Video games in 2025 offered a plethora of unique and spectacular experiences, from a whimsical world brimming with magical creatures to an impressively detailed depiction of feudal Japan. Yet, as the year winds down, some intriguing highlights emerge. The psychological horror title “Sleep Awake” centers around synth rock innovator Gary Numan, who takes on the rather dull role of a colossal floating head known as Hypnos.
This unexpected cameo doesn’t fully represent the overall tone of the game. The hours leading to Numan’s appearance are filled with melancholy rather than chaos. Players navigate through the decaying streets of what may be the final city on Earth. This setting showcases a remarkable level of creativity. The story unfolds through the perspective of a young woman named Katya, who traverses rooftops, surveys the desolate wasteland, and delves into convoluted alleyways. The darkness and surreal logic echo the haunting underground engravings of Italian artist Piranesi.
How did Earth become so uninhabitable, leading to the extinction of life? That’s a mystery we’ll never uncover. Instead, Katya grapples with immediate dangers. Falling asleep poses a threat of vanishing into a bizarre, unreachable realm due to a condition known as Hush. Like others endlessly fatigued in this world, Katya instills arousal serum drops into her eyes. Instantly, she is flooded with psychedelic visions and a riot of colors. It appears her plans are slipping away, much like everyone else’s. The remnants of society have been obliterated by the sleep-deprived paranoia of rival factions.
Initially driven by a desire to care for an aging relative, Katya navigates the game’s haunting, decaying environments from a first-person viewpoint. At one stage, you find yourself on a cultist’s territory, wearing a gas mask, prompting you to sneak past them by crouching under walls or surfaces to stay out of sight. But the tension is minimal; enemies follow predictable patrol paths with extremely wide detection ranges. Ultimately, this makes for a lackluster game of hide and seek.
“Sleep Awake” further disappoints in its gameplay innovation. Tasks include rolling a cart to short-circuit an electrical breaker and locating conveniently placed keycards to unlock doors. Gradually, the city’s illumination fades, revealing that you are progressing through a beautifully adorned tunnel. Surprisingly, this tunnel resembles an amusement park ghost train—light, engaging, but not particularly frightening.
This is unfortunate because “Sleep Awake” is visually striking. The exploration is interspersed with dark yet gorgeous FMV sequences, showcasing eerie silhouettes of trees against a blood-red sky and showcasing bubbling liquids in extreme close-up. At times, these unsettling visuals blend seamlessly with actual 3D environments, achieving a beautifully surreal arthouse aesthetic. This surreal vibe extends to the death screens, where being struck in the head by an enemy causes you to step out of darkness toward a brilliantly lit door. As you do so, the space morphs in real-time, resembling a hallucination, culminating in an auto-save.
The death screen stands out as a rare instance where “Sleep Awake” captures something reminiscent of dream logic and the peculiar, blurred moments between states of wakefulness and sleep. Most of the time, this narcoleptic nightmare merely showcases its psychedelic aesthetics (complete with the floating Numan), lacking interactive depth. Overall, it’s too straightforward and lacks intrigue in critical areas. You might find yourself ready to sleep now.
The human skull from Harbin, China, is currently identified as Denisovan
Hebei Geo University
Denisovans, an enigmatic group of ancient humans, were initially recognized solely through their DNA, but now they have a distinct appearance.
With molecular data, Qiaomei Fu and her team at the Institute for Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology have validated long-held suspicions among researchers.
This aligns with additional evidence that Denisovans were robust and heavyset. “I believe we observe individuals weighing around 100 kg of lean body mass: a truly massive individual,” stated Bens Viola, who was not part of the research team from the University of Toronto, Canada.
Denisovans were first discovered in 2010 in the Denisova Cave in Siberia’s Altai Mountains, where researchers found fragments of an unknown ancient hominin’s finger bone. The preserved DNA concluded that it was neither modern humans (Homo sapiens) nor Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis), but rather an entirely new species.
Moreover, genetic findings indicated that Denisovans interbred with contemporary humans. Today, populations in Southeast Asia and Melanesia carry up to 5% of Denisovan DNA, signifying their earlier presence in Asia.
Following these revelations, researchers commenced their quest for Denisovan fossils in both fieldwork and museum collections. Several fossils have since been discovered, with a notable mandible found in the Baishaya Karst Cave on the Tibetan Plateau, confirmed through fossil and DNA protein analysis from surrounding sediments. Recently, a jawbone recovered from the Peng Channel off Taiwan’s coast was also confirmed as Denisovan through preserved proteins.
Nevertheless, there remained frustrating gaps, as all confirmed Denisovan fossils obtained via molecular evidence were small, leading to limited insight. Conversely, more complete fossils from Asia were considered candidate Denisovan remains, yet none yielded molecular evidence.
Fu and her team aimed to extract preserved DNA or proteins from the human skull discovered in Harbin, northeastern China. This skull, kept under wraps for decades, was first described in 2021 and is notably large and robust, characterized by prominent brow ridges and brain size similar to modern humans. It has been dubbed Homo longi—or Dragon Man—by its discoverer.
“My impression is that this specimen is representative of what we would expect Denisovan to be, in both size and context,” Viola remarked.
Fu noted that recovering preserved molecules from the Harbin skull was an arduous task. While her team struggled to obtain DNA from the bones, they successfully retrieved 95 proteins, including three variants unique to Denisovans.
Seeking further evidence, Fu turned to dental calculus, a hardened plaque that forms on teeth, which yielded mitochondrial DNA inherited from its maternal lineage. Although she described the quantity as “small,” it was sufficient to confirm the specimen as Denisovan.
“It’s an astonishing outcome, and the efforts made were commendable,” said Saman Subroun from the National Research Centre in Burgos, Spain. “I believe many researchers tend to overlook dental calculus in genetic studies.”
With the identification of the robust Harbin skull as Denisovan, the long-suspected notion of their substantial size is now validated.
“There was a clue,” Brown noted.
The reason for their size remains unclear. Neanderthals’ robust build is linked to the cold climates of Europe and West Asia where they thrived. While Denisovan sites, including Denisova Cave and the Tibetan Plateau, were also cold, others were tropical. “We need to contemplate the implications of this,” Viola stated.
It’s possible that Denisovans varied over time. The fragments from Denisova Cave suggest two distinct groups existed: one from 217,000 to 106,000 years ago and another from 84,000 to 52,000 years ago. The Harbin skull dates back at least 146,000 years, with Fu discovering that its proteins and mitochondrial DNA align with the older group. Nevertheless, we’ve yet to locate any large Denisovan fossils in contemporary times, leaving their full appearance uncertain.
“Numerous different groups inhabited the landscape independently, often isolated from each other for tens of thousands of years,” Viola remarked. We should not presume they all bore a similar appearance.
Dr. Paul Uribe, a former military pathologist who consulted nationwide and assisted in solving a series of insulin-related murders at a veteran hospital in West Virginia, noted to NBC News that there are insufficient protocols to guide pathologists and emergency room doctors in effectively managing such cases.
“You’re not going to accidentally stumble upon an insulin murder,” Uribe remarked. “You must have a suspect and actively search for it; if you’re not investigating, you won’t discover it.”
For more information on the West Virginia case, tune in to “Devil’s in the Detailing” on “Dateline” tonight at 9 ET/8 CT on April 25th.
While these crimes are uncommon, Uribe highlighted an alarming increase in related incidents across the U.S. In Pennsylvania, several nurses confessed to attempting to murder 19 patients using insulin across five facilities between 2020 and 2023, resulting in 17 fatalities. Additionally, at the West Virginia Veterans Hospital, nurses confessed to killing seven patients with insulin in 2021.
Uribe pointed out that no state has officially established protocols for emergency room physicians and medical inspectors regarding insulin-related cases, noting that only West Virginia has attempted to address this significant oversight. Legislation introduced this year aims to obligate emergency rooms to test for insulin in patients exhibiting symptoms of insulin poisoning.
Jonathan Jones, former president of the American Academy of Emergency Medicine, expressed concerns regarding insulin overdoses but asserted that health care should not be legislated.
“The best medical care is delivered by well-educated, trained, and board-certified physicians, not legislators,” he stated in an email to NBC News. “We are committed to continuous medical education regarding this issue and support the standards for specialist physicians, but we oppose mandatory treatment directives.”
He declined to comment on whether emergency rooms should adopt stricter guidelines.
When asked if forensic pathologists need improved protocols, Reade Quinton, president of the National Association of Medical Examiners, replied, “I’m not sure that’s the right question. What medical examiners require is access to field information, witness statements, and medical records without obstruction.”
Michael and Natalie Cochran.Dateline
The chief sponsor of the West Virginia bill did not respond to requests for comment. Nevertheless, the parents of Michael Cochran, after whom the bill is named, believe this legislation could serve as a model for the nation and help others avoid the painful search for answers they endured for years.
“They shouldn’t have to wait for answers as we did,” remarked Cochran’s mother, Donna Bolt, to Dateline. “Six years.”
Seven deceased patients at VA Hospital
Uribe’s investigation into insulin-related murders began at the Veterans Hospital in Clarksburg, West Virginia, where he was tasked with examining a series of mysterious deaths among elderly patients in late 2018.
These occurrences can result from excessive insulin doses, which regulate blood glucose levels in diabetic patients.
Some veterans were diabetic, Uribe recalled, while others were not. He was requested to uncover a definitive piece of evidence that could confirm insulin as the murder weapon.
For emergency room doctors and pathologists, he noted, identifying such cases is complicated due to insulin’s rapid metabolism. The “C-peptide” test referenced in West Virginia law can detect insulin, but timing is crucial. It must be conducted before any treatment interventions for hypoglycemia are started.
“If glucose is administered, it triggers the body’s natural insulin release, negating the C-peptide measurement,” he explained.
Furthermore, many small hospitals lack access to these specific tests.
Uribe described two primary methods for pathologists to detect insulin. One prevalent method involves injection, which may leave temporary traces in body tissues at the injection site. Insulin can also be found in postmortem vitreous fluid from the eye, he noted.
In West Virginia, testing of tissue samples from seven veterans’ remains revealed trace amounts of insulin in some victims, including those without diabetes or any prior prescriptions for the drug.
“This provided conclusive evidence that they had been injected with insulin,” he stated.
W.VA.West Virginia Regional Prisons and Correctional Facility Authority via AP Files
Nursing assistant Letta Mays was later identified as the prime suspect in this case. She confessed to administering a lethal dose of insulin, pleaded guilty to seven counts of second-degree murder and one count of assault with intent to murder concerning the death of an eighth man. Mays was sentenced to seven life terms.
Deadly dose from a pharmacist
In Uribe’s subsequent case, pharmacist Natalie Cochran was convicted in January for giving her husband a lethal dose of drugs amid a conspiracy to cover up millions in fraudulent activities involving friends and relatives.
Resolving this case took several years.
In February 2019, Michael Cochran was found unresponsive and later transitioned from a ventilator to hospice care at the age of 38. His death certificate classified his cause of death as “natural.”
Michael and Natalie Cochran.Dateline
Michael Cochran’s hospital records indicated that upon admission, his blood sugar levels were dangerously low, despite his lack of any diabetes history, Uribe informed. Unfortunately, insulin testing was not conducted at that time.
Still, West Virginia State Police detective Tim Bledsoe suspected Natalie Cochran’s involvement in her husband’s demise. During a search of her home, a partially used vial of insulin was discovered in the refrigerator.
When Bledsoe questioned Natalie about the vial, she claimed it was meant for her neighbor’s diabetic son. However, the neighbor, Jennifer Davis, contradicted this, stating that Natalie had asked for insulin for herself to aid recovery from a fake cancer diagnosis that prosecutors argued she later fabricated.
Davis recalled that Natalie requested insulin the same morning Michael first became ill.
Two years after Michael Cochran’s death, his wife was charged with murder. An autopsy commenced seven months after his passing, but by then, his body was significantly decomposed, leading medical inspectors to classify the cause of death as undetermined, according to Bledsoe.
The timeline regarding the autopsy’s delay and whether insulin testing was conducted post-mortem remains unclear. The West Virginia Department of Health and the Office of Personnel, which oversees medical examinations, did not respond to inquiries.
Uribe expressed skepticism that any post-mortem evidence of insulin could have been retrieved given the elapsed time between Michael’s drug administration and his death.
The inconclusive findings, combined with the absence of concrete evidence, led the Raleigh County District Attorney to lower the charges, according to Tom Truman, the current prosecutor.
“If you lack a medical examiner advocating murder, that’s a significant concern,” he remarked to Dateline.
Re-examination yields clarity
However, two years later, the fees were re-evaluated after Uribe was invited to investigate further. During the new autopsy and examination, Uribe searched for potential injection marks, but by this time, Michael’s body had severely deteriorated, preventing any tests from being taken.
Nonetheless, Uribe noted that potential explanations for Michael Cochran’s hypoglycemia, such as infections and severe sepsis, were not documented in his medical records. Considering the circumstances surrounding his death, Uribe classified it as an insulin murder.
During the trial, the endocrinologist who testified for the prosecution conceded that there was no clear explanation for Michael Cochran’s low blood sugar levels.
Michael and Natalie Cochran.Dateline
Natalie Cochran’s defense attorneys acknowledged her involvement in fraudulent activities with various associates, whereby she also pleaded guilty to a separate federal fraud and money laundering case; however, they insisted that she was innocent of her husband’s death.
On January 29th, following two hours of deliberation, the jury found Natalie Cochran guilty of first-degree murder. She received a life sentence without the possibility of parole.
For Uribe, this case, alongside others at the Veterans Hospital, underscores an urgent need for improved insulin overdose protocols.
Such protocols could assist physicians in recognizing red flags like unexplained hypokalemia, which arises from critically low blood sugar levels in non-diabetic patients or from fatal excessive insulin use.
Additionally, he emphasized the need for C-peptide testing to be done prior to any treatment.
Pathologists should look for potential injection sites and conduct vitreous humor tests, he advised.
“If insulin can be detected in the vitreous fluid of someone with no history of diabetes or prior prescriptions, it could substantiate a case,” he concluded.
“Zosia” was buried with a padlock on her leg and an iron sickle around her neck, and was never supposed to come back to life.
The young woman buried in an unmarked cemetery in Pien, northern Poland, was one of dozens of people feared by her neighbors to be “vampires.”
Now, a team of scientists has used DNA, 3D printing, and clay modeling to reconstruct Zosia’s 400-year-old face, revealing a human story buried in supernatural beliefs.
“In a way, it’s really ironic,” says Swedish archaeologist Oskar Nilsson. “The people who buried her did everything they could to prevent her from rising from the dead…We did everything we could to bring her back to life.”
In 2022, the body of Zosia, a woman buried as a vampire, was discovered in a tomb in Pien, Poland. Nicolaus Copernicus University/Oskar Nilsson via Reuters
Zosia, as it was named by local residents, was discovered in 2022 by a team of archaeologists from Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń.
Zosia was between 18 and 20 years old at the time of her death, and analysis of her skull suggested she suffered from a health condition that could cause fainting, severe headaches and even mental health problems, Nilsson said.
According to Nicolaus Copernicus’ team, sickles, padlocks and certain types of wood found in graveyards were all believed at the time to have magical properties that could protect against vampires.
Zosia’s grave was grave number 75 in an unmarked cemetery on the outskirts of Pien, a city north of Bydgoszcz. Among the other bodies found at the scene was a “vampire” child who was buried face down with a padlock at his feet as well.
Little is known about Zosia’s life, but Nilsson and Pien’s research team believe that the items with which she was buried indicate that she came from a wealthy (possibly aristocratic) family.
Nilsson suggests that the war-torn 17th-century Europe in which she lived created a climate of fear in which belief in supernatural monsters was common.
Nilsson’s recreation began by creating a 3D-printed replica of the skull, then gradually built up layers of clay “muscle by muscle” to form a lifelike face.
He combines bone structure with information about gender, age, ethnicity, and approximate weight to estimate the depth of facial features.
“It’s emotional to see a face come back from the dead, especially when you know this young girl’s story,” Nilsson says.
Nilsson said he wanted to bring Zosia back “as a human being, not as a buried monster.”
I I've been watching the last few episodes of the Fallout series on Prime Video. It's funny and gory, sometimes sentimental, and sometimes silly. In other words, it's exactly the kind of game that oscillates between quiet, tragic moments in which you explore traces of America and scenes in which you run out of ammunition and are chased down a hill by an irradiated scorpion.
Fallout's ensemble cast – highlighted by Walton Goggins' near-immortal ghoul and Ella Purnell's wide-eyed vault-dweller – deftly compartmentalize the different facets of the game's personality. As director Jonathan Nolan pointed out in an interview last week with Bethesda's Todd Howard, game director, this is a common device in television storytelling, but rare in games. Grand Theft Auto V does it well. Each of the three main characters represents a different part of his DNA in GTA (Trevor of violent chaos, Michael of authoritative crime drama, and Franklin of Compton realism).But in most games we play One Or we shape the character so that it becomes unique to us.
It makes it difficult to adapt the game to the screen. But instead of trying to convey the experience of playing a game, Fallout takes a step back to let the broken yet strangely optimistic world of Fallout take center stage, with each character exploring different aspects of that world. is showing.
“Even if you say you're adapting Fallout 3, whose Fallout 3 are you talking about? Because the way you play that game is very different from the way I play it. Because it could have been different,” Nolan told me. “That's the beauty of this kind of game.” [Bethesda] I'm drawn to the types of games that make the most of the medium and decide who your character will be within that world. Obviously, it doesn't lead directly to the series. ”
I was interested: how did Will Nolan play Fallout 3? “I always play as a Boy Scout first because I think my parents are watching,” he said. “So I'm going to make the smart decision and try again and play as a complete heel. But then I get weird, I get uncomfortable, I end up falling into a morally compromised middle ground.” It's a little pitiful.
Aaron Moten, right, one of the stars of Fallout. Photo: Jojo Wilden/Prime Video
I can relate. chaotic good In most games where it's allowed, I'm willing to cause chaos wherever I go, and happily align myself with characters and factions in power, but I’d never do anything to hurt people. I know it’s a game, but Assumption I want it to be a no-consequences place where I can experiment with morality, but I can’t bring myself to play the villain. This is in contrast to many players I know. They immediately start causing chaos in the game world just to see what happens. The kind of person who shoots horses in Red Dead Redemption.
“Every time I get a game and test it, I immediately think, “What will this game be able to do?” No matter what we do, every time we hand the player a weapon, the first thing they see is I’m going to shoot anyone who does,” Todd Howard said with a laugh. “It could be their mother. They’ll shoot whoever it is. Then they’ll be like, ‘Well, I’ll reload.’ ”
Trying to design a choice-based game based on the random whims of the players must be a nightmare, but Howard and Bethesda have decades of experience with it. When I interviewed him over the years, he talked about how players and systems interact to create new stories, and how games make what they do in-game real and meaningful. He spoke eloquently about the unique mechanism that makes you feel as though you are in the dark. You can’t do that with TV or movies. But as the Fallout show proves, if it’s made by people who really understand it, can We tell unique stories that still capture the essence of the games people love.
Fallout is great because, while this is also true of other successful game-to-movie adaptations in recent years, Appearance Yes, the sets are perfect, and they nail the game’s retro-future, nostalgic aesthetic. That’s because Nolan and screenwriters Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Graham Wagner actually played Fallout, understood it, and felt the power of its storytelling for themselves. Rather than trying to clumsily adapt the game’s story into a TV script, they wrote an amazing game expansion fan fiction on a very high budget. I’m all for this approach. Now that we have a generation of TV producers and filmmakers who grew up with games and truly understand them, I would like to see more of them.
Objects visible through glare-free materials are clear, but traditional anti-glare films (right) blur the view.
Mu Wang et al/Nanjing University
Glare-free windows can be made from materials studded with billions of tiny metal patches. This leaves the one-way window matte – it looks opaque and reflects only 1% of the light from outside – but it is still transparent, so it doesn’t blur your view or significantly reduce the amount of light it lets in. You may be able to secure the privacy of your car or office without having to worry about it. They let them in.
Mu Wan Nanjing University in China and his colleagues have created a glass-like material with a matte finish similar to frosted glass, called transparent material surface (TMS). Unlike existing anti-glare coatings and films, objects can be viewed and photographed through TMS without blur.
Wang notes that matte and transparent are typically mutually exclusive properties. To accomplish both at the same time, he and his team coated the material with nanosized patches that scatter and reflect light in just the right way. They make these parts from reflective metals like gold and materials like silicon that conduct electricity poorly, which reduces the amount of light reflected. They then placed billions of them onto glass wafers.
They tested it by shining a light on it and found that a camera with a TMS wafer over the lens could reflect just 1.3% of the light while transmitting enough light to take clear photos. . The researchers also asked the AI to identify a tennis ball on the other side, combined with a camera connected to the AI that labels the object. The AI was successful when viewing the ball through TMS, but labeled the ball as “unidentified” when viewing through the blur created by traditional anti-glare film.
“The most exciting part of the experiment for us was the interesting moment when we saw the freshly prepared 4-inch sample with our own eyes for the first time without any special equipment. The material became transparent when light passed through it. It was difficult to imagine that there would be no distortion in the image, but it would look dull when reflecting light,” says Wang.
Simon Horsley Researchers at the University of Exeter in the UK say the material is suitable for making “very large windows” and could help reduce light pollution. Reflections are a major source of light pollution, and this material helps minimize light pollution by reflecting soft, diffused light instead of annoying bright glare.
FOr James, it started with muscles. He was about 16 years old, he was confident in his body shape and worried that he wasn't strong enough to attract girls. He went to bodybuilding forums and started doing his workouts. I don't remember when it happened, but at some point trolls started invading the forums. They were visitors from different online communities with different focuses.
“Their whole vibe was pretty mean,” says James, who did not want to give his real name. “They would take pictures of their great physiques that people posted and say, 'You guys forgot to work out your face!'”
Despite the meanness, James was flooded with curiosity on forums primarily focused on facial aesthetics. He discovers a new world, primarily a young man and his teenage boys, scouring each other's photos for possible flaws and fixes.
The forum was filled with brutal judgments, providing James with a compelling new outlet for his anxiety. “I was learning about issues I wasn't even aware of,” he says. “I had a short face, a short chin, a nose that was too wide, eyes that were too far apart, and a hairline that was too high. A lot of these things you don't notice until someone points them out to you.” I can't stop seeing you. ”
James was hooked on LooksMaxThing, an online community for people who want to beautify their faces. He began learning strange codes that members use to compare their features. Eye angle (eye angle). Meow meow (a tongue movement that is said to improve the shape of the jaw). “The ultimate goal is to improve SMV,” he says. In other words, sexual market value.
Kareem Shami promotes non-surgical soft maxing (2020) (left) And in 2023.
Looksmaxxing has been around for at least a decade, but in recent months it has exploded from obscure forums and Reddit pages to mainstream social media, especially TikTok. An incredibly chiseled chin, pouty lips, and cheekbones as high as the Egyptian pyramids are complemented by “hunter” eyes (slanted slightly downward toward the nose, meaning the corners of the eyes are positively slanted). It is highly prized along with other people.
I felt like an outcast and it triggered something in me.
“The majority of the groups we work with are now LookMax conscious,” says Mike Nicholson, a former teacher who runs a workshop program in schools called Progressive Masculinity. says. The day after a report by researchers from University College London and the University of Kent found that TikTok's algorithm amplified misogynistic content and helped normalize it on playgrounds, he talking to. (In response, TikTok said it removed the misogynistic content it had banned and questioned the report's methodology.)
“We approach this issue from a very sympathetic perspective,” Nicholson added. “But the world that these young people and boys live in is a world that is increasing their insecurities and leading them down this path that can lead to 'incel' ideology if they are not careful. –
James, who is in his 20s and works in finance in the UK, started participating in forums around 2015, when they were still niche. He started “Soft Max Thing,” which is tweaking hair styling, skin care regimens, diet, exercise regimens, and more. But as the site held up an increasingly harsh mirror, he began exploring a more extreme fix known as “hardmaxing.”
Feedback is promising a bonanza of new pharmaceutical, medical and lifestyle product launches that propose boosting hyaluronic acid levels for everyone. Hyaluronic acid is a substance recently found to provide some protection to naked mole rat cells from inflammation and early death.
Marketers who specialize in mass inflammation cannot afford to miss this situation. Journal of Experimental BiologyFeeling grateful for hyaluronic acid. Under the heading is “Anti-aging secrets from underground burrowing rodents” says the magazine. “Most cells live within a blanket of molecules and minerals called the extracellular matrix. In naked mole rats, this blanket is woven from a thicker fabric. Naked mole rats produce the heavier, larger molecule hyaluronic acid, which is the backbone of this extracellular matrix.
“This extra padding protects cells from inflammation and premature death, as shown by Andrei Seruanov and Vera Gorbunova's team at the University of Rochester in the US.”
The report ends with this almost poetic wink. “The fountain of youth may be embodied in the heavy hyaluronic acid of the naked mole rat, a nearly blind rodent with many wrinkles and yellowed teeth.”
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After Mallard's gay necrophilia became known to the world 20 years ago, many more reports of “Davian behavior” entered the public record. A quick update here.
This topic received a lot of attention in 2003 when Dutch ornithologist Keith Moeliker won an award. Ig Nobel Prize His now famous paper “The First Case of Homosexual Necrophilia in Mallard Ducks” Anas Platyrhynchus”. Mr. Mauliker talked about two ducks that encountered the Davian bird. The necrotic behavior is called “Davian” here because American ornithologist Robert W. Dickman published a paper in 1960. This is because he gave the necrotic act a new name: “Davian.''Ground squirrel's “Davian behavioral complex”” was published. mammal journal.
High-profile, hard-hitting reports sometimes take a literary turn, like a 2015 paper about South American snakes.The sexual appeal of corpse brides: unusual mating behavior of Helicops carinicaudus (Dipsadidae)”, by Raíssa Siqueira and colleagues at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. They write: “We observed a young male mating with a headless female by fully inserting her hemipenis. Specimens were collected, dissected and measured.”
Some medical papers have very intriguing and frightening titles. For those who like horror novels, the title will almost make you want to skip reading the study itself.
Why avoid a complete study? Because when a person's imagination is overstimulated, it can conjure up strange things. By comparison, the actual details you can go and see for yourself may seem mundane, dull, and even relatively boring. Reading them can lead to literary disappointment and dissatisfaction, and in some cases even death of curiosity.
In feedback, if you find an unexpected title for a published scientific report, please submit it. Please include a full citation and link to the paper. Send to: “Very scary title” feedback.
Mark Abrahams hosted the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony and co-founded the magazine Annals of Improbable Research. Previously, he was working on unusual uses of computers.his website is impossible.com.
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Diagram of exoplanet K2-18b based on scientific observations
NASA, ESA, CSA, Joseph Olmstead (STScI)
The types of planets thought to be able to support life may actually be covered in hot magma. Previously thought to have oceans of liquid water, the chemistry of these so-called high sea exoplanets may instead indicate oceans of magma.
Oliver Shortle Researchers from the University of Cambridge used observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) of the exoplanet K2-18b to reach this conclusion. This world is typically Hycean. This is the name given to a planet with a hydrogen-rich atmosphere above a liquid ocean. These planets also tend to be between Earth and Neptune in size, and the chemicals in their atmospheres suggest the presence of liquid water on their surfaces, making them a prime search for extraterrestrial life. It has become a target.
But recent models of K2-18b's climate suggest it may be hotter than previously thought, hot enough to cause oceans of water to boil away long ago. “From a theoretical perspective regarding the situation here on Earth, it's like the ground is moving beneath our feet,” Schotle says.
The researchers investigated how it would affect Earth's atmospheric chemistry if these oceans were made of magma instead of water. This would be consistent with the expected high temperatures. They found this to be consistent with his JWST observations as well as water bodies.
“These two fundamentally different regimes are very similar,” Schotle says. “Detecting habitable conditions for super-Earths and sub-Neptune-sized planets will be more complex than we expected.”
This means that we probably need more detailed data to tell the difference between a potentially habitable world with oceans of water and a world of burning, inhospitable magma. For K2-18b, Schotle said his additional JWST observations over the next few years should resolve this issue. And when it comes to other Heim worlds, we may need to develop new ideas for how to find liquid water.
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