Click Here to Read: Is bird flu the next pandemic? What to know after the first H5N1 death in the US
By Brenda Goodman, CNN website on January 8, 2025.
H5N1 Avian Influenza A Virus. Image: NIAID. Public Domain via WIkimedia Commons.
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Scientists Say We May Have Been Wrong About the Origin of Life
How AI is unlocking ancient text—and could rewrite history
Click Here to Read: How AI is unlocking ancient text —and could rewrite history: From deciphering burnt Roman scrolls to reading crumbling cuneiform tablets, neural networks could give researchers more data than they’ve had in centuries By Jo Marchant on the Nature website on December 30, 2024.
Sumerian account of silver for the govenor (background removed) . Image: Gavin.collins Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
What are stars made of? A century ago, this woman found out—and changed physics forever
Click Here to Read: What are stars made of? A century ago, this woman found out—and changed physics forever
In 1925, grad student Cecilia Payne first proposed that stars were mostly made of hydrogen and helium and shaped our understanding of the universe By Liz Kruesi on the National Geographic website on January 1, 2025.
This image, taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, shows the colorful death of a star similar to our sun. Image: NASA ESA, and K. Noll (STScI) Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
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