The Earth's Fifth Layer

Today you’ll learn about how scientists are using AI to talk to animals, the discovery of new, very big, very old candidate galaxies, and how there just may be an extra layer in the earth’s inner core.

AI Animal Translator 

• “How Scientists Are Using AI to Talk to Animals” by Sophie Bushwick
  • https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-scientists-are-using-ai-to-talk-to-animals/
• “Bat Chatter Is More Than a Cry in the Dark” By Christopher Intagliata
  • https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/bat-chatter-is-more-than-a-cry-in-the-dark/
• “In Honeybee Dance, Direction Is Key” By Kate Wong
  • https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/in-honeybee-dance-directi/

Big Old Galaxies  

• “Webb telescope spots super old, massive galaxies that shouldn’t exist” by Daniel Strain
  • https://www.colorado.edu/today/2023/02/22/webb-telescope-spots-super-old-massive-galaxies-shouldnt-exist
• “A population of red candidate massive galaxies ~600 Myr after the Big Bang” by Ivo Labbé et al.
  • https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-05786-2
• “New space telescope to peer back at the universe’s first galaxies” by Daniel Strain
  • https://www.colorado.edu/today/2021/11/10/new-space-telescope-peer-back-universes-first-galaxies
• “First Galaxies Born Sooner After Big Bang Than Thought” By Space.com Staff (from 2011; for compare/contrast on old data versus new)
  • https://www.space.com/11386-galaxies-formation-big-bang-hubble-telescope.html
• “How Did Galaxies Form?” by David J. Eicher (from 2019; same note as above link)
  • https://astronomy.com/magazine/greatest-mysteries/2019/07/5-how-did-galaxies-form
• “Two Remarkably Luminous Galaxy Candidates at z ≈ 10–12 Revealed by JWST” by Rohan P. Naidu et al.
  • https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ac9b22
• “Quasars: Brightest Objects in the Universe” By Nola Taylor Tillman
  • https://www.space.com/11386-galaxies-formation-big-bang-hubble-telescope.html

Inner Inner Core

• “Bouncing seismic waves reveal distinct layer in Earth's inner core” by AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY
  • https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/980308
• “Up-to-fivefold reverberating waves through the Earth’s center and distinctly anisotropic innermost inner core” by Thanh-Son Phạm & Hrvoje Tkalčić
  • https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-36074-2
• “Core” by National Geographic
  • https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/core/

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