What to read today on @science

🔹Supercapacitor-battery hybrid device is as strong as steel, lighter than aluminum and boasts a bunch of desirable properties for electric vehicles. And can be used as typical car's body shell, for example.

🔹An exceptional fossil unearthed in Montana has given us the earliest known ancestor of vampire squids and octopuses. This Ancient 'Vampire' Cephalopod From 330 Million Years Ago Is a First of Its Kind.

🔹Researchers provide the first plausible explanation to why one of the most massive black hole pairs observed to date by gravitational waves also seemed to merge on a non-circular orbit. Their suggested solution,involves a chaotic triple drama inside a giant disk of gas around a super massive black hole in a galaxy far, far away.

🔹The animals that detect disasters. For millennia, people across the globe have reported alarmed animal behaviour in the run-up to natural disasters. Could these signals be used to warn us of impending catastrophes?

🔹Investigating an innovative solution for thermal energy storage. Have you ever gotten relief from summertime heat by draping a wet towel over your head? If so, you've benefited from a phase-change material (PCM).

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Lead Exposure May Have Lowered The IQ of Half of Americans Since 1940

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Google's DeepMind AI fills in the blanks on broken ancient texts
From confining plasma for nuclear fusion to solving 50-year protein folding problems, DeepMind's AI is starting to prove itself on the frontiers of modern science. To aid research into the history of human writing, the company has now turned its technology to the task of restoring incomplete ancient texts, where it has performed with an impressive degree of accuracy.

The code for this project (called Ithaca) is open source and available free online here: https://ithaca.deepmind.com/

Monday on @science

🔹Tokamak Energy achieves temperature threshold for commercial fusion. ST-40 spherical tokamak reactor reached a temperature of 100 million °C.

🔹Officials Confirm Several Geomagnetic Storms Are Hitting Earth This Week.

🔹Ernest Shackleton’s Ship Endurance – Lost in 1915 – Found 10,000 Feet Below the Ocean’s Surface in Antarctica

🔹Groundbreaking X-Ray Lens Provides Incredible Glimpse Into the Nanoworld. This allows the X-ray beams to be accurately focused on a single point even if they have different wavelengths.

🔹These spiders go off vibes to hunt in packs. Teamwork really does make the dream work.

Ordinarily, water is used to clean off the layer of dust that continuously accumulates on solar panels. In arid regions, however, doing so can be challenging. A new system addresses this problem, by substituting electrostatic repulsion for water.
https://youtu.be/epX9kUuDmgY

What to read today on @science

🔹Record-breaking hydrogen electrolyzer claims 95% efficiency.

🔹Wild Paper Claims Psychopathy May Not Be a Mental Disorder, But Something Else...

🔹Scientists used the array of 196 lasers to create conditions similar to the hot gas inside gigantic galaxy clusters.

🔹Ambient nighttime light exposure is implicated as a risk factor for adverse health outcomes, including cardiometabolic disease.

🔹 Familial natural short sleep mutations reduce Alzheimer pathology in mice.

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Webb Just Sent Back Its First-Ever Sharp Image of a Star, And It's Breathtaking

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There's One Simple Aspect of Daily Life Tied to Better Wellbeing, Study Hints

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Researchers at MIT partnered with the Rhode Island School of Design to create a fabric that can hear. While this may seem odd or even invasive, it has remarkable implications across many fields, including medical devices. A shirt could record the heartbeat of someone with cardiac issues. Or help a person who is hard of hearing or blind better navigate the world.

The fiber is piezoelectric, meaning it creates an electric signal when bent. That includes drastic movements like pressing on the material but also tiny ones from sound waves. Piezoelectricity is used in sonars, electronic drum sets, medical imaging, and buzzers like those used on Jeopardy. The energy can even be stored and redistributed, like Black Panther’s Vibranium suit.

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover is trying to cover more distance in a single month than any rover before it – and it’s doing so using artificial intelligence.
On the path ahead are sandpits, craters, and fields of sharp rocks that the rover will have to navigate around on its own. At the end of the 3-mile (5-kilometer) journey, which began March 14, 2022, Perseverance will reach an ancient river delta within Jezero Crater, where a lake existed billions of years ago.
Perseverance Mars rover will follow the proposed route to Jezero Crater’s delta shown in this animation. The delta is one of the most important locations the rover will visit as it seeks signs of ancient life on Mars.

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Scientists Translated a Spiderweb Into Music, And It's Utterly Captivating

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Fish Appear to Be Losing Their Color as Coral Reefs Decline, Scientists Warn

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'Invisibility shield' that can hide objects by bending light.

The shield has been developed by London-based start-up 'Invisiblity Shield Co', and uses a special lens array to redirect light, rendering any objects or people hiding behind it 'invisible.'
So far, 25 fully functional shields have been developed, and the team is funding on Kickstarter to develop more.

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Male Contraceptive Pill Found 99% Effective in Mice, With No Observable Side Effects

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Friday on @science

🔹Solar Orbiter probe snaps the sharpest ever image of the Sun's corona

🔹Why Did Vikings Mysteriously Leave Greenland? We May Finally Know The Reason

🔹Mysterious Vortex Waves Discovered on The Sun Hint at New Solar Physics

🔹A quadcopter drone that uses ancient technology instead of modern propellers made a huge impression at the recent Transformative Vertical Flight conference

🔹How Boas Save Themselves From Suffocating when squeezing their Prey to Death

🔹Methane-Eating bacteria convert potent greenhouse gas into usable fuel

Research paper:

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abj1325

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Strange Illusion Shows The Human Brain Mess With Time to Maintain Our Expectations

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Built by an Unknown Culture, This Is The Oldest Sun Observatory in The Americas

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Spiders found to extend their hearing by using webs as giant audio arrays

Spider silk carries some amazing capabilities, with its light weight, incredible elasticity and a status as one of nature's strongest materials. Scientists have made another extraordinary discovery in this area, finding that orb-weaving spiders use their webs as an array to extend their sense of hearing, a finding that could lead to advanced new forms of audio hardware.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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This Could Be Why The Massive Volcanic Eruption in Tonga Was So Explosive

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Friday on @science

🔹Superfast electron rains detected pouring down onto Earth

🔹Concrete made with old tires proves itself in real-world setting

🔹Scientists Just Unveiled The Most Complete Human Genome of All Time, And It's Glorious

🔹It's Official, Microplastics Were Found Circulating in Human Blood For The First Time

🔹New Research Challenges Theory That Moderate Alcohol Consumption Benefits Heart Health

🔹Fish Doing Math? Scientists teach zebra mbuna fish and stingrays to add and subtract

🔹How soft liquid droplets erode hard surfaces

🔹How the brain makes memories and uses “time travel” to remember

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