Category: Shorts

Aurora Borealis Spotted on the Sun! #shorts #lasting polarized radio bursts #emissions #sunspot #magnetic fields Yo, check it out! Scientists discovered a big ol’ radio burst comin’ from our sun last year. It was so powerful, it lasted for over a week! That’s like, way longer than any other solar radio burst we’ve seen before.…

Did a Gamma Ray Burst Just **Nearly Destroy** Earth? #shorts #GRB #event #ionosphere #researchers BREAKING NEWS! The most powerful gamma-ray burst ever recorded (GRB 221009A) 💥💥💥 blasted our ionosphere 🤯🤯🤯 and scientists are like, “Whoa! That was intense!” The burst was so strong it reached the bottom layers of the ionosphere, about 50 kilometers (30…

YouTube is killing AI podcasts with this one weird trick! #shorts #YouTube #one #podcasts #former late-night host YouTube’s new AI rules will (and will not) affect podcasting.** But what do they mean for the Israel-Palestinian conflict? And what are your favorite podcasts on the topic? Find out all this and more on this week’s episode…

Quicksand: The Deadly Movie Myth You Never Knew #shorts #quicksand #Advertisement Advertisement #sinking sand #water Quicksand, as it turns out, is a relatively insignificant threat to your well-being and scarcely ever appears in adult life. That said, this slurry-like solution is a real thing and certainly something that should be taken seriously. Despite what you…

“”What Happened to the Massive Star That Vanished from the Kinman Dwarf Galaxy?”” #shorts #such star #team #giant stars #decrease Scientists have discovered a massive star that has mysteriously vanished! The star, which was once 2.5 million times brighter than our sun, was spotted in 1962 but then disappeared sometime between 2011 and 2016. Astronomers…

Can AI Tell If Your CEO Is Lying? #shorts #asset management company #speech #head researcher #things Investors are using AI to analyze the speech of CEOs in an effort to figure out their underlying emotional states. This could allow them to determine their next move. But executives are catching on and are now trying to…

Dark Matter: The Invisible Element That Could Make Up Our Universe #shorts #dark matter #false vacuum #bottom #particles Hey everyone, it’s time for a science update! Did you know that there’s a new theory about dark matter? It’s called Recycled Dark Matter, and it’s pretty wild. Basically, it says that dark matter forms twice in…

YouTubers Using AI? You’ll Be Shocked By What They’re Creating! #shorts #AI #artists #Googles attempted response #AI-generated or other synthetic or altered content Attention all content creators! YouTube is making a change to its platform. Starting soon, all AI-generated or manipulated videos will require a disclaimer. That’s right, no more deepfakes or misleading videos without…

Face Case AI Fake Faces Fake Faces #shorts #AI #AI-generated images #non-white people #participants New study finds that people can’t tell the difference between AI-generated faces and real faces, especially when the faces are white.** Researchers say this is because AI is getting better at creating hyper-realistic images, and that people are more likely to…

Can You Make Money Creating Deepfakes of Your Friends? #shorts #Disturbing Civitai #bounty #public figures #platform Here’s a twist on a popular AI platform called Civitai: Instead of building an image-generating machine, you post a bounty to build a model that can generate hyper-specific images. Other users attempt to build the desired model, and the…