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“This is a tectonically active region, most famous for a 2002 magnitude 7.9 earthquake that was felt as far away as Seattle.”
“In Manchester, Burnham laid out a target for the northern city to become carbon neutral by 2038.”
“Miller and her colleagues reported in the new study, published June 4 in the journal The Seismic Record.”
“Formed by volcanoes tens of millions of years ago, this block of crust is now being pushed under the North American Plate in Alaska in a process called subduction.”
“The results were published Wednesday (June 24) in the journal Science Advances.”
“Perseverance landed in Jezero crater on Feb. 18, 2021.”
“some 2,300 miles (3,700 kilometers) away”
“The Cheyava Falls sample was originally supposed to be brought to Earth in the 2030s”
“in its 2026 budget proposal, the Trump administration deemed the mission "financially unsustainable" and proposed slashing the project”
“in a mission due to launch no sooner than 2028”
“Science Advances, 12 (26).”
“simulated corporate network containing 33 hosts”
“replicated itself across roughly 62% of the network over the course of a week”
“In experiments described in a new study uploaded June 2 to the arXiv preprint server, the worm was tested against a simulated corporate network containing 33 hosts, including Linux servers, Windows workstation computers and other internet-…”
“In experiments described in a new study uploaded June 2 to the arXiv preprint server...”
“"The main finding is that this type of system can do more than run a fixed exploit; it can examine the target environment, reason about possible vulnerabilities, use tools to attempt attacks, and then replicate itself after a successful co…”
“"Traditional worms follow a scripted sequence: Once a vulnerability is identified, the worm replicates," Hutchins told Live Science. "In contrast, the researchers demonstrated that an easily downloaded AI model could be used as the decisio…”
“"What made it particularly dangerous was a clever tiered design," Tom Vazdar, a professor of AI and cybersecurity at the Open Institute of Technology, told Live Science. "GPU-equipped compromised machines provided reasoning capacity for li…”
“"The researchers employed lightweight open-weight models during their demonstration, which are relatively easy to download, remove guardrail components from, and utilize," Hutchins told Live Science.”
“"The attacker's marginal cost drops to essentially zero. And you can't patch your way out of it, because it doesn't rely on a single vulnerability class. It reasons. Patch one hole, and it finds another."”
“For half a century, scientists have known that Earth's Northern and Southern hemispheres have almost the exact same albedo”
“Now, researchers have uncovered another surprising symmetry hiding in the data: Earth's Eastern and Western halves appear to reflect the same amount of sunlight as well, they reported in a study published June 3 in the journal Nature. They…”
“But what is surprising, they write, is how closely matched they are. The probability of the hemispheres naturally reflecting sunlight within 0.01 watts per square meter of each other is less than 3%.”
“Earth's planetary albedo is about 29%, according to the study. This means that about 0.29 of the solar radiation that hits Earth is reflected back into space.”
“To identify the symmetry, Zhang and his colleagues analyzed 25 years of satellite observations from 2001 to 2025 collected by the CERES program”
“Second, it's consistent across a 25-year dataset.”
“Lastly, there is "triple symmetry": The two hemispheres contain similar proportions of ice-free ocean, experience similar cloud effects, and reflect similar amounts of sunlight under clear skies.”
“When they examined the slight changes in the exact longitude of this symmetry, they found correlation with the ENSO record.”
“During La Niña years, the circulation is stronger, causing warmer water and so the Eastern Hemisphere has more clouds, and thus reflects slightly more sunlight.”
“During El Niño, the circulation weakens, warm water spreads across the Pacific and so the Western Hemisphere reflects more.”
“Other analyses showed that the Northern Hemisphere's albedo was the same as the Southern Hemisphere's, although recent research co-authored by Loeb suggests that the Northern Hemisphere is now absorbing more light than the Southern, likely…”
“To identify the symmetry, Zhang and his colleagues analyzed 25 years of satellite observations from 2001 to 2025 collected by the CERES program, which uses satellites to measure Earth’s energy budget.”
“They found that the dividing line lies along a great circle that wraps around the whole planet. It's made up of two longitude lines: the 27 degrees east and 153 degrees west meridians, which stretch from the North to South Pole through Eas…”
“Launched into low Earth orbit in 2024 by the Chinese Academy of Sciences in collaboration with the European Space Agency”
“Einstein Probe orbits Earth every 96 minutes and can scan almost the entire night sky about every five hours.”
“The first flare lasted about two minutes. Roughly 200 seconds later, the probe detected a second flare lasting just over 4 minutes.”
“On March 5, 2024, the probe captured one such event, called an X-ray transient, from a celestial object scientists named EP240305a.”
“300,000-year-old relative”
“Every skeleton known from the species is female.”
“Since 2013, Berger has headed the Rising Star project, which discovered nearly two dozen skeletons”
“studied 20 teeth from H. naledi skeletons”
“half of the 20 individuals we studied”
“found in one Neanderthal male”
“Proteomic analysis of four P. robustus skeletons in 2025”
“lived in South Africa around 1 million to 2 million years ago”
“Pleistocene (2.58 million years ago to 11,700 years ago)”
“published Wednesday (June 24) in the journal Cell”
“300,000-year-old”
“in 2025, they advanced the controversial claim that H. naledi buried their dead”
“20 teeth”
“half of the 20 individuals”
“published Tuesday (June 23) in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B”
“analyzed codas recorded over almost 20 years”
“Sperm whales entered the Mediterranean via the Strait of Gibraltar about 20,000 years ago”
“identified by their use of a single coda 90% of the time”
“5,291 codas recorded between 2003 and 2021”
“there were four instances of eastern whales using the western dialect”
“It's probably happening on the scale of hundreds and thousands of years, because sperm whales can live into their 60s and 70s. And this study is looking over 19 years of data”
“Maybe if we could leave them for another 10,000 years”
“Hersh, T. A., Alexiadou, P., Brotons, J. M., Cerdà, M., Pirotta, E., Frantzis, A., & Rendell, L. (2026). Dialect variation in Mediterranean sperm whales shows evidence of cultural evolution in an isolated population. Proceedings of the Roy…”
“Chris Simms is a freelance journalist who previously worked at New Scientist for more than 10 years”
“in 2018 was shortlisted for Best Newcomer at the Association of British Science Writers awards”
“Sperm whales entered the Mediterranean via the Strait of Gibraltar about 20,000 years ago, and they have spread throughout the area.”
“But the analysis by Hersh's team of 5,291 codas recorded between 2003 and 2021 revealed that sperm whales living in the eastern Mediterranean around the Hellenic Trench, off Greece, have a slightly different dialect from that used by anima…”
“and that's just a snapshot of one animal's life”
“where there is a unique population of a few thousand sperm whales”
“The thinking was that all the sperm whales in the Mediterranean belonged to the same clan, identified by their use of a single coda 90% of the time.”
“The findings, published Tuesday (June 23) in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, are providing a rare insight into the process of different dialects emerging among non-human species.”
“It's probably happening on the scale of hundreds and thousands of years, because sperm whales can live into their 60s and 70s. And this study is looking over 19 years of data, and that's just a snapshot of one animal's life”
“The western sperm whales religiously stick to their dialect, but there were four instances of eastern whales using the western dialect”
“eight years ago, he had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder.”
“For the prior three years, he had been managing the condition with lithium.”
“He was taking a prescribed dosage of 800 milligrams per day”
“the level of lithium in the patient's blood was 1.28 milliequivalents per liter (mEq/L).”
“Safe levels of lithium are between 0.6 and 1.2 mEq/L; any higher than that can cause a condition called lithium toxicity, which can be fatal if untreated.”
“prior to the onset of his symptoms, the levels of lithium in his blood were between 0.4 and 0.9 mEq/L.”
“At a follow-up visit one year later, the man was still taking valproate and his symptoms of fatigue and taste changes had not returned.”
“Changes in a patient's sense of taste while taking lithium have been recorded in just a handful of reports dating to the 1970s and 1980s.”
“more than 60 million stars”
“26 cumulative hours in March 2025, across nine pointings”
“no earlier than Aug. 30”
“During the last 20 years, almost 300 exoplanets have been discovered using this technique”
“This image from Euclid includes 51 known planetary systems”
“more than 20 days”
“In 24 hours, Euclid has already captured the stars involved in all the future microlensing events that the Roman space telescope will detect”
“In the new observations, shared Wednesday (June 24), the Euclid space telescope imaged the center of the Milky Way in extraordinary detail, showing off more than 60 million stars crowded in the galaxy's center.”
“The image was taken in 26 cumulative hours in March 2025, across nine pointings of the telescope's visible-light camera toward the galaxy's center, also called the galactic bulge.”
“after that observatory launches aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida no earlier than Aug. 30.”
“During the last 20 years, almost 300 exoplanets have been discovered using this technique, all with ground-based telescopes and all towards the centre of our galaxy,”
“This image from Euclid includes 51 known planetary systems — and it will assist in studying many more that will be found,”
“Euclid's observing window was too short to find a microlensing event, which requires more than 20 days of examining one star to watch for a planet's orbit and associated changes in the star's light.”
“In 24 hours, Euclid has already captured the stars involved in all the future microlensing events that the Roman space telescope will detect, but before the stars and planets involved have aligned,”
“Earth's oldest known impact crater formed when a meteorite slammed into what is now Australia about 3 billion years ago — 470 million years later than scientists previously claimed, a new study suggests.”
“It remains a record-breaking structure, beating the world's next-oldest known meteorite impact crater — the Yarrabubba impact structure, also in Western Australia — by roughly 800 million years.”
“In a study published last year, Kirkland and his colleagues said they had "unequivocal evidence" that the North Pole Dome crater was 3.47 billion years old, based on an analysis of cone-shaped chunks of rock known as "shatter cones" that f…”
“However, a study published four months later in the journal Science Advances called the other team's results "inaccurate," arguing that the impact occurred no earlier than 2.7 billion years ago.”
“The researchers analyzed two samples of shatter-cone-bearing rocks, as well as a shocked quartz vein — a sheet-like deposit that typically forms when superhot, mineral-rich water circulates in the cracks between shocked rocks.”
“The new age places the North Pole Dome structure as Earth's oldest known impact crater and the only recognised example from the Archean eon [4 billion to 2.5 billion years ago], a time when the planet's earliest continents were forming.”
“an infusion of C+P was safe in an early trial including 32 human stroke patients, causing no notable side effects.”
“published June 17 in the journal Science Translational Medicine.”
