Dark Oxygen

from France 24 ‘Dark Oxygen’ in depths of Pacific Ocean prompts new theories on life’s origins Scientists have discovered that metallic nodules on the seafloor produce their own oxygen in the dark depths of the Pacific Ocean. These...

AI Eats Electricity

from WIRED AI’s Energy Demands Are Out of Control. Welcome to the Internet’s Hyper-Consumption Era Generative artificial intelligence tools, now part of the everyday user experience online, are causing stress on local power grids and mass water...

Neandertal Neighbors

from Phys.org ‘A history of contact’: Geneticists are rewriting the narrative of Neanderthals and other ancient humans by Princeton University Detecting modern human–to-Neanderthal gene flow (H→N) and its consequences. Credit: Science (2024). DOI:...

Rawdogging

from The Atlantic Young Men Have Invented a New Way to Defeat Themselves Rawdogging is a search for purity that cannot be achieved. By Ian Bogost Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. It was time to buckle up and face the void. I was going to “rawdog” this...

It’s All Going To End Someday

from Futurism MAJOR EARTH SYSTEMS ON TRACK FOR COLLAPSE, SCIENTISTS FIND THAT’S GONNA LEAVE A MARK. by SHARON ADARLO Imagine this dire scenario: the Atlantic Ocean’s sea currents which bring warm water to Europe collapses, making large swaths of the...

The Original Macro

from WIRED The Puzzle of How Large-Scale Order Emerges in Complex Systems With a new framework, researchers believe they could be close to explaining how regularities emerge on macro scales out of systems made up of uncountable constituent parts. by Philip Ball CLIP:...