Volcanologists say the mountain isn’t erupting, yet it’s stirring. The air above the ridge is turning thorny and metallic, a caution flag for pilots and a puzzle for the scientists who listen to rocks. In a place where weather already rules the day, the sky just picked up a new voice.

The first hint wasn’t dramatic. It was a smell—faint, almost shy—like a match just struck and blown out on an icy ridge. A pilot crossing the Aleutians radioed a hazy strip hanging off a lonely summit, not smoke, not weather, something in between. Out on the gravel bar, a field tech rubbed a gloved thumb across a thin yellow smear on late spring snow and didn’t say a word. A satellite pass, then another, traced a ribbon of sulfur above open water. The mountain had gone from silence to a whisper. That whisper could carry.

Mayan calendar specialists anticipated solar eclipses by correlating their occurrences with dates in their 260-day calendar.

CISA warns of VMware zero-day exploited by China-linked hackers before Broadcom patch.

New “Brash” flaw lets attackers crash Chromium browsers in under a minute using DOM overloads.

Theorists have proposed a universal recipe for trying to quickly prepare a system in a desired ground state without exciting it.

A collection of mutually repelling objects can be forced into the same arrangement, whether they are magnets, soap bubbles, or hard spheres.

A research group at The University of Tokyo has discovered a new principle by which helical chiral molecules acquire spin through molecular vibrations, enabling them to adhere to magnets. Until now, it was believed that chiral molecules could only exhibit magnetic properties when an electric current was applied. This discovery overturns that conventional understanding.

Chiral molecules, which have a helical structure, are known to interact with magnets in a phenomenon known as chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS). For instance, when a chiral molecule is connected to a magnet and an electric current is applied, magnetoresistance effects can be observed. It has also been reported that magnets can be used to separate right-handed and left-handed chiral molecules.

The prevailing explanation is that the flow of current through a chiral molecule induces magnetic properties, similar to an electromagnet. However, this explanation has limitations, as it does not fully account for the large magnetoresistance effects or CISS phenomena observed even in the absence of an electric current.

All animals are sentient they just have different language than humans but it is very similar.

Scientists are re-examining what signs of intelligence mean for animals.

“don’t try to read the glyphs”. Yes, Gemini is pretty dyslexic. Grok Imagine is a little better but I often have to fix 2 or 3 letters on something from Grok that has 20 words, etc.

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