Science news this week: A magnitude 8.8 megaquake and whether we should — and can — stop AI
In this week’s scientists of this week, a Magnitude 8.8 megaquake Struck off the coast of Russia. The huge earthquake was the sixth spouse The biggest ever recorded And struck the Kamchatka peninsula, not populated by little populated Kamchatka.
Shortly after the earthquake struck a Volcano started to break out on the same peninsula. The Klyuchevskoy volcano had shown signs of trouble for weeks, and the earthquake probably intensified the eruption, which sent spitting lava and an ash plume rising at a height of at least 1.5 mile (2.5 kilometers).
The huge earthquake also led to tsunami warnings across the Pacific, but many of them were then downgraded because the waves were not as large as it was originally fearing.
Ancient Greek honey
The researchers finally identified a Sticky goo substance found in bronze pots aged 2,500 years from southern Italy. GOO, left from an offering to an ancient Greek god, has been the subject of an archaeological debate for 70 years, but now it is finally settled – GOO is honey.
A team of chemists and archaeologists used a cutting -edge chemical analysis to determine that the pots originally contained in honeycomb. The ancient Greeks and Romans Used of medicine honey, rituals, cosmetics and, of course, food.
Discover more archeology news
– Ancient DNA suggests that the ancestors of Estonians, Finns and Hungarians lived in Siberia 4,500 years ago
– Archaeologists discover “Land of the White Jaguar”.
– 4,000 -year -old handpicked on the offer of ancient Egyptian tombs
The little mysteries of life
Cats owners often know too well that their feline companions hate water. Not all cats have aquaphobia, but stereotype is more often true. SO, Why do most domestic cats despise getting wet?
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THC pizza
At least 85 people have become intoxicated with THC (Tetrahydrocannabinol), the psychoactive ingredient of cannabis, after eating in a pizzeria of Wisconsin in 2024, revealed a new report.
The famous Yeti pizza in Stoughton shared industrial cuisine with other sellers, including a producer of edible products containing delta -9 – the most abundant form of the most abundant shape of THC in cannabis Plants. After missing cooking oil, the pizzeria has involuntarily used infused oil in the shared kitchen to prepare the dough.
Customers said they have experienced symptoms of THC exposure in one to four hours after eating pizza, garlic bread, cheese bread or pizzeria sandwiches. Symptoms included stunning, drowsiness and anxiety.
Discover more news on health
– ‘Universal’ The cancer vaccine that goes to human tests could be useful for “all forms of cancer”
—Sen in Yellowstone suffers from serious burns after the ground breaks on the thermal pond
—’TTIME Travel ‘Memory Hack Rejuunine memories, study results
Also in new scientists this week
—Tit was so unexpected ‘: 90 billion liters of fusion waters hit its way through the Greenland ice cap in a merger event without sight
—The sisters discover a “unicorn” object with rapid fixed that defies physics
– The animated shark discovered the largest system of caves in the world inside the world
—The sientists reach a quantum computer error rate of 0.000015% – a world record realization which could lead to smaller and faster machines
Scientific projector
The boom of artificial intelligence (AI) begins to feel like a leakage gear, taking us Always closer to technological singularity – A moment in the time when IA develops general intelligence which goes beyond human intelligence.
A superintendent of AI is a terrifying perspective in many ways, in particular because it has the potential to become a thoroughfare and to become a threat to all of us. However, artificial general intelligence also has the potential to solve some of the other existential problems of humanity.
Most scientists predict that artificial general intelligence will exist by 2040, while some people think that it could happen next year. Be that as it may, the birth of superintendent is apparently just at the corner of the street.
Something for the weekend
If you are looking for something a little longer to read during the weekend, here are some of the best long reads, books of books and interviews published this week.
–Live crossword puzzle n ° 3: mathematical term for a whole number – 5 down [Crossword]
–What is the Pacific Ring of Fire? [Query]
–“ This is not a new war ”: how the battle between viruses and bacteria could help us beat the superbaceae [Opinion]
Moving science
Astronomers shared a fascinating animation Hole Noir “missing link” consuming a star At the edge of a distant galaxy. Astronomers believe they have spotted this stellar attack in the data from the Hubble space telescope and the NASA X -ray observatory, so they recreated what the event would have looked in the animation.
The black hole in animation is a rare intermediate mass black hole. Astronomers find it difficult to identify medium -sized black holes because they do not produce energy jets or do not link galaxies, and they can be poorly identified as clusters of smaller black holes “stellar mass”.
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