{"id":296156,"date":"2025-10-12T02:19:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T02:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/296156\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T02:19:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T02:19:23","slug":"a-bizarre-bird-the-end-of-the-universe-and-more-sciencealert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/296156\/","title":{"rendered":"A Bizarre Bird, The End of The Universe, And More! : ScienceAlert"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week in science: A strange hybrid bird; the cancer clues hidden in your toenails; a reverse Big Bang; and much more!<\/p>\n

Huge Study Links 99% of Heart Attacks And Strokes With 4 Risk Factors\"Heart(zf L\/Moment\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

A huge study has linked 99 percent of all heart attacks and strokes to four risk factors: high blood pressure, high cholesterol, high blood sugar, and smoking.<\/p>\n

High blood pressure was the factor most commonly tied to cardiovascular events. In both the US and South Korea, more than 93 percent of individuals who experienced a heart attack, stroke, or heart failure had hypertension beforehand.<\/p>\n

Managing this risk factor could be key to preventing serious cardiovascular disease down the road.<\/p>\n

Read the full story here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The 2025 Nobel Prizes Were Awarded This Week, Celebrating Major Scientific Breakthroughs\"This(Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg)<\/a>\/CC BY SA 4.0<\/a>)<\/p>\n

This year, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Shimon Sakaguchi from Osaka University in Japan, Mary E. Brunkow from the Institute for System Biology and Fred Ramsdell from Sonoma Biotherapeutics, both in the US, for discovering how the body stops its own immune system from turning against itself.<\/p>\n

Read the full story here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Nobel Prize in Physics went to Briton John Clarke, Frenchman Michel Devoret, and American John Martinis for putting quantum mechanics into action and enabling the development of all kinds of digital technology from cellphones to a new generation of computers.<\/p>\n

Read the full story here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Susumu K<\/a>itagawa<\/a> from Kyoto University, Japan, Richard Robson from the University of Melbourne, Australia, and Omar M. Yaghi from the University of California, Berkeley, for discovering a new form of molecular architecture: crystals that contain large cavities.<\/p>\n

Read the full story here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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There Are 5 Profiles of Sleep \u2013 Here’s What Yours Says About Your Health\"Risk(urbazon\/Getty Images)Scientists have identified five sleep profiles that link the quality of a person’s shut-eye with their physical and mental health in various ways.<\/p>\n

“The different sleep profiles were also supported by unique patterns of brain function measured with MRI<\/a>, suggesting that sleep experiences are reflected not just in health and behavior, but also in the brain’s wiring and activity,” says Aurore Perrault, neuroscientist at Concordia University in Canada.<\/p>\n

Read the full story here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

‘Grue Jay’ Spotted in a Texas Backyard Is First-of-Its-Kind Hybrid\"'GrueGrue jay hybrid. (Brian Stokes\/University of Texas at Austin<\/a>)A strange bird found in a Texas backyard turned out to be a “grue jay”, the first documented wild hybrid of a blue jay and a green jay.<\/p>\n

“We think it’s the first observed vertebrate that’s hybridized as a result of two species both expanding their ranges due, at least in part, to climate change,” says ecologist Brian Stokes of the University of Texas at Austin.<\/p>\n

Read the full story here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Your Toenails Can Reveal if You’ve Been Exposed to an Invisible Lung Cancer Cause\"Your(nito100\/Getty Images)Your toenails store an ‘archive’ of your exposure to hazards like radon gas, which could help doctors identify patients at risk of lung cancer.<\/p>\n

“The data will form the evidence that could lead to the inclusion of more patients, whose lung cancer is not caused by tobacco smoke, in potentially life-saving early screening and diagnosis,” says biochemist Aaron Goodarzi at the University of Calgary in Canada.<\/p>\n

Read the full story here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Physicists Predict When The Universe Will End in a Reverse Big Bang\"Physicists(Daniel Rocal – PHOTOGRAPHY\/Moment\/Getty Images)A new model predicts that in about 11 billion years, the Universe will begin to contract, ending in a reverse Big Bang 20 billion years from now.<\/p>\n

“For any life, you want to know how life begins and how life ends \u2013 the end points,” says astrophysicist Henry Tye of Cornell University in the US.<\/p>\n

“For our Universe, it’s also interesting to know, does it have a beginning? In the 1960s, we learned that it has a beginning. Then the next question is, ‘Does it have an end?’ For many years, many people thought it would just go on forever. It’s good to know that, if the data holds up, the Universe will have an end.”<\/p>\n

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