{"id":4578,"date":"2023-10-01T21:13:27","date_gmt":"2023-10-01T21:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/?p=4578"},"modified":"2023-10-01T21:13:27","modified_gmt":"2023-10-01T21:13:27","slug":"science-news-briefs-from-around-the-world-october-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/?p=4578","title":{"rendered":"Science News Briefs from around the World: October 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"sa_body\">\n<article>\n<header class=\"article-header container \">\n<div class=\"article-header__inner\">\n<p class=\"t_article-subtitle\">Mammals munching on dinosaurs in China, Greenland\u2019s melted previous, coral disaster in Florida, and way more on this month\u2019s Fast Hits<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"article-progress\" data-behavior=\"article_progress\">\n<div class=\"article-grid-outer container \">\n<div class=\"article-grid\">\n<aside class=\"article-grid__share\"\/>\n<section class=\"article-grid__main\">\n<figure aria-label=\"media\" itemscope=\"\" itemid=\"https:\/\/static.scientificamerican.com\/sciam\/cache\/file\/8840B5FB-E645-4C90-9A9528C564BA2CF1_source.jpeg?w=590&amp;h=800&amp;108403C1-9D83-45F0-AC1E43CAA74E7487\" itemprop=\"image\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" class=\"article-media \" id=\"image-1\">\n<div class=\"article-media__object \"><picture><source media=\"(min-width: 768px) and (max-width: 1023px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.scientificamerican.com\/sciam\/cache\/file\/8840B5FB-E645-4C90-9A9528C564BA2CF1_source.jpeg?w=690&amp;h=930&amp;108403C1-9D83-45F0-AC1E43CAA74E7487\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.scientificamerican.com\/sciam\/cache\/file\/8840B5FB-E645-4C90-9A9528C564BA2CF1_source.jpeg?w=390&amp;h=520&amp;108403C1-9D83-45F0-AC1E43CAA74E7487\"><source media=\"(min-width: 768px) and (max-width: 1023px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.scientificamerican.com\/sciam\/cache\/file\/8840B5FB-E645-4C90-9A9528C564BA2CF1_source.jpeg?w=690&amp;h=930&amp;108403C1-9D83-45F0-AC1E43CAA74E7487\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.scientificamerican.com\/sciam\/cache\/file\/8840B5FB-E645-4C90-9A9528C564BA2CF1_source.jpeg?w=390&amp;h=520&amp;108403C1-9D83-45F0-AC1E43CAA74E7487\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" importance=\"high\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/static.scientificamerican.com\/sciam\/cache\/file\/8840B5FB-E645-4C90-9A9528C564BA2CF1_source.jpeg?w=590&amp;h=800&amp;108403C1-9D83-45F0-AC1E43CAA74E7487\" width=\"590\" height=\"800\" alt=\"Science News Briefs from around the World: October 2023\" itemprop=\"url\"\/><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\"t_caption\"> Credit score: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/multimedia\/imagegallery\/image_feature_1056.html\">NASA<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"aside-banner medium-up-hide\"><figcaption class=\"aside-banner__label\">Commercial<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"article-block article-text\" data-behavior=\"newsletter_promo dfp_article_rendering\" data-dfp-adword=\"Advertisement\" data-newsletterpromo_article-text=\"&lt;p&gt;Sign up for &lt;em&gt;Scientific American&lt;\/em&gt;&amp;rsquo;s free newsletters.&lt;\/p&gt;\" data-newsletterpromo_article-image=\"https:\/\/static.scientificamerican.com\/sciam\/cache\/file\/4641809D-B8F1-41A3-9E5A87C21ADB2FD8_source.png\" data-newsletterpromo_article-button-text=\"Sign Up\" data-newsletterpromo_article-button-link=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/page\/newsletter-sign-up\/?origincode=2018_sciam_ArticlePromo_NewsletterSignUp\" name=\"articleBody\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div class=\"mura-region mura-region-loose\">\n<div class=\"mura-region-local\">\n<h2>AUSTRALIA<\/h2>\n<p>Australia is the primary nation to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-australia-66072427\">legalize psilocybin and MDMA<\/a> for the therapy of melancholy and post-traumatic stress dysfunction. As scientific trials for these and different psychedelics achieve momentum worldwide, Australia might be a mannequin for governments contemplating regulation of those substances as medicines.<\/p>\n<h2>CHINA<\/h2>\n<p>A 125-million-year-old fossil of a badgerlike animal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/mammals-preyed-on-much-larger-dinosaurs-a-stunning-new-fossil-reveals\">biting a beaked dinosaur<\/a> was unearthed in northeastern China. Most paleontologists thought mammals solely scavenged dinosaur stays, however the discover suggests early mammals hunted stay dinosaurs a number of occasions their dimension.<\/p>\n<h2>GREENLAND<\/h2>\n<p>A mile-thick ice sheet in Greenland <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/climate-environment\/2023\/07\/20\/greenland-ice-melt-history-global-warming\/\">melted during a period of moderate warming<\/a> 416,000 years in the past, sediments present. This overturns long-held beliefs that the island remained an icy fortress for the previous 2.5 million years, revealing its vulnerability to immediately&#8217;s human-induced local weather change.<\/p>\n<h2>KENYA<\/h2>\n<p>Development has begun on a 35-megawatt <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencenews.org\/article\/geothermal-energy-africa-kenya-renewable-electricity\">geothermal power project<\/a> in Menengai, Kenya, the highest geothermal-energy-producing nation in Africa. Geothermal vegetation present 47 % of Kenya&#8217;s vitality, and manufacturing is anticipated to develop as droughts scale back hydropower sources.<\/p>\n<h2>LAOS<\/h2>\n<p>Human cranium and shinbone fossils <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-023-01903-3\">found in a Laos cave<\/a> counsel fashionable people arrived in mainland Southeast Asia as much as 36,000 years sooner than thought. This discovery challenges hypotheses that people quickly unfold from Africa via Asia 80,000 years in the past.<\/p>\n<h2>U.S.<\/h2>\n<p>Ocean temperatures off Florida <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/climate-environment\/2023\/07\/26\/florida-coral-reef-ocean-temperatures-heat\/\">spiked to a record 100 degrees Fahrenheit<\/a>, inflicting the worst coral-bleaching occasion within the state&#8217;s historical past. Conservationists say some reefs face \u201c100% coral mortality,\u201d that means the reefs will not recuperate with out energetic, ongoing restoration work.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<section class=\"article-print-title\">\n<p>This text was initially revealed with the title &#8220;Fast Hits&#8221; in Scientific American  329, 3, 17 (October 2023)<\/p>\n<p>doi:10.1038\/scientificamerican1023-17b<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"article-author-container\">\n<h3 class=\"article-author-container__title\">ABOUT THE AUTHOR(S)<\/h3>\n<section class=\"article-author\">\n<div class=\"article-author__main\">\n<p class=\"article-author__desc t_body t_body--article\"><strong>Lucy Tu<\/strong> is a 2023 AAAS Mass Media Fellow at <em>Scientific American<\/em>. 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