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A South Korean team led by Elijah Chong-hyun Kim has matched The Starry Night with the pre-dawn sky over Saint-Rémy-de-Provence around 22 July 1889 — a month later than the commonly accepted dating. Independent physicist José Luis Aragón calls the conclusion 'an intriguing hypothesis', noting that the sky in the painting was probably assembled from several nights.
Aziz KarimovResearchers at the University of Illinois Chicago found that natural cranberry juice without added sugar reduces the activity of acid-producing bacteria and slows plaque formation. The effect is linked to proanthocyanidins. The authors emphasize that further research is needed due to the small sample size and short observation period.
Javlon TursunovChinese researchers have created the SALF-Net model, which assigns emotional labels to music in short clips even with distortions and absence of song lyrics. On a collection of 30,000 human-labeled clips it outperformed systems from Alibaba and NVIDIA. A lightweight version labels more than 12 million clips per day on a single graphics card.
Sevara AzamovaCambridge scientists described a 15 mm diameter hole in the left shoulder blade of a Neanderthal from Shanidar Cave in Iraqi Kurdistan. In their view, the spear passed through the chest, likely damaging the lung and major vessels. This may be the earliest evidence of lethal violence with a wooden spear, although a hunting accident cannot be ruled out.
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