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Yahoo
16-05-2025
- Sport
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How Long Island HS tennis player overcame tough times to become team's star
Manhasset tennis player Max Golubenko was down on the sport the summer after his sophomore year. 'I played six or seven tournaments, and in all of them I won only like one or two rounds against, like, lower-rated opponents,' he told The Post. 'I was playing almost every day of the week, and I was just not getting far.' Advertisement Rather than giving up, however, Golubenko, originally of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, doubled down to sharpen his game. Manhasset tennis player Max Golubenko has a 13-0 record heading into the Nassau County tournament this weekend at Eisenhower Park. Manhasset Athletics 'I really started adding in the fitness element and my game changed,' said Golubenko, who loves tennis so much he wrote about it on a supplemental college essay. Now, as a senior, he's at the top of the Long Island leaderboards, boasting a 13-0 record heading into the Nassau County tournament this weekend at Eisenhower Park. 'I knew that the hard work would pay off,' he said. 'Through those dry streaks and those hard times, they built me to the level that I'm at today. I'm happy and proud of myself … my family is convinced I'm going pro one day.' Advertisement Golubenko, who overcame a back injury heading into 12th grade, took third in last year's tournament, which qualified him for states. Max Golubenko Manhasset Athletics Nevertheless, this year, the Trinity College-bound athlete says it's win or bust at Eisenhower. 'Last time I was up against opponents physically stronger than me who were playing much longer than me,' said Golubenko, who got serious about tennis at age 13 after moving to the suburbs. 'It was just a starting point … and this is my senior year, so I'm all in.' The rematch of Long Island's holy war did not disappoint. The Friars of Saint Anthony's High School defeated the Chaminade Flyers 16-12 to capture the boys lacrosse team's sixth consecutive Catholic League championship, all of which were played against their arch rival since 2019. Chaminade, which beat St. Anthony's 11-10 in the regular season, took a 10-6 lead into the half, but a 7-1 third-quarter run by the Friars put it out of reach.
Newsweek
16-05-2025
- Science
- Newsweek
Strongest Solar Storm Ever 'Establishes a New Worst-Case Scenario'
Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Newsweek AI is in beta. Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content. New research has pinpointed the exact date when the strongest ever solar particle storm hit the Earth. This identification of the event, which occurred in 12,350 B.C., rewrites what scientists considered possible when it comes to extreme space weather. "Compared to the largest event of the modern satellite era—the 2005 particle storm—the ancient 12350 BC event was over 500 times more intense, according to our estimates," said paper author and physicist Kseniia Golubenko of Finland's University of Oulu in a statement. At the core of this discovery is SOCOL:14C-Ex, a novel chemistry–climate model developed by Golubenko and fellow Oulu astrophysicist professor Ilya Usoskin. Designed to reconstruct solar particle events under ancient glacial climate conditions, the model allowed the international team to pinpoint and assess an extreme radiocarbon spike during the waning stages of the last Ice Age. "This event establishes a new worst-case scenario," Golubenko said in a statement. "Understanding its scale is critical for evaluating the risks posed by future solar storms to modern infrastructure like satellites, power grids, and communication systems." A 3D rendered image of a solar storm. A 3D rendered image of a solar storm. Getty Images Their analysis confirmed that the event was about 18 percent stronger than previous record-holder, a storm in AD 775 recorded in tree-ring records . Other notable solar particle storms have occurred in 7,176 B.C., 5,259 B.C., 663 B.C. and 994 A.D.—but none came close to the ferocity of the newly-identified ancient event. The discovery was made possible through radiocarbon measurements of wood samples recently unearthed in the French Alps dating back some 14,300 years. While earlier observations had noted a significant increase in radiocarbon from that era, scientists lacked a reliable model to interpret the magnitude of the event—until now. The SOCOL:14C-Ex model was validated using known data from the AD 775 storm and successfully extended to simulate late Ice Age conditions. This validation across both Holocene and glacial periods marks a critical step forward in analyzing radiocarbon anomalies from different climatic and geomagnetic time periods. What Are Solar Storms? Solar particle storms, while rare, pose a significant risk to modern technology. When they occur, these sudden explosions of energy, magnetic fields and material blast Earth with high-energy particles that can disrupt satellites, navigation systems, aviation, and power grids. The infamous Carrington Event of 1859, often cited as the worst-case scenario for solar storms, was not a particle storm. This distinction matters because particle storms can have even more widespread atmospheric effects, and the new findings revise our understanding of solar physics and such space weather extremes. Do you have a tip on a science story that Newsweek should be covering? Do you have a question about solar storms? Let us know via science@ Reference Golubenko, K., Usoskin, I., Rozanov, E., & Bard, E. (2025). New SOCOL:14C-Ex model reveals that the Late-Glacial radiocarbon spike in 12350 BC was caused by the record-strong extreme solar storm. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 661, 119383.
Yahoo
16-05-2025
- Science
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The Most Violent Solar Storm Ever Detected Hit Earth in 12350 BCE
A huge cosmic event some 14,300 years ago was so powerful, it left a discernible mark on our planet. In the partially fossilized trunks of ancient trees, and excavated cores of millennia-old ice, scientists have found evidence that suggests some sort of massive space event took place in around 12350 BCE. New work using a specially developed climate-chemistry model called SOCOL:14C-Ex clinches it. The culprit behind the huge particle influx during that time was a giant event from the Sun, pelting Earth with particles in the biggest geomagnetic storm we have on record. "Compared to the largest event of the modern satellite era – the 2005 particle storm – the ancient 12350 BCE event was over 500 times more intense, according to our estimates," says space physicist Kseniia Golubenko of the University of Oulu in Finland. A geomagnetic storm is an event usually associated with a coronal mass ejection, a huge expulsion of billions of tons of plasma, enmeshed with a magnetic field, from the Sun. When this particle influx slams into Earth, all sorts of wacky shenanigans can ensue. The aurora australis and borealis are the most well-known manifestations of a geomagnetic storm, but such disturbances can get dangerous when mixed with our technology. The most famous example is the Carrington Event of September 1859, in which currents in the atmosphere then ran along Earth's surface, wiping out telegraph systems around the world, triggering fires and mayhem. Another big geomagnetic storm in 1989 saw multiple power grid failures and disruptions. We know that the Sun is capable of much bigger outbursts, though. But because human records of solar storms are patchy at best, it's difficult to gauge just how strong a geomagnetic storm can get. However, one quirk of geomagnetic storms is that they temporarily increase the amount of the radioactive carbon-14 that's constantly raining down on Earth. This radiocarbon is produced in the upper atmosphere when cosmic particles, like the particles belched out by the Sun, interact with atmospheric particles. Carbon-14 is incorporated into organisms, such as trees and animals, and because it decays at a known rate, scientists can use it to determine when these organisms lived. Here's where it gets interesting: a huge spike in carbon-14 in a tree ring can be used not just to detect, but narrow down the date of a geomagnetic storm. This is what researchers did to identify a potential giant geomagnetic storm 14,000 years ago, as explained in a 2023 paper. Other such events have been traced to around 994 CE, 660 BCE, 5259 BCE, and 7176 BCE, with the most recent (and previously largest known) being 774 CE. The 12350 BCE event, however, is different from the others, which is why the team needed to design a model to understand it better. "The ancient event in 12350 BCE is the only known extreme solar particle event outside of the Holocene epoch, the past ~12,000 years of stable warm climate," Golubenko says. "Our new model lifts the existing limitation to the Holocene and extends our ability to analyze radiocarbon data even for glacial climate conditions." The researchers tested their model on the 774 CE event, and then, once it returned accurate results, used it to analyze the data from 12,350 BCE. This allowed them to probe the strength, timing, and terrestrial impact of the storm, confirming that it was the biggest solar particle storm that we know about. "This event establishes a new worst-case scenario," Golubenko says. "Understanding its scale is critical for evaluating the risks posed by future solar storms to modern infrastructure like satellites, power grids, and communication systems." The research has been published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters. Dark Matter Could Be Evolving, And The Implications Are Profound Kosmos 482's Final Descent Captured in One Haunting Image Sun Unleashes Most Powerful Flare We've Seen in 2025
