Ancient fault line poses future earthquake hazard in Canada’s North

The Tintina fault is a major geologic fault approximately 1,000 km long that trends northwestward across the entire territory.

== yjc, couldn’t resist
Lost English legend decoded, solving Chaucerian mystery and revealing a medieval preacher’s meme

Cambridge scholars now believe the Song of Wade, a long-lost treasure of English culture, was a chivalric romance not a monster-filled epic.

New study links human ribcage shape to climate

Ötzi the Iceman may have come to an unfortunate end while crossing the Alps more than 5,000 years ago, but thanks to his well-preserved remains, he’s still helping us understand our past.

Transatlantic Communications Cable Doubles As Ocean Sensor

In recent years, scientists have begun gathering submarine measurements via an existing infrastructure network that spans millions of kilometers around the planet: the undersea fiber-optic telecommunications cables.

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Construction begins on world’s tallest wind turbine

The wind turbine uses a dual-framework base instead of a traditional closed tower to access stronger high-altitude winds, aiming to match offshore energy output while keeping onshore operating costs.

Birth of a solar system: Astronomers observe early planet formation for 1st time

Scientists call it an unprecedented snapshot of ’time zero'.

Babies made using three people’s DNA are born free of hereditary disease

The method combines the egg and sperm from a mum and dad with a second egg from a donor woman.

Many fish are social, but pesticides are pushing them apart

Scientists have detected pesticides in rivers, lakes and oceans worldwide. So what are these pesticides doing to the fish?

First scientific evidence of auditory interaction between plants and animals

the team focused on female moths and found that they make a critical decision—where to lay their eggs—based on sounds emitted by nearby plants.

New study reveals how corals teach their offspring to beat the heat

Plunge into the shallows off the Florida Keys, Hawai?i or the Great Barrier Reef in Australia and you are likely to meet a startling sight.

Researchers improve radiant cooling to make outdoor temperatures feel cooler

Active radiant cooling, which uses surrounding surfaces such as cool roofs or floors to absorb heat from a space, has recently emerged as a promising strategy for outdoor thermal comfort, as it offers cooling at a distance without the inefficiency of conditioning unconfined air.

Relief from drought in southwest U.S. likely isn’t coming, according to new research

The Southwest United States is currently facing its worst megadrought of the past 1,200 years.

New insights into the jet stream make better climate predictions possible

Jet streams are often referred to as the “motor” of global weather. However, how these atmospheric flows are affected by climate change remains uncertain.

Rethinking the Big Bang

Gravity and quantum ripples may explain cosmic origins

Built-in extinguishers can prevent battery fires and explosions

Lithium metal batteries use lightweight lithium metal anodes and high-voltage nickel-rich oxide cathodes, a setup that can produce flammable gases.

The Secret To Better Airplane Navigation Could Be Inside the Earth’s Crust

With GPS jamming and spoofing on the rise, the industry is pushing for an update, and fast.

This plant peacefully houses warring ant species by giving them their own apartments

Squamellaria plants need ant tenants to survive. But the insects don’t always get along.

Atomic swap in morphine core structure leads to safer, non-rewarding opioid alternative

One of the greatest revolutions in the field of pain medication was the isolation of morphine from the opium poppy in the 19th century.

Webb spots ‘Infinity Galaxy’ that sheds light on black hole formation

It appears to support the ‘direct collapse’ theory.

Ankles might point the way to cartilage repair in osteoarthritis

The ankle’s ability to regenerate cartilage uses the same mechanisms that enable some animals to grow new limbs.

Guineafowl can outsmart extreme temperatures

Have you ever wondered how wild birds cope with baking hot afternoons and freezing cold mornings?

Fossilized oysters hold key to mass extinction: Study finds event triggered by ocean pH drop

The event occurred between the Triassic—Jurassic boundary. In the ocean, the first modern corals had recently evolved as had the plesiosaurs.

== don’t know how realistic this is, but interesting idea
How paper planes could provide sustainable solutions to space debris

Space junk is a huge problem. The surge in satellite launches in recent years is leaving low Earth orbit (LEO) cluttered with debris.

== I am sure someone in the group is taking a blood pressure med
Clinical trial shows taking blood pressure medication at night improves nocturnal and daytime control

Previous studies have examined the optimal timing for antihypertensive medication with conflicting evidence and substantial variability in study outcomes.

Scientists have detected the largest black hole merger yet

Size of two black holes that merged is somewhat puzzling to astronomers.

== yjc, forums were the thing before big social media
Forums Are Still Alive, Active, And A Treasure Trove Of Information

Here are Internet forums that are still alive and kicking and full of information and interesting people.

== yjc, quite fascinating
Public Domain Image Archive

The Public Domain Image Archive is a curated collection of more than 10,000 out-of-copyright historical images, free for all to explore and reuse.

COVID-19 Vaccine’s mRNA Technology Adapted for First Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Vaccine

The researchers tested the vaccine’s resistance to the virulent pathogen that causes the disease and were able to demonstrate 100% protection against infection in animal models.

Some Gut Microbes Can Absorb and Help Expel ‘Forever Chemicals’, Study Shows

Previously, the only way to reduce levels of Pfas was by bloodletting or a drug with unpleasant side effects.

Underwater Turbine Spins 6.5 Years Off Scotland’s Coast, Proving Viability of Tidal Energy

Keeping a large, or grid-scale, turbine in place in the harsh sea environment that long is a record that helps pave the way for bigger tidal energy farms and makes it far more appealing to investors.

These are the closest-ever images of the sun

The Parker Solar Probe captured images and other data from within the sun’s corona during a record-breaking approach last year.

== yjc
What’s on the menu?

Author Nathalie Cooke argues the menu itself is an ‘unbelievably informative’ document.

The RNA revolution: How our understanding of life’s blueprint is being rewritten

For decades, the central dogma of molecular biology—DNA makes RNA, RNA makes protein, protein makes phenotype—was the guiding framework for understanding inheritance and disease.

Key brain protein may hold answers for memory loss and neurodegenerative diseases

Scientists have discovered how a key protein helps maintain strong connections between brain cells that are crucial for learning and memory.

Scientists reconstruct 540 million years of sea level change in detail

Scientists were already able to use sediments and fossils to roughly reconstruct how sea levels changed over time steps of a million years or more.

New study shows tortoises experience feelings similar to our own

This test, commonly used in mammals and birds, evaluates how animals interpret ambiguous situations, acting as a window into how they feel.

Solid-state alloy enables safe, low-cost hydrogen storage and transport

Conventional hydrogen storage methods have relied on either high-pressure gas compression (350–700 bar) or cryogenic liquefaction at temperatures as low as –253°C. However, these approaches are associated with significant challenges, including high explosion risk, excessive energy consumption, and natural boil-off losses.

Communications innovation could markedly improve AI training process

The second bottleneck happens when all those GPUs need to sync up so they can “talk” to the model and convey what they’ve learned.

World-first study uses First Nations calendars for solar power forecasting

The in-depth observations of First Nations seasonal calendars could be key to improving solar power forecasting.

Mysterious reed-covered mounds reveal vast underground water network in Great Salt Lake

Phragmites-covered mounds in recent years have appeared on the drying playa off the lake’s southeast shore.

== US perspective
Polar vortex patterns explain shifting US winter cold despite warming climate

Researchers found that two specific patterns in the polar vortex, a swirling mass of cold air high in the stratosphere, steer extreme cold to different regions of the country.

Rivers choose their path based on erosion

Some rivers carve out a single pathway, while others divide into multiple interwoven threads.

Quantum objects’ dual nature mapped with new formula for ‘wave-ness’ and ‘particle-ness’

By measuring the coherence in a system it becomes possible to calculate a quantum object’s level of wave-ness and particle-ness as an exact value.

The Milky Way could be teeming with more satellite galaxies than previously thought

In the LCDM model, galaxies form in the center of gigantic clumps of dark matter called halos. Most galaxies in the universe are low-mass dwarf galaxies, the majority of which are satellites orbiting around a more massive galaxy, such as our Milky Way.

Newly discovered ancient river landscapes may control ice flow in East Antarctica

The remains of landscapes thought to have formed when ancient rivers flowed across East Antarctica have been discovered—and could help predictions of future loss from the ice sheet.

‘Molecular shield’ placed in the nose may soon treat common hay fever trigger

The prevalence of hay fever has been surging for decades and this is likely to continue.

Sled dog genetic history sheds light on human migration patterns into Greenland

The histories of sled dogs and humans in the Arctic have been intricately linked for thousands of years, so it is no surprise that the migration patterns of these dogs mirror those of humans through the Arctic.

Can the Large Hadron Collider snap string theory?

A good contender for marrying gravity and quantum phenomena is string theory, which posits that all particles, including a hypothetical one representing gravity, are tiny vibrating strings.

Astronomers Plan Far Side of the Moon Satellite to Hear Billion-Year-Old Radio Waves

One of the difficulties in studying this period, the Cosmic Dawn, of the universe is that silence is essential.

== yjc, diehard firefox user (though I get visibly grouchy at times)
Firefox is fine. The people running it are not

Mozilla’s management is a bug, not a feature.

== in case any of you, like me, are running Nvidia GPUs
NVIDIA warns your GPU may be vulnerable to Rowhammer attacks

Researchers from the University of Toronto have shown that Rowhammer attacks, which are already known to affect regular DRAM, can now target GDDR6 memory on NVIDIA’s high-end GPUs when ECC is not enabled.

Researchers Develop New Tool To Measure Biological Age

Scouring a single draw of blood for thousands of proteins, the tool works by first comparing the levels of these proteins with their average levels at a given age.

BYD Pledges to Cover Damages from Self-Parking Car Crashes

Chinese electric vehicle giant BYD claims it has delivered a car that can park itself with full Level 4 autonomy.

U.S. abandons hunt for signal of cosmic inflation

Now-canceled CMB-S4 project would have searched the afterglow of the Big Bang for signs of cosmic exponential growth spurt

Olorofim Phase IIb trial shows efficacy in invasive fungal disease for patients with limited treatment options

Invasive fungal diseases from mold pathogens cause significant illness and death, especially when treatments fail due to resistance or intolerance.

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How Hot Can It Get, Literally?

Figuring out how anomalously high temperatures can rise is taking on added importance as the planet warms.