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This week successful science: The Sun is flaring up unexpectedly; a 60-year diabetes enigma whitethorn yet beryllium solved; the oldest quality mummies aren't what we expected; and overmuch more!
Our Sun Is Becoming More Active And NASA Doesn't Know Why
A snapshot of star enactment captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory successful 2013. (NASA/Goddard/SDO)According to NASA, the Sun has been getting strangely much progressive since 2008, going beyond its accustomed 11-year rhythm of star activity.
"All signs were pointing to the Sun going into a prolonged signifier of debased activity," says plasma physicist Jamie Jasinski of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). "So it was a astonishment to spot that inclination reversed. The Sun is dilatory waking up."
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After 60 Years, Diabetes Drug Found to Unexpectedly Impact The Brain
An illustration showing however metformin works successful the body. (Behnoush Hajian/Science Photo Library/Getty Images)After 60 years, scientists whitethorn person yet figured retired however the communal diabetes cause metformin works: It acts straight connected the brain.
"It's been wide accepted that metformin lowers humor glucose chiefly by reducing glucose output in the liver," says Makoto Fukuda, a pathophysiologist astatine Baylor College of Medicine. "Other studies person recovered that it acts done the gut. We investigated whether and however the encephalon contributes to the anti-diabetic effects of metformin."
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Oldest Human Mummies Discovered, And They're Not What We Expected
The Dani radical of New Guinea behaviour akin rituals today. (Hirofumi Matsumura and Hsiao-chun Hung)The oldest known quality mummies person been identified successful southeast Asia: past remains smoke-mummified up to 12,000 years ago.
That's respective thousands of years older than the cultures champion known for mummification, the Chinchorro radical of Chile, who were mummifying their dormant 7,000 years ago, and the past Egyptians, who were practicing the trade 5,600 years ago.
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Parkinson's Disease Could Be Ignited by Burned-Out Brain Cells
Illustration of a neuron. (koto_feja/iStock/Getty Images Plus)A caller survey into Parkinson's illness whitethorn person uncovered the basal cause: Neurons are being overworked and dying of 'burnout'.
The researchers suggest determination mightiness beryllium a vicious rhythm astatine work, wherever overactive neurons dice disconnected and past the remaining neurons go much progressive to compensate. It's a small similar lightbulbs becoming excessively agleam and blowing out.
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Stunningly Complete Dome-Headed Dinosaur Emerges From The Sands of Mongolia
The skull of Zavacephale rinpoche. (Tsogtbaatar Chinzorig)A stunningly well-preserved fossil of a dome-headed dinosaur has been recovered successful Mongolia. It's the oldest and astir implicit of its kind.
"The archetypal clip I saw Zavacephale, it virtually took my enactment away," paleontologist Lindsay Zanno of North Carolina State University told ScienceAlert. "Everyone who has seen it is successful awe."
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Physicists Propose a 'Neutrino Laser' Straight Out of Science Fiction
(Jose-Luis Olivares/MIT/iStock)MIT physicists person projected a mode to marque a 'neutrino laser', which could let america to survey immoderate of the astir profound cosmic questions.
Catching a neutrino successful the enactment is simply a numbers game, and our existent champion experiments impact watching gigantic volumes of h2o oregon ice, successful environments with small interference, and waiting for the uncommon lawsuit erstwhile 1 smacks into a nucleus wrong sight. Knowing wherever neutrinos volition be, wrong a overmuch smaller volume, helps rig that crippled successful our favor.
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