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what's up sunshine it's Monday March
17th happy St Patrick's Day hope you get
a little St Patty's Day luck sprinkled
on to your Monday St Patrick celebrated
on this day each year because he has
thought to have passed away around this
time in the mid fifth century did you
know that this primary patron saint of
Ireland was not Irish he was born in
Roman Britain not Ireland and was
kidnapped and taken to Ireland as a
slave at the age of 16 he HT his sheep
for many years before fleeing to a
monastery in England and that's where he
became a devout follower of Christianity
and was ordained a bishop he then
returned to Ireland as a missionary
where he is said to have used the
threeleaves shamrock plant to explain
the three parts of the Holy Trinity
while preaching all right now let's get
to our lead story of the day powerful
storms have swept across the Midwest and
Southern parts of the United States we
hope you all are safe thousands of
people are facing vast destruction from
damaging winds pounding rain and tornado
outbreaks across several States dozens
of people have lost their lives it began
on Friday in the midwest with a line of
severe storms moving East affecting more
than 900 miles of the region Kansas and
Texas saw dust storms from the damaging
winds Oklahoma's Governor declared a
state of emergency because of wind fed
wildfires
then Saturday we saw the most tornado
warnings issued Nationwide since April
of last year with at least 163 warnings
issued more than 40 reported tornadoes
swept across eight states in the Midwest
and South the severe weather continued
through Sunday with tornado warnings
issued up the East Coast hundreds of
thousands of people were left without
power in the wake of the storms Alabama
Mississippi and Missouri were hit hard
by tornadoes in some areas power lines
are down trees are toppled while debris
from destroyed buildings and homes is
blocking roads right the ancient past
and the futuristic now are colliding
people used a light beam 10 billion
times brighter than the Sun and
artificial intelligence to unravel
hundreds of ancient Scrolls that were
charred during the eruption of Mount
Vesuvius in 79 ad in 2023 the Vesuvius
challenge began as a competition to
decipher the 2,000-year-old herculanum
Scrolls using Ai and other computer
technology researchers and computer
scientists from around the world have
enhanced the ancient ink on the Scrolls
they've now virtually unrolled the fifth
scroll and this could transform our
understanding of ancient Greece and Rome
our Nick Valencia has
more this CH scroll could contain
valuable insights into ancient Greek and
Roman philosophy but the contents are
challenging to get charred from the
eruption of Mount vvus in 79 ad the few
hundred Scrolls left unopened are in
fragile condition they're known as the
herculanum Scrolls named for the town
that was buried in the eruption opening
one could destroy its contents so
researchers have now turned to
artificial intelligence to help discover
what's inside using AI scientists have
performed the first virtual unrolling of
one of the Scrolls the process uses a
particle accelerator that speeds up
electrons to emit light 10 billion times
brighter than the sun
the light is then directed into
Laboratories as x-ray beams to scan
inside the Scrolls without damaging them
AI was trained to Spot ink and put
together images from the scan to make
the text clearer for researchers to
decipher so we've zoomed in essentially
with an x-ray microscope is how you can
think of this and we're just looking at
very very detailed structures on the
surface and identifying where there is
ink and anywhere we find ink we sort of
paint it on the virtually unwrapped
surface and at that Point text emerges
on that image and once there's something
that resembles text we partner with the
scholars here in Naples and around the
world who specialize in these texts and
they're able to read it the virtual
unrolling of this scroll revealed
substantial parts of the Papyrus
including several Columns of
text it is the newest breakthrough in
the vvus challenge a competition which
encourages people to decipher text from
these Scrolls using computer vision and
machine learning the virtual unwrapping
methods that the research team and the
community have developed are really
converging to the point where we think
this year we're going to substantially
read an entire scroll for the first time
so that would be historic for a single
scroll this scroll is expected to
contain ancient philosophical writings
that have not been seen for nearly 2,000
years researcher Michael mcoser thinks
the text will be from the philosopher
philodemus inspired by epicurus getting
new texts is is great getting new texts
from an author that I've worked on for a
decade and a half now is even better
news uh but I'll be happy whatever it
is 10-second trivia the main asteroid
belt where most asteroids orbiting the
Sun can be found lies between which
planets Mercury and Venus Earth and Mars
Mars and Jupiter or Jupiter and
Saturn if you said Mars and Jupiter
you're so money according to NASA the
belt is estimated to contain between 1.1
and 1.9 million asteroids all larger
than 1 kilm or6 mil in diameter
furthermore estimates show there are
millions of smaller ones to outer space
now where the European space agency's
heram mission has sent stunning new
images of Mars back to Earth the
spacecraft about the size of a small car
is swinging by Mars to use the planet's
gravity for some extra momentum on its
2year long journey to reach a double
asteroid system by October of 202 6
that's when it'll get an up close look
at the aftermath from the NASA dark
Mission which intentionally crashed a
spacecraft into an asteroid altering its
orbit two years ago our McKenna Yuan
shows us how scientists plan to use
Hera's data to possibly defend the
planet from potential Galactic shrapnel
in the
future European space agency's probe
Hera just captured unique views of a
rarely seen side of a Martian Moon the
probe swung past Mars to gain extra
momentum needed to reach its intended
Mission Target asteroid didos and its
small moonlet dimorphus her launched in
October 2024 to study the results from a
NASA Mission that's when the agency
intentionally slammed its Dart
spacecraft into a smaller moonlet to
alter its orbit the hope with both the
dart and hero missions is to test
asteroid deflection technology on behalf
of planetary defense and this is what
we're doing with a to go into deep space
and test an aster deflection technique
to be able to model
the the defense system so that we can
use it to any other object in the future
so we're going to gather scientific data
very close by and improve our
understanding of asteroids so that if
needed we can deflect them hero is
expected to reach the didimo system to
begin investigating in October of
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2026 today's story getting a 10 out of
10 866 brand new species discovered
Under the Sea including strum
particularly cool scientists were amped
up when they discovered a guitar shark
along with the other new species
uncovered by the ocean census a project
launched in 2023 aiming to expand our
knowledge of the ocean's
depths an ambitious Global effort to
discover new marine life is paying off
Big Time shedding light on more than 800
newly documented species including one
guitar-shaped shark headlining the bill
a 10-year mission called the ocean
census has been underway since 2023 and
its first major update on 10 Expeditions
spanning the globe with divers piloted
submersibles and remote Vehicles
announced
866 discovered species deemed brand new
to science including a deep sea Limpet a
venomous gastropod and a teeny tiny pipe
horse but it's this newly found species
of guitar shark that stole the show so
named for its well shape of a guitar
found off mosambique and Tanzania the
discovery of this threatened species was
music to explorers ears rock on and
thanks for tuning in it's shout out time
now and this one goes to the bombers at
Kenston High School in Chagrin Falls
Ohio the bombers are a little bit of
history in action the school's location
near a major US Army ammunition plant
during World War II LED them to choose
the B-52 bombers that flew overhead
during war time to be their mascot rise
up that's all we have time for for today
shine bright everyone and I will see you
right back here tomorrow I'm Coy wire
and we are CNN 10
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