The sun may have stripped away meters of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS - Phys.org

Illustration made with the help of AI. Credit: ZME Science. Ten meters (32 ft.) beneath the South China Sea, sunlight has already lost much of what makes it useful on land. Red and infrared wavelengths fade rapidly in water. What remains is a dimmer, bluer world.

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The winner of one of the world’s most prestigious scientific photography awards has been stripped of the top prize after their entry was outed as using generative AI. Dr Ning Xu, from Tsinghua University in China, grabbed the top spot in Nikon’s 16th annual Small World in Motion contest, which looks to reward the best microscopic videography. Dr Xu had submitted a short video showing tiny, hair-like structures called cilia moving through the airway of a child suffering from primary ciliary dyskinesia, a rare respiratory condition that can lead to chronic lung, sinus, and ear infections.