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August 04, 2023

Animals Why Do Dogs Tilt Their Head to the Side? The attentive and endearing doggy head tilt might indicate your pup is trying to process what you're saying By Stephanie Pappas

Mathematics $1 Million Will Go to the Mathematician Who Busts the 'ABC Conjecture' Theory The founder of a Japanese media company has offered a large cash prize to anyone who can find a flaw in an unusual proof  By Manon Bischoff

Oceans Is A Mega Ocean Current About to Shut Down? An alarming study predicts an imminent collapse of a mega ocean current, but some experts say the evidence is insufficient By Chelsea Harvey,E&E News

Paleontology Bizarre-Looking Colossus Whale May Have Been Heaviest Animal Ever (Sorry, Blue Whales) "I've never seen anything like it," says a paleontologist not involved in the discovery of a 40-million-year-old fossilized whale By Meghan Bartels

Animals These Salamanders Steal Genes and Can Have up to Five Extra Sets of Chromosomes Unisexual salamanders in the genus Ambystoma appear to be the only creatures in the world that reproduce the way they do. Researchers know how, but the why is still being figured out. By Aaron Martin

Genetics How Old Can Humans Get? An expert on aging thinks humans could live to be 1,000 years old—with a few tweaks to our genetic "software" By Bill Gifford

Space Exploration NASA Detects 'Heartbeat' from Voyager 2 Spacecraft after Losing Contact A glitch may have silenced NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft until mid-October—but a "heartbeat" signal offers hope for reestablishing contact earlier By Meghan Bartels

Artificial Intelligence AI-Generated Data Can Poison Future AI Models As AI-generated content fills the Internet, it's corrupting the training data for models to come. What happens when AI eats itself? By Rahul Rao

Renewable Energy U.S. Looks to Mongolia, Wedged between China and Russia, for Critical Minerals All routes out of the landlocked country touch China or Russia, presenting diplomatic and physical challenges By Sara Schonhardt,E&E News

Artificial Intelligence Here's How AI Can Predict Hit Songs With Frightening Accuracy New AI technology predicts hit songs—by listening to someone's body.  By Sophie Bushwick,Lucy Tu | 10:27

Behavior Scientists Tickle Rats and Discover Brain's 'Play Spot' By inhibiting part of rats' brain stem, scientists may have found the play center of the brain By Timmy Broderick

BRING SCIENCE HOME Shine Bright Like a...Penny! A chemistry activity that makes good cents Credit: George Retseck "See a penny, pick it up—all day long you'll have good luck!" Maybe you've heard this phrase before, and maybe you've even stopped to pick up a lucky penny off the sidewalk. But sometimes those pennies you see on the ground look anything but lucky. They appear brown or black, and sometimes they're so dirty looking you can't even tell whether they're pennies! In this activity we're going to explore why pennies don't stay bright and shiny, and test different methods to bring their shine back!

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