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THE INTERCEPT
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In The Intercept’s new podcast, columnist Mehdi Hasan unpacks the most consequential news event of the week, while challenging the mainstream media’s tired takes. As a Brit, a Muslim, and an immigrant based in Donald Trump's Washington, D.C., Hasan gives a refreshingly provocative perspective on the ups and downs of American and global politics. New episodes every Thursday. New to podcasting? Click here.

4 things we’ll learn from the first closeup image of a black hole
Event Horizon Telescope data are giving scientists an image of the Milky Way’s behemoth
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/event-horizon-telescope-first-image-black-hole-questions

Merging Neutron Stars Provide Insight Into Fundamental Properties of Matter
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Astronomers Observe Doughnut-Shaped Torus Surrounding Black Hole
Astronomers used the National Science Foundation’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) to make the first direct image of a dusty, doughnut-shaped feature surrounding…
Artist’s conception of the dusty, doughnut-shaped object surrounding the supermassive black hole, disk of material orbiting the black hole, and jets of material ejected by the disk, at the center of a galaxy. Credit: Bill Saxton, NRAO/AUI/NSF

Astronomers used the National Science Foundation’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) to make the first direct image of a dusty, doughnut-shaped feature surrounding the supermassive black hole at the core of one of the most powerful radio galaxies in the Universe — a feature first postulated by theorists nearly four decades ago as an essential part of such objects.

The scientists studied Cygnus A, a galaxy some 760 million light-years from Earth. The galaxy harbors a black hole at its core that is 2.5 billion times more massive than the Sun. As the black hole’s powerful gravitational pull draws in surrounding material, it also propels superfast jets of material traveling outward at nearly the speed of light, producing spectacular “lobes” of bright radio emission.

Black hole-powered “central engines” producing bright emission at various wavelengths, and jets extending far beyond the galaxy are common to many galaxies, but show different properties when observed. Those differences led to a variety of names, such as quasars, blazars, or Seyfert galaxies. To explain the differences, theorists constructed a “unified model” with a common set of features that would show different properties depending on the angle from which they are viewed. READ MORE >>>>>>> https://scitechdaily.com/astronomers-observe-doughnut-shaped-torus-surrounding-black-hole/ READ MORE https://scitechdaily.com/astronomers-observe-doughnut-shaped-torus-surrounding-black-hole/

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Aboriginals in Australia have won a ground-breaking case that paves the way for billions of dollars in compensation claims for colonial land loss, as well as loss of spiritual connection.
The High Court of Australia ruled in favor of the Ngaliwurru and Nungali groups from the Northern Territory in the biggest ‘native title’ ruling on indigenous rights to traditional land and water in decades on Wednesday.
It said the Northern Territory government was to pay $2.53mn in damages to the Ngaliwurru and Nungali groups for an earlier federal court ruling which found the NT government “extinguished” their native title rights when they built infrastructure on their land in the 80s and 90s. https://www.rt.com/news/453929-aboriginal-high-court-ruling-compensation-win/?fbclid=IwAR2OxHLitTYuSymLAr7Hg2tXbZn47RzKQjNN1i8SrJ-L_szXhEwYpjZc4kE

Geneticists close in on how mosquitoes sniff out human sweat
A protein in the antennae of Aedes aegypti detects lactic acid wafting off skin
Geneticists have found a scent-sniffer protein molecule in mosquito antennae that — if somehow jammed — might leave a bloodsucker confused about whether we’re human enough to bite.

Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, which can spread Zika and dengue, prefer human blood to the blood of other animals. A string of experiments now shows that a protein called IR8a, found in the insects’ antennae, is one of the molecules necessary for detecting lactic acid, a component of human sweat, wafting by.

Human skin and its microbiome give off a lot of lactic acid compared with other vertebrates’, says geneticist Matthew DeGennaro of Florida International University in Miami. Researchers since the 1960s have mused that lactic acid might be one of the big clues Ae. aegypti mosquitoes use to pick out humans.

IR8a’s role in detecting traces of acids in the air was revealed in part by evidence from how mutant mosquitoes behave. Mutants with nonworking IR8a, but with their other abilities intact, were only about half as likely to settle on a human arm or sweat-stained sock as normal mosquitoes, DeGennaro and colleagues report March 28 in Current Biology.

Insects evolved odor detection separately from vertebrates, and the six-legged version is “very complex,” DeGennaro says. Mosquitoes rely on three families of odor-sniffing proteins that have overlapping abilities to identify groups of airborne chemical compounds. Proteins called ionotropic receptors, which include IR8a, target acids among other compounds. As a mosquito hunts, the floating chemical cues get combined with other information such as atmospheric heat, moisture and the sight of something biteable. DeGennaro calls carbon dioxide “mosquito coffee,” revving the insects up to get to work seeking a meal. READ MORE >>>>>>> https://www.sciencenews.org/article/genetics-how-mosquitoes-sniff-out-human-sweat

Saturn’s rings paint some of its moons shades of blue and red
Five ring-dwelling objects are different colors, depending on their distance from the planet
Saturn’s rings are painting its innermost moons.

Data from NASA’s now-defunct Cassini spacecraft show that five odd-shaped moons embedded in Saturn’s rings are different colors, and that the hues come from the rings themselves, researchers report. That observation could help scientists figure out how the moons were born.

“The ring moons and the rings themselves are kind of one and the same,” says planetary scientist Bonnie Buratti of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. “For as long as the moons have existed, they’ve been accreting particles from the rings.”

Saturn has more than 60 moons, but those nearest to the planet interact closely with its main band of rings. Between December 2016 and April 2017, Cassini passed close to five of these ring-dwelling moons: ravioli-shaped Pan and Atlas (SN Online: 3/10/17), ring-sculpting Daphnis and Pandora (SN: 9/2/17, p. 16) and potato-shaped Epimetheus. The flybys brought Cassini between two and 10 times closer to the moons than it had ever been, before the spacecraft deliberately crashed into Saturn in September 2017 (SN Online: 9/15/17).

Examining those close-ups, Buratti and her colleagues noticed that the moons’ colors vary depending on the objects’ distances from Saturn. And the moon hues are similar to the colors of the rings that the objects are closest to, the team reports online March 28 in Science. READ MORE >>>>>>https://www.sciencenews.org/article/cassini-saturn-rings-moons

New Findings Emerge About Tiny Moons Nestled In Saturn’s Rings

New findings have emerged about five tiny moons nestled in and near Saturn’s rings. The closest-ever flybys by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft reveal that the surfaces of these unusual moons are covered with material from the planet’s rings — and from icy particles blasting out of Saturn’s larger moon Enceladus. The work paints a picture of the competing processes shaping these mini-moons.

“The daring, close flybys of these odd little moons let us peer into how they interact with Saturn’s rings,” said Bonnie Buratti of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. Buratti led a team of 35 co-authors that published their work in the journal Science on March 28. “We’re seeing more evidence of how extremely active and dynamic the Saturn ring and moon system is.”

The new research, from data gathered by six of Cassini’s instruments before its mission ended in 2017, is a clear confirmation that dust and ice from the rings accretes onto the moons embedded within and near the rings.

Scientists also found the moon surfaces to be highly porous, further confirming that they were formed in multiple stages as ring material settled onto denser cores that might be remnants of a larger object that broke apart. The porosity also helps explain their shape: Rather than being spherical, they are blobby and ravioli-like, with material stuck around their equators. READ MORE https://scitechdaily.com/new-findings-emerge-about-tiny-moons-nestled-in-saturns-rings/

New Findings Provide Incentive For Cracking Dark Matter Mystery
Researchers from Russia, Finland, and the U.S. have put a constraint on the theoretical model of dark matter particles by analyzing data from astronomical observations of active galactic nuclei. The new findings provide an added incentive for research groups around the world trying to crack the mystery of dark matter: No one is quite sure what it is made of. The paper was published in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics.

The question of what particles make up dark matter is a crucial one for modern particle physics. Despite the expectations that dark matter particles would be discovered at the Large Hadron Collider, this did not happen. A number of then-mainstream hypotheses about the nature of dark matter had to be rejected. Diverse observations indicate that dark matter exists, but apparently something other than the particles in the Standard Model constitutes it. Physicists thus have to consider further options that are more complex. The Standard Model needs to be extended. Among the candidates for inclusion are hypothetical particles that may have masses in the range from 10⁻²⁶ to 10⁺¹⁴ times the mass of the electron. That is, the heaviest speculated particle has a mass 40 orders of magnitude greater than that of the lightest. READ MORE https://scitechdaily.com/new-findings-provide-incentive-for-cracking-dark-matter-mystery/

New Findings Emerge About Tiny Moons Nestled In Saturn’s Rings
TOPICS:AstronomyCassini-Huygens MissionPlanetary ScienceSaturn
By GRETCHEN MCCARTNEY, JET PROPULSION LABORATORY MARCH 29, 2019

Cassini Reveals Saturn's Rings Coat Tiny Moons

This graphic shows the ring moons inspected by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft in super-close flybys. The rings and moons depicted are not to scale. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech

New findings have emerged about five tiny moons nestled in and near Saturn’s rings. The closest-ever flybys by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft reveal that the surfaces of these unusual moons are covered with material from the planet’s rings — and from icy particles blasting out of Saturn’s larger moon Enceladus. The work paints a picture of the competing processes shaping these mini-moons.

“The daring, close flybys of these odd little moons let us peer into how they interact with Saturn’s rings,” said Bonnie Buratti of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. Buratti led a team of 35 co-authors that published their work in the journal Science on March 28. “We’re seeing more evidence of how extremely active and dynamic the Saturn ring and moon system is.”

The new research, from data gathered by six of Cassini’s instruments before its mission ended in 2017, is a clear confirmation that dust and ice from the rings accretes onto the moons embedded within and near the rings.

Scientists also found the moon surfaces to be highly porous, further confirming that they were formed in multiple stages as ring material settled onto denser cores that might be remnants of a larger object that broke apart. The porosity also helps explain their shape: Rather than being spherical, they are blobby and ravioli-like, with material stuck around their equators.

Saturn's Rings Coat Tiny Moons
This montage of views from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft shows three of the small, ring moons inspected during close flybys: Atlas, Daphnis and Pan. They’re shown here at the same scale. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

“We found these moons are scooping up particles of ice and dust from the rings to form the little skirts around their equators,” Buratti said. “A denser body would be more ball-shaped because gravity would pull the material in.”

“Perhaps this process is going on throughout the rings, and the largest ring particles are also accreting ring material around them. Detailed views of these tiny ring moons may tell us more about the behavior of the ring particles themselves,” said Cassini Project Scientist Linda Spilker, also at JPL.

Of the satellites studied, the surfaces of those closest to Saturn — Daphnis and Pan — are the most altered by ring materials. The surfaces of the moons Atlas, Prometheus and Pandora, farther out from Saturn, have ring material as well — but they’re also coated with the bright icy particles and water vapor from the plume spraying out of Enceladus. (A broad outer ring of Saturn, known as the E ring, is formed by the icy material that fans out from Enceladus’ plume.)

The key puzzle piece was a data set from Cassini’s Visible and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (VIMS), which collected light visible to the human eye and also infrared light of longer wavelengths. It was the first time Cassini was close enough to create a spectral map of the surface of the innermost moon Pan. By analyzing the spectra, VIMS was able to learn about the composition of materials on all five moons.

VIMS saw that the ring moons closest to Saturn appear the reddest, similar to the color of the main rings. Scientists don’t yet know the exact composition of the material that appears red, but they believe it’s likely a mix of organics and iron.

The moons just outside the main rings, on the other hand, appear more blue, similar to the light from Enceladus’ icy plumes.

The six uber-close flybys of the ring moons, performed between December 2016 and April 2017, engaged all of Cassini’s optical remote sensing instruments that study the electromagnetic spectrum. They worked alongside the instruments that examined the dust, plasma and magnetic fields and how those elements interact with the moons.

Questions remain, including what triggered the moons to form. Scientists will use the new data to model scenarios and could apply the insights to small moons around other planets and possibly even to asteroids. READ >>>>>> https://scitechdaily.com/new-findings-emerge-about-tiny-moons-nestled-in-saturns-rings/

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HAARETZ.COM
Network of Fake Social Media Accounts Boosting Netanyahu Ahead of Election, Report Says
Over 500 fake accounts behind posts echoing Likud messages, receiving 2.5 million hits, watchdog says ■ Netanyahu denies using fake accounts: 'They're all real people'
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/israeli-palestinian-conflict-solutions/report-network-of-fake-social-media-accounts-boosting-netanyahu-ahead-of-election-1.7069298?fbclid=IwAR2n7Zub1glpbmDgne_YJjWb2PncgtkPQoxyYDx-EzVt_kdWVBGwg8bWmXU

Got to be kidding: And YOU want to fight Russia
Faulty nuclear propulsion and elevators further delay USS Ford’s delivery
https://www.stripes.com/news/faulty-nuclear-propulsion-and-elevators-further-delay-uss-ford-s-delivery-1.574497?fbclid=IwAR2hhrmU0O9NvXxm1c2LqqP3a7YwXbsEn9D3T4Lox2bLu-OskmSzOhu4CVs

Guns, sex, inappropriate behavior,............. and arrogance: I hated everything about America
Second woman accuses Joe Biden of inappropriate behavior: 'I thought he was going to kiss me'
Ledyard King USA TODAY
Published 8:36 PM EDT Apr 1, 2019
WASHINGTON – A second woman is accusing former Vice President Joe Biden of unwanted, inappropriate behavior, the Hartford Courant reported Monday.
Amy Lappos of Connecticut said Biden, a potential 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, touched her and rubbed his nose on hers during a 2009 political fundraiser in Greenwich, the Courant reported.
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/04/01/joe-biden-second-woman-makes-accusations-inappropriate-behavior/3337400002/

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A black man is grabbed and manhandled by a white man, who takes a selfie of them both, grinning, while the black man cringes. The photos that caught this moment shocked social media when they were posted online on April 26. We spoke with the photographer, who said it was an instance of deliberate humiliation and psychological violence, and regrets the way that his photos have been discussed and taken out of context online.

The scene took place in Tel Aviv, Israel, on April 24, and began to circulate online two days later, causing outrage. In the photos, a bare-chested black man has his hair grabbed and pulled by a white man who takes a photo of them both.

“It was like he was saying to this person, ‘You are inferior to me, entertain me’”
https://observers.france24.com/en/20180501-shocking-photos-migrants-humiliated-tel-aviv?fbclid=IwAR2030zSD3S0lhJyjbcNtrB4SIzeWuOgcls3D41HLCQTZdwGNZtRr0j2CS0

THE MIND UNLEASHED
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Grammy-Nominee, Making Documentary on ‘Cure for Cancer and AIDS’, Murdered in Broad Daylight
Opinion: The shooting being related to the making of his cancer documentary could be entirely coincidental.
(TFTP) Los Angeles, CA — Nipsey Hussle was a Grammy-nominated rapper who served as an inspiration to other great musicians and athletes. At the time of his death he was working on a documentary following the life of Dr. Sebi—real name—Alfredo Darrington Bowman, and his alleged cures for cancer and AIDS. That documentary may never come to light now, because on March 31, 2019, Hussle was murdered in broad daylight outside of his clothing shop in Los Angeles.
Now, many people are coming forward to allege that this documentary was a factor in Hussle’s murder. According to Heavy, the doc, which followed the 1985 court trial in which Dr. Sebi proved he had a cure for AIDS, allegedly contained evidence that the government assisted in Dr. Sebi’s death. https://themindunleashed.com/2019/04/grammy-nominee-making-documentary-on-cure-for-cancer-and-aids-murdered-in-broad-daylight.html?fbclid=IwAR08V_EjXKs0mxWLlmDClZp4x6Bv3biNTR-jouuS36LK3EEqTonkXNSq_Ds

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Christian Dominionists Meet at Trump’s Washington Hotel to Answer the “Divine Call to War”

Last month, while NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre was regaling culture warriors at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference with tales of socialists trying to take away their guns, Christian Dominionists were holding an event called “The Turnaround: An Appeal to Heaven National Gathering,” at Washington’s Trump International Hotel. It featured some of the most prominent Christian Dominionists in the country.
https://truthout.org/articles/christian-dominionists-meet-at-trump-s-washington-hotel-to-answer-the-divine-call-to-war/?utm_source=sharebuttons&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=mashshare&fbclid=IwAR3PPZjWps_eQakeeu4dJVIGPC6nstzt-nqufH1o4dX5q-e2EovcSN7BN58