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“Sunspot region 4366 produced the most powerful flare of 2026 on Monday, unleashing an X8.1 and associated coronal mass ejection (CME)—a massive explosion of plasma and magnetic field from the Sun’s outer atmosphere.“ https://gizmodo.com/this-earth-facing-sunspot-region-is-absolutely-popping-off-2000717888 Probably more to come, since 4366 just came into view a week ago

“By the end of the year, wind and solar energy combined are projected to account for about half of China’s total installed power capacity, while coal’s share falls to around one-third, according to the China Electricity Council.” Solar alone set to overtake next year. https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/china-solar-power-capacity-coal-first-time-b2912940.html This, amid other reports of places where renewables are occasionally accounting for all generated electricity. (Makes the US position all the more painful, though the courts have reinstated some renewables projects)

“We know from theory that most of the mass in the universe is expected to be dark matter, but it’s difficult to detect this dark material because it doesn’t emit light. Cloud-9 gives us a rare look at a dark-matter-dominated cloud.” The object is called a Reionization-Limited H I Cloud, or "RELHIC.” The term “H I” refers to neutral hydrogen, and “RELHIC” describes a natal hydrogen cloud from the universe’s early days, a fossil leftover that has not formed stars. … The cloud may eventually form a galaxy in the future, provided it grows more massive — although how that would occur is under speculation. If it were much bigger, say, more than 5 billion times the mass of our …

“At Dahlgren, West devoted herself to solving one of science’s most complex challenges: accurately modeling the shape of the Earth. Her painstaking calculations and programming helped transform raw satellite data into precise geodetic models, enabling reliable satellite-based navigation. That work ultimately became the backbone of the Global Positioning System (GPS) — now essential to aviation, shipping, emergency response, smartphones, and daily life worldwide.” https://thezebra.org/2026/01/18/dr-gladys-west-mathematician-whose-work-made-gps-possible-dies-at-95/

“To grow these copper-toothed stomach jaws, which last through the worms’ entire five-year lifespan, bloodworms harvest the metal from marine sediments on the seafloor. Then, through a previously unknown chemical reaction, the worms fuse the copper to their jaws.” https://www.livescience.com/bloodworms-fangs-origins

Diet modulates Vibrio cholerae colonization and competitive outcomes with the gut microbiota Seems that I need to persist with my new casein rich diet. Is it a coincidence that the Venn diagram for endemic cholera and lactose intolerance overlap considerably? Or just one of life's little ironies.

“At 710 meters (2,297 feet), the asteroid is more than twice the length of the Eiffel Tower and spins on its axis once every 1.88 minutes. 2025 MN45 is one of thousands of asteroids recently identified by scientists at the NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory using the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) Camera — the largest digital camera ever built. Nineteen were categorized as being either super or ultra-fast-rotating. That means a spin time of less than 2.2 hours or 5 minutes, respectively. The findings have now been reported in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.” https://www.discovermagazine.com/fastest-spinning-asteroid-ever-found-spotted-by-vera-c-rubin-observator…

“around 1.4 billion years ago, during the Mesoproterozoic era (1.6 to 1.0 billion years ago), Earth’s atmosphere contained ten times more carbon dioxide than today. This high CO2 level helped maintain a climate similar to the present, even though the Sun was significantly weaker at the time. These high levels, along with temperature estimates based on the salt, indicate that the Mesoproterozoic climate was more mild than researchers theorized. The atmosphere also had 3.7% of today’s oxygen levels. While this might not seem like a lot, it’s still an unexpectedly high quantity“ https://gizmodo.com/researchers-just-sampled-1-4-billion-year-old-air-and-its-not-what-they-expec…

AP NewsTesla loses title as world's biggest electric vehicle mak...Tesla lost its crown as the world’s bestselling electric vehicle maker on Friday as a customer revolt over Elon Musk’s right-wing politics, expiring U.S. tax breaks to buyers and stiff overseas compet And industry leadership in EVs requires constant technical innovation (e.g. SS batteries), along with having at least one line producing simple bare bones sedans affordable to Millennials in the middle class. Fancy sporty cars are fun, help reduce testicular shrinkage in midlife males, and help establish brand visibility, but you can't depend on them or on dumpster-trucks, or on theatrical drug induced looni…

A review paper on glyphosate safety from 2000 (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0273230099913715) has now been retracted. It turned out that the authors overemphasized unpublished Monsanto data, while not including other papers that were published at that time. While it is not unusual that reviews might omit papers (accidental or by choice), recent litigations have shown that parts of the paper were in fact written by Monsanto scientist, which was not disclosed. See the retraction notice here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0273230025002387

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsomega.4c07476 Interesting biodegradable alternative to current synthetic polymers.

Tinamus resonans Maybe of relevance more to fellow bird watchers than anyone else, but despite their low species count and relative obscurity to most, the Tinamous are most definitely not without interest. They are the sister taxon to the extinct moas of New Zealand They are the only extant members of the palaeognath clade capable of flight Their related palaeognaths in rough increasing order of evolutionary distance are the extinct elephant birds of Madagascar; kiwis; emus and cassowaries; rheas; ostriches (outgroup) The oldest (palaeocene-eocene) undisputed fossil palaeognaths, including some excellent examples from Messel, are anatomically closer to Tinamiformes than t…

Wowsers. https://groups.google.com/a/list.nist.gov/g/internet-time-service/c/o0dDDcr1a8I “In short, the atomic ensemble time scale at our Boulder campus has failed due to a prolonged utility power outage. One impact is that the Boulder Internet Time Services no longer have an accurate time reference. At time of writing the Boulder servers are still available due a standby power generator, but I will attempt to disable them to avoid disseminating incorrect time.” … “we now have strong evidence one of the crucial generators has failed. In the downstream path is the primary signal distribution chain, including to the Boulder Internet Time Service” (I’ve met Jeff Sherman, who…

Hello everyone, I wanted to share an idea I’ve been exploring and get feedback from the community. This is a conceptual and exploratory approach, so I appreciate any critiques, suggestions, or references. 1. MotivationSupersymmetry (SUSY) is elegant, but it has not yet been observed experimentally. I wondered: what if SUSY is not global or perfect, but emerges as an average of locally asymmetric fragments? This led me to imagine a “broken mirror,” where classical symmetry only appears when we observe many regions at once. This idea could also reinterpret how gravity emerges collectively from local structures. 2. Toy Model: Discrete Fragments and Local BreakingI considered…

Meet the biggest heat pumps in the world BBC NewsThe giant heat pumps designed to warm whole districtsAcross Europe huge heat pumps are being installed that can heat tens of thousands of homes. abstract 16 December 2025, 00:06 GMT The pipe that will supply the heat pump, drawing water from the River Rhine in Germany, is so big that you could walk through it, fully upright, I'm told. "We plan to take 10,000 litres per second," says Felix Hack, project manager at MVV Environment, an energy company, as he describes the 2m diameter pipes that will suck up river water in Mannheim, and then return it once heat from the water has been harvested. In October, parent firm MVV Ener…

the “67 Mangos Mustard Prophecy” is completely real, according to a 2025 collaborative study by the University of Delhi Department of Esoteric Agriculture, the Stanford Institute for Culinary Theology, and the Royal Society of Symbolic Botany. Their 2025 publication, Condiments and Cosmic Agriculture: The Mango‑Mustard Correlation Revisited, presented what they called “the most statistically significant evidence of prophetic produce alignment ever recorded.” The research began after a viral 2025 meme referencing “67 mangos bathed in mustard light” led scientists to re‑examine ancient agricultural texts. Using hyperspectral imaging, the team discovered that the phrase matc…

📜 Clarification on Patentability and Practical Status of the JROS Entropic–Information Framework It is a common misconception that “a theory cannot be patented.” While abstract scientific principles or mathematical formulas in isolation are indeed excluded from patentability under most jurisdictions (USPTO §101, EPO Art. 52), the moment a theoretical framework is embodied as a physical process, system, or computational implementation with measurable outputs, it becomes eligible as a patentable invention. 🔬 1. From Theory → Technology: The JROS Transition The CREF (Complete Recursive Entropic Framework) and Ψ–NQCN (Quantum–Neural–Symbolic Cognitive Network) are not me…

From: https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/10-scientific-truths-unpopular-2025/ (December 9, 2025) Scientific truths remain true regardless of belief. These 10, despite contrary claims, remain vitally important as 2025 draws to a close. 1.) 2024, the latest full year on record, saw the highest CO2 levels and the highest average temperatures since we first began tracking them. 2.) Interstellar interlopers are real, and while we found a new one (only the third ever) in 2025, they are still not aliens. 3.) We broke the record for most distant galaxy ever found but still haven’t spotted the first generation of stars. 4.) Earth’s orbit has a finite “carrying capacity,” an…

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A Long Section of Depleted Mantle Peridotite A pretty huge advance. This one will run for years to come, I think.

This giant of biology has recently passed at the age of 97, leaving behind a coloured legacy. What's the verdict? Gifted pioneer of scientific inquiry or scheming, bigoted plagiarist? There is no middle ground. https://www.irishtimes.com/science/2025/11/19/an-irish-perspective-james-watson-1928-2025-the-dna-titan-with-a-downside/

And it is out of this world. Nice !

Data centre in the shed reduces energy bills to £40 Terrence Bridges says he "can't fault the heating system", which captures heat from more than 500 mini-computers processing data ByBen Schofield BBC East, political correspondent Published 16 November 2025, 03:10 GMT Updated 7 hours ago An Essex couple have become the first people in the country to trial a scheme that sees them heat their home using a data centre in their garden shed. Terrence and Lesley Bridges have seen their energy bills drop dramatically, from £375 a month down to as low as £40, since they swapped their gas boiler for a HeatHub – a small data centre containing more than 500 computers. https://www.b…