'Beautiful Math Equation' Found in Crop Circle
Posted on March 29, 2023
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| Trudie Dory
A strange 300-foot pattern of circles and lines recently appeared in a farmer's field in the English countryside near Wiltshire, a place long associated with mysteries such as crop circles and Stonehenge. According to crop circle researcher Lucy Pringle the pattern contains a hidden code for a complex mathematical equation called Euler's Identity, considered by many to be among the world's most beautiful and elegant theorems.
This is not the first time that images and concepts from advanced mathematics have appeared in farmers' fields.
[Read More]10 species you can kiss goodbye
Posted on March 29, 2023
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| Trudie Dory
Vanishing Species?Think the polar bear has it bad? Here are 10 critters that are even worse off than our favorite threatened Arctic resident. Listed on the International Union for Conservation of Nature's (IUCN) Red List as critically endangered, meaning they face an extremely high risk of extinction in the immediate future, these animals may not live to see the end of the next decade without the a similar effort of human intervention that brought them to the brink in the first place.
[Read More]A French Teenager Turned the Bible and Quran into DNA and Injected Them into His Body
Posted on March 29, 2023
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| Arica Deslauriers
A kid in France transcribed parts of the Hebrew book of Genesis and the Arabic-language Quran, into DNA and injected them into his body — one text into each thigh.
Adrien Locatelli, a 16-year-old high school student, posted a paper Dec. 3 on the preprint server OS, in which he claimed, "It is the first time that someone injects himself macromolecules developed from a text."
Locatelli, a student at the boarding school Lycée les Eaux Claires in Grenoble, France, told Live Science that he didn’t need any special equipment for his project.
[Read More]Biblical story of Jesus possibly explained by excavations in his hometown of Nazareth
Posted on March 29, 2023
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| Patria Henriques
The town of Nazareth in modern-day Israel is steeped in mystique, as it is thought to be the place where Jesus was raised. And now, a new study has uncovered more of its secrets, finding that the people of Nazareth rejected Roman culture and even revolted against the Roman Empire around A.D. 70.
The researcher of the study also found that Nazareth was likely larger than thought during the time of Jesus.
[Read More]Champagne Corks Can Be Dangerous
Posted on March 29, 2023
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| Arica Deslauriers
If you pop the cork on some bubbly this New Year's Eve, keep an eye out. There's three times the pressure of a car tire bottled up in champagne.
"Eye injuries from flying champagne corks, especially around the holidays, are fairly common," said Dr. Mark Melson, assistant professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at the Vanderbilt Eye Institute. "Opening the bottles properly might save some folks a trip to the emergency room or a visit to their eye doctor.
[Read More]Great White Sharks in Australia Get a Concert from Kiss. But Will the Sharks Care?
Posted on March 29, 2023
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| Trudie Dory
Veteran rock band Kiss has played for millions of people around the world, over more than four decades. But today (Nov. 18), Kiss performs for a new type of audience in waters off the coast of Australia: great white sharks.
The band will take the stage on a boat in the Indian Ocean and blast their music through underwater speakers. A small group of eight humans will rock out on a second boat with a glass viewing panel, so they can see the sharks that swim up to investigate the concert.
[Read More]Mummy Identification Still Uncertain Science
Posted on March 29, 2023
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| Mittie Cheatwood
King Tutankhamun is the only 18th Dynasty pharaoh whose mummy has been identified with certainty, says a new study into some of the most famous ancient Egyptian royal mummies.
King Tut’s great-grandparents, Yuya and Thuya, have also been identified beyond doubt, while different opinions appear to circulate about the identity of almost all the other mummies.
Published in the Yearbook of Physical Anthropology, the research reviews methods and pitfalls used to name the mummies of the famous 18th Dynasty, which includes royals such as Amenhotep III, Akhenaton, Nefertiti and Tutankhamun.
[Read More]Mysterious Egyptian Spiral Seen on Google Maps
Posted on March 29, 2023
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| Fernande Dalal
To some viewers, it looks like a landing strip for extraterrestrial spacecraft — or perhaps the portal to a parallel universe, if not an ancient monument to a benevolent deity who had a keen eye for design and symmetry.
But what people are actually seeing in the desolate reaches of the Egyptian desert, just a short distance from the shores of the Red Sea, is in fact an environmental art installation.
[Read More]Neutron star 'mountains' may be blocking our view of mysterious gravitational waves
Posted on March 29, 2023
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| Arica Deslauriers
(opens in new tab)Neutron stars are covered with "mountains" only fractions of a millimeter tall, new research shows, meaning these bumps are hundreds of times smaller than previous estimates had suggested.
Neutron stars are compact stellar objects, similar in size to a large city with a diameter of around 6.2 miles (10 kilometers), that weigh at least 1.4 solar masses (1.4 times the weight of the sun). They are born from the explosive deaths of stars that weigh between 10 and 25 solar masses.
[Read More]Pig Journeys Reveal Human Migration Patterns
Posted on March 29, 2023
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| Patria Henriques
Pigs made a harrowing journey about 3,500 years ago to the most remote islands of the Pacific alongside their ancient human owners, and that partnership is revealing how the region was colonized.
The popular historical thinking has been that the entire pioneering group--humans, pigs and all of their additional living and cultural accoutrements--embarked from Taiwan as a single unit. A new DNA study of ancient and modern pigs suggests the geography is not so simple.
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