When Hannah Cairo was 17 years old, she disproved the Mizohata-Takeuchi conjecture, a long-standing guess in the field of harmonic analysis about how waves behave on curved surfaces. The conjecture was posed in the 1980s, and mathematicians had been trying to prove it ever since. If the Mizohata-Takeuchi conjecture turned out to be true, it…
Foods like cereal or protein bars can be homemade or shop bought, and can contain ultra-processed ingredients DronG/Shutterstock It seems that you can lose weight while eating ultra-processed food – but to a lesser extent than if you cut them out. Food is generally considered to be ultra-processed if it includes ingredients that are never…
The Great Fall Bird Migration Has Already Begun—Here’s How to See It Birds are starting to make their way south for the winter, and you’ve got a front-row seat to the show By Kate Wong We’re only halfway through summer in the Northern Hemisphere, but for our feathered friends, fall migration is underway. The birds…
Microbes might find energy in surprisingly inhospitable places ublic domain sourced / access rights from The Book Worm / Alamy Rocks fractured by earthquakes could unlock a wide menu of chemical energy sources for microbes living deep underground – and similar processes could potentially support microbes within other planets. “This opens up a whole new…
A mysterious disease has been turning sea stars into goo since 2013. Now, there’s a leading suspect behind the killings — a bacterium called Vibrio pectenicida, researchers report August 4 in Nature Ecology & Evolution. Knowing the identity of the killer could help scientists protect both captive and wild populations of sea stars. The disease, known as sea star…
Russian Volcano, Dormant for Hundreds of Years, Erupts after Massive Nearby Quake The Krasheninnikov volcano, located less than 150 miles away from the epicenter of Russia’s July 29 earthquake, began erupting on August 3 By Meghan Bartels edited by Dean Visser A massive column of ash erupts from the Krasheninnikov volcano in Russia’s eastern Kamchatka…
NASA’s Juno spacecraft could be sent to intercept the interstellar object NASA/JPL-Caltech An interstellar object currently hurtling through our solar system will loop around the sun and disappear back into the remote depths of the cosmos within months. Astronomers will be able to capture images as comet 3I/ATLAS traverses our region of space, but do…
A recent uptick in new colorectal cancer cases in the United States among a key age group appears to be due to catching them early with screening. From 2004 to 2019, there was a steady annual rise in new colorectal cancers for those 45 to 49 years old. Then cases shot up dramatically from 2019…
Relationships are messy, whether you are an adult with lots of experience or a kid navigating tough times with a best friend, boyfriend or girlfriend. You can’t predict moods, interests or desires. For teens learning the ins and outs of relationships for the first time, disagreements, fights and breakups can be crushing. But what if…
A deepfake video of Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese on a smartphone Australian Associated Press/Alamy A universal deepfake detector has achieved the best accuracy yet in spotting multiple types of videos manipulated or completely generated by artificial intelligence. The technology may help flag non-consensual AI-generated pornography, deepfake scams or election misinformation videos. The widespread availability…
