1.5.2 🌞 Sunday Links ...Animal Friends, Solar Storms 1859, Detergent Pods, Free Artworks

This Sunday our links explore how friendships between animals has evolved, detergent pods and microplastic pollution, speeding up computers, stargazing at night on Mars, 88,000 free to use artwork images, and more. Also an interesting article about the Carrington Event in 1859, a solar storm that lit up night skies for a week as solar flares hit the Earth's magnetic field.

1859’s “Great Auroral Storm”—the week the Sun touched the earth
https://arstechnica.com/science/2012/05/1859s-great-auroral-stormthe-week-the-sun-touched-the-earth/

How microbes influence our brain health
https://www.chemistryworld.com/features/how-microbes-influence-our-brain-health/4019122.article

Detergent pods are only the start of clothing's microplastic pollution problem
https://grist.org/regulation/detergent-pods-are-only-the-start-of-clothings-microplastic-pollution-problem/

Radical New Discovery Could Double The Speed of Existing Computers

https://www.sciencealert.com/radical-new-discovery-could-double-the-speed-of-existing-computers

The Getty Makes Nearly 88,000 Art Images Free to Use However You Like
https://www.openculture.com/2024/03/the-getty-makes-nearly-88000-art-images-free-to-use-however-you-like.html

New study reveals the evolutionary nature of animal friendships
https://phys.org/news/2024-03-reveals-evolutionary-nature-animal-friendships.html

Love to see the night sky on Mars? This is what it would be like to stargaze on the Red Planet
https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/apple-news-ingest/what-does-night-sky-look-like-mars