?

The free-energy principle: Can one idea explain why everything exists?

Then the FEP outgrew the brain, being put forward as a definition of life and, inevitably, as the basis for a new kind of artificial intelligence that can reason.


Why didn’t the Vikings colonize North America?

Why didn’t the Vikings colonize North America?

"Greenland was weeks away in terms of getting goods to market [in Europe], which made for a difficult trade network operation," Kevin McAleese, a curator at Rooms Provincial Museum in St John's in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, told Live Science in an email.


Readers are curious about dark matter, plastics’ effects on pollination and Percy’s selfies

Readers are curious about dark matter, plastics’ effects on pollination and Percy’s selfies

The electrostatically charged wings of moths and butterflies could draw pollen out of nearby flowers without the insects needing to land on the blooms, Anna Gibbs reported in “Pollination via static electricity” (SN: 8/24/24, p. 13).


Smartmi Air Purifier E1 review

Smartmi Air Purifier E1 review

Lastly, we assessed its air-cleaning performance by conducting a series of tests using the Perfect Prime air particle monitor, a device capable of detecting airborne pollutants as small as 0.3 microns.


Seven newly named frog species make whistles that sound like Star Trek

Seven newly named frog species make whistles that sound like Star Trek

Male frogs use their bird-like calls to attract females, and as these newly named species live close to streams, Scherz thinks they evolved their high-pitched whistles to help their songs stand out from the din of flowing water.


Can furry pets get H5N1 bird flu and spread it to us?

Can furry pets get H5N1 bird flu and spread it to us?

A large team of university researchers from Iowa, Texas and Kansas shared this conclusion in the July issue of Emerging Infectious Diseases.


Runaway stars could influence the cosmos far past their home galaxies

Runaway stars could influence the cosmos far past their home galaxies

But in a wider search, Stoop found an astonishing 55 stars had fled at speeds faster than roughly 100,000 kilometers per hour in the past 3 million years.


Let’s learn about the Nobel Prize

Let’s learn about the Nobel Prize

In his will, Nobel left much of his fortune to create prizes to those who have done their best for humanity in the fields of physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature and peace.


New electrical stitches use muscle movement to speed up healing

New electrical stitches use muscle movement to speed up healing

Researchers already knew that pumping electricity through stitches could speed healing, but previous technologies relied on bulky external batteries.


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Astronauts could one day end up eating asteroids

Astronauts could one day end up eating asteroids

A fully operational asteroid food project would require an “industrial-sized super machine” in space, he says, but the researchers hope to begin testing the idea on a smaller scale in the coming year, starting off with coal and then moving to meteorites that have fallen to Earth, which they are currently working on a proposal for.