How Living on Mars Would Destroy the Human Body to the Govt's Shift on UFO Phenomenon
Today’s stories include Turbocharging the search for extraterrestrial intelligence to astrophysicist Michio Kaku on The Shift in the UFO Phenomenon and much more.
Machine learning could turbocharge the search for extraterrestrial intelligence--The search for alien life is fundamentally a data sorting challenge. A new paper suggests machine learning could be a possible solution, reports The Verge. "There’s a particular section of the radio band, at around the 1420MHz range, that SETI researchers are interested in. Known as the hydrogen line, this is important to astronomers because it’s the frequency at which neutral hydrogen gives off radiation, so it’s key to studying all sorts of astronomical targets."
How living on Mars would warp the human body--Cold, bathed in radiation and far from Earth, life on Mars would strain our mental and bodily limits, reports Salon. "Our bodies evolved over millions of years in tandem with Earth's gravitational pull. Separating ourselves can cause intense effects on our physiology."
The hunt for dark matter: The universe's mysterious gravitational glue--In pursuit of dark matter, researchers are doing everything from burying vats of xenon deep underground to sending a balloon floating above the Antarctic. When will their creativity pay off? asks New Scientist.
‘Unbelievable’ Spinning Particles Probe Nature’s Most Mysterious Force, reports Scientific American. The strong force holds our atoms together. Scientists may have observed its small-scale fluctuations for the first time, reports Scientific American./
How Scientists Are Using AI to Talk to Animals, reports Scientific American. Portable sensors and artificial intelligence are helping researchers decode animal communication—and begin to talk back to nonhumans.
A History of Confusing Stuff in the Sky--Spy balloons and UFOs, reports Garrett M. Graff for The Atlantic. "Balloons have dogged U.S. aerial defenses, confounded fighter pilots, and driven UFO sightings for more than 75 years."
Billions of coronavirus mutations offer a new insight into evolution--Using publicly available SARS-CoV-2 sequences, researchers have revealed the genetic sites that must be in a particular state for the coronavirus to survive and which can tolerate changes, reports New Scientist.
Did animals in Turkey, Syria sense the quake early? Here’s the science, reports Leo Sands for the Washington Post. "Birds flew erratically above snow-capped buildings. Dogs howled loudly. Then, a devastating earthquake in Turkey and Syria leveled buildings and killed more than 5,000 people."
What ChatGPT and generative AI mean for science--Researchers are excited but apprehensive about the latest advances in artificial intelligence, reports Nature.
What did the ancient Egyptian pyramids look like when they were built? asks Patrick Pester for Live Science. The ancient Egyptian pyramids have stood for thousands of years and are among the world's most enduring monuments. But what did the pyramids look like when they were first built.
The evolutionary origin of paranoia and why it is becoming more common--Psychologists are forging a new understanding of paranoia, which is helping to explain why more of us are prone to the condition in today’s uncertain world, reports New Scientist.
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