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I was lucky enough to catch an awesome glimpse of the northern lights from my own home this month when the biggest solar storm to reach Earth in two decades made auroras visible at latitudes much farther south than usual. Despite living in the light-filled streets of central London, my smartphone camera picked up a green haze and a pulsing sheet of purple and pink light. Capturing the moment was an unforgettable experience and one that I had thought would involve expensive travel to the northernmost reaches of our planet. The storms that create spectacular auroras such as those I witnessed originate…

Jon Bon Jovi has “no desire” to join the trend of artists selling off their music catalogs. Many well-known entertainers — Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, Kiss, Katy Perry and Justin Bieber — have collected huge paydays in recent years by selling the rights to their songs, including royalties they would be paid when their music is used or listened to. On the list is Bon Jovi’s former songwriting partner, Richie Sambora, who exited the band in 2013 and sold his catalog in 2020, including his copyrights to hits that he co-wrote with the frontman (like “You Give Love a Bad…

A second dairy farm worker — this time in Michigan — has contracted bird flu in the United States this year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed in a May 22 press statement. In April the CDC confirmed the first human case of the year, a dairy farm worker infected in Texas. Both infected individuals had prolonged close contact with infected cattle and only experienced pink eye as a symptom. The CDC maintains that the risk to the general public is “low.” Nonetheless, the Department of Health and Human Services has set plans in motion to make 4.8…

Astronomers have spotted the oldest “dead” galaxy ever observed while studying the cosmos with the James Webb Space Telescope, and it’s one of the deepest views into the distant universe made with the observatory to date. The galaxy existed when the universe was only about 700 million years into its current age of about 13.8 billion years. But something made the galaxy suddenly halt star formation almost as quickly as star birth had begun more than 13 billion years ago, and the researchers have yet to uncover the cause. A report describing the discovery appeared Wednesday in the journal Nature. Studying…

We breathe, eat and drink tiny particles of plastic. But are these minuscule specks in the body harmless, dangerous or somewhere in between? A small study published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine raises more questions than it answers about how these bits — microplastics and the smaller nanoplastics — might affect the heart. The Italian study has weaknesses, but is likely to draw attention to the debate over the problem of plastic pollution. Most plastic waste is never recycled and breaks down into these particles. “The study is intriguing. However, there are really substantial limitations,” said Dr. Steve Nissen,…

Four children born with HIV were able to live virus-free for more than a year after their HIV medication was paused, according to results of a study funded by the National Institutes of Health. The results of the P1115 study were announced on Wednesday at the 2024 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI), in Denver, Colorado. The study explored the effects of early intensive antiretroviral therapy on achieving HIV remission in babies who acquired the virus before birth. HIV hides inside the body, meaning their HIV eventually returned. However, the fact that they were able to live for more…

Getting only a few hours of sleep per day may do more harm than just causing a groggy day at the office — it may put you at higher risk for developing type 2 diabetes, a new study has found. Compared with people who got seven to eight hours of sleep per day, those who slept less than six hours daily had a higher risk of developing type 2 diabetes later in life, according to the study published Tuesday in the journal JAMA Network Open. “Previous research has shown that (insufficient rest on a daily basis) increases the risk of type 2 diabetes, while healthy dietary…

For 10 years, Americans have had access to flu shots that protect against four strains of the virus: two A strains and two B strains. Starting this fall, however, all the flu shots distributed in the United States will contain only three strains, and the change happened in part because of Covid-19. On Tuesday, a panel of experts who advise the US Food and Drug Administration on vaccines voted unanimously to recommend three-strain flu vaccines that will exclude any viruses from B strains that are part of branch of the flu’s family tree called Yamagata. Yamagata viruses were in decline…

Jack Black had some kind words to say about one of his former castmates. The “Kung-Fu Panda 4” star told “Entertainment Tonight” that one actress immediately came to mind when he was asked who his favorite costar has been. “Kate Winslet and I’ll tell you why. She was my favorite co-star I’ve ever had because when you look in her eyes, she was like really present. I feel like if you look into my eyes, you just see a shadow of a robot,” Black said. The two starred in the 2006 rom-com “The Holiday.” They played a couple who fell in love after Winslet’s character, Iris, house-swapped…

Facebook and Instagram hosted ads that featured a blurred fake nude image of an underage celebrity used to promote an app that billed itself as a way to make sexually explicit images with artificial intelligence. A review of Meta’s ad library showed that the company behind the app ran 11 ads that used a manipulated, blurred photo of “Wednesday” actor Jenna Ortega, taken when she was 16 years old. The ads appeared on the two platforms as well as its Messenger app for most of February. The app, called Perky AI, advertised that it could undress women with artificial intelligence. The…