Saturday Citations: Promising Solutions for Upset Stomachs; Earthly Explanation for 'Alien' Signal Revealed. Also: Exciting Video Discovery

March 9, 2024, report

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There are unbelievable observations, including rodents consuming herbal treatments and a truck misinterpreted as an extraterrestrial message. These instances disappear in time, similar to the Upper West Side being succumbed by land subsidence.

The bright yellow compound in turmeric, curcumin, may demonstrate a significant change in the gut microbiota in mice suffering from intestinal inflammation, according to Brazilian study findings. This supports the theory of curcumin as an anti-inflammatory agent and a potential solution for autoimmune and anxiety disorders.

Although curcumin holds such potential, it has low bioavailability when ingested orally. An alternative method includes adding black pepper compound which boosts the uptake of curcumin. In the referenced study, mice suffering from intestinal discomfort were treated with an emulsion of curcumin nanoparticles, which resulted in an increased presence of beneficial gut microbiota, including Lactobacillus.

The ultimate goal for this research is to find an inexpensive cure for conditions like inflammatory bowel disease.

In an intriguing revelation titled 'Interstellar signal linked to aliens was actually just a truck' by Johns Hopkins University, it has been clarified that the sound waves attributed to a 2014 meteor fireball were in fact caused by a truck's vibrations.

Planetary seismologist Benjamin Fernando pointed to the changes in the direction of the sound waves that corresponded exactly with a roadway, supporting the truck and not meteor theory.

New Yorkers have noticed an unusually high horizon line, an observation that isn't mistaken. Land subsidence is impacting coastal cities worldwide due to the disappearance of subsurface material and depletion of natural aquifers, damaging critical infrastructure and water supplies.

Researchers have now used deep learning artificial intelligence to make the first global predictions of land subsidence. They found that approximately 6.3 million square km of Earth's surface are at risk of significant subsidence; urban areas housing nearly 2 billion people are among those susceptible regions. Depletion of groundwater is a major cause of land subsidence.

Researchers advise that groundwater extraction should be replaced with alternatives like seawater desalination and wastewater treatment.

Recent observations suggest that red supergiant Betelgeuse may be spinning faster than previously thought. However, this claim has been challenged by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics who suggest that the observed rapid spinning could be a visual effect caused by the star's boiling surface.

But this is an illusion, according to the researchers, who say instead that the changes in apparent brightness are caused by the violently boiling surface of the star. Using the ALMA data, they made a video, which is the whole point of this paragraph and which I am not embedding here, but click through and check it out. This thing could be a Doom enemy and it would definitely get a cutscene when it entered the arena.

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