Scientific News Update: May 15, 2024 – Record-breaking summers, shark risk removal, AI in badminton, ancient brittle star discovery, and more!

The scientific news of May 15, 2024 is:

In climate: The summer of 2023 was the hottest in 2,000 years, according to researchers.

• “2023 represented the hottest summer in the extra-tropical northern hemisphere in the last 2,000 years”write scientists in the journal Nature.
• They used data from tree rings to estimate temperatures before they were recorded by measuring instruments, before 1850 and up to 1 CE.
• Thus, the summer of 2023 was almost 4°C warmer than the summer of 536, when temperatures plunged due to a volcanic eruption.

In animals: 5 years after the last attack, how Reunion Island has removed the “shark risk”.

• Between 2011 and 2019, eleven people were killed by sharks in Reunion Island and several others seriously injured.
• But for five years, no attacks have been recorded. The reason, a complex risk reduction strategy.
• “The results are only positive. When we see the number of people who return to the water, the demonstrations, the associations which bring the children back…”smiles Norbert Sénescat, himself a local figure in board sports.

In high-tech: How to progress in badminton? Thanks to AI!

• Korean and American researchers have developed a biomechanical dataset, MultiSenseBadminton.
• This data should be used to improve the technique of badminton players, thanks to a training assistant based on artificial intelligence.
• In total, no less than 7763 data points were collected.

In paleontology: Discovery of a 155 million year old brittle star frozen in mid-cloning.

• The brittle star is an animal close to the starfish.
• A brittle star specimen was in the process of regenerating when it was fossilized 155 million years ago.
• It represents the oldest trace of clonal fragmentation for this class of echinoderms.

Healthy: A gel to reduce the harmful effects of alcohol on health.

• According to‘WHO, alcohol causes the death of nearly 3 million people each year worldwide.
• Researchers have developed a protein-based gel that could reduce the harmful health effects of alcohol consumption.
• Tested on mice, this gel showed a significant reduction in alcohol levels and a reduction in damage to several organs.

2024-05-15 20:53:23
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