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Researchers have identified a single-celled microbe that aids coral survival during ocean-warming events, like bleaching. This study reveals the critical role of specific protists in the coral microbiome in determining a coral’s ability to withstand heat stress. Credit: SciTechDaily.comNew research highlights the role of microorganisms in protecting corals from heat stress.Researchers discovered for the first time a single-celled microbe that can help corals survive ocean-warming events like bleaching. The new study, led…

New research shows that life can thrive in much saltier conditions than known before, expanding the potential habitats for life in our solar system and providing crucial insights into the effects of salinity on Earth’s aquatic life. Credit: SciTechDaily.comNew Research on Microbes Expands the Known Limits for LifeA new study on microbes in extremely salty water suggests life may survive conditions previously thought to be uninhabitable. The research widens the possibilities for where life may be found throughout our solar…

Researchers have developed an advanced optical technique to uncover hidden properties of the quantum material Ta2NiSe5 (TNS) using light. By employing terahertz time-domain spectroscopy, the team observed anomalous terahertz light amplification, indicating the presence of an exciton condensate. This discovery opens up new possibilities for using quantum materials in entangled light sources and other applications in quantum physics. Credit: SciTechDaily.comScientists used a laser-based technique to reveal hidden quantum…

The writer Terry Pratchett once declared in an interview and also in numerous biographical notes appended to his books that he was not writing literature. This was possibly tongue-in-cheek, for elsewhere he said fantasy writing was literature, and the oldest genre at that. The question, as millions of readers have discovered for themselves, is largely forgotten when they are laughing their heads off at his vivid, imaginative, hilarious writing. Rarely do you see such writing thunderbolted with imagination and…

The iconic GameCube start-up sound is a fond memory of many gamers' childhoods, but for the last 23 years, the beloved Nintendo console has been harboring a little-known secret: There's an alternate version of the well-known xylophone jingle that plays when the console is turned on, and it sounds absolutely hilarious.Recently shared online by an employee at Secret Castle Toys--a local game shop based in Owensboro, Kentucky--the secret Easter egg start-up noise has taken the internet by storm, with many…

Smokey Robinson has a message for all those TikTokers who just found out about his latest album Gasms: “Get your mind off of sex.” Recently, a TikTok user named “Hollywoodnut” posted a video where he shares his amazement learning about the soul legend’s 2022 LP and its eye-catching album title. “This is insane,” he noted in the video that’s been viewed upward of 1.8 million times. “Like in what context would I listen to this song?” Somehow, Hollywoodnut’s inquiry reached Robinson, who took apparently took a…

A view of the dark matter (red), gas (green), and stars (white) in one of the simulated Local Groups from HESTIA. The simulated analogs of the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies are near the center of the image, and the ultra-diffuse galaxies are marked with circles. Credit: Salvador Cardona-BarreroResearchers forecast the discovery of faint, expansive galaxies, potentially reshaping cosmic understanding and galaxy formation theories.Using the most accurate and detailed cosmological simulations available, an international…

Large Language Models (LLMs), the technology that powers AI chatbots, have shown capabilities in solving complex tasks. However, they sometimes suffer from hallucinations, a phenomena where the results returned are plausible but factually incorrect -- limiting their wider use in various industries. Google DeepMind, the company's AI research arm has now announced a new model which is aimed at reducing hallucinations and reply with answers that "surpass the best known results in important problems."Called FunSearch, this…

It’s probably safe to say no one could have predicted that LinkedIn would add Stories before Twitch, but here we are. Nearly eight years after Instagram lifted the feature from Snapchat, Twitch announced Saturday that its own users will be able to begin recording Stories starting later this year. At its TwitchCon Paris event, Twitch said it plans to roll out the ephemeral media format in October. Once they arrive, Stories will live on the Following page of the Twitch mobile app, where they’ll be subject to Twitch’s…

By U.S. Department of Energy July 2, 2023A conjectured phase diagram of nuclear matter. New data – that show high collision energies produce a quark-gluon plasma (QGP) while the lowest energy collisions do not – will help scientists map out the boundaries between QGP and the hadronic phase. Credit: Brookhaven National LaboratoryThrough gold nuclei collisions at varying energies, physicists have found that the creation of quark-gluon <span class="glossaryLink" aria-describedby="tt"…