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Mysterious 'nightmare' shark with unnerving human-like smile dragged up from the deep sea | China discovers rare lunar crystal and nuclear power source on near side of the moon | NASA will smash its DART spacecraft into an asteroid on Monday. Here's how to watch. Created for {EMAIL} | [Web Version]( September 23, 2022 CONNECT WITH LIVESCIENCE  [Facebook]( [Twitter](  [LIVESCIENCE]( Amazing science every day [SIGN UP]( ⋅ [WEBSITE](  [] Top Science News [] [Mysterious 'nightmare' shark with unnerving human-like smile dragged up from the deep sea]( [Mysterious 'nightmare' shark with unnerving human-like smile dragged up from the deep sea]( (Trapman Bermagui) A bizarre deep-sea shark with bulging eyes and an unnerving, human-like smile was recently dragged up from the depths off the coast of Australia. Shark experts are uncertain exactly which species the creepy-looking creature might belong to, adding to the mystery surrounding the unusual specimen. A deep-sea angler, who goes by the online name Trapman Bermagui, reeled in the mysterious shark from a depth of around 2,130 feet (650 meters) off the coast of New South Wales in Australia. The fisher later shared a snap of the deep-sea specimen on Sept. 12 on Facebook. The image shows off the dead shark's rough sandpaper-like skin, large pointed snout, large bulging eyes and exposed pearly whites. Full Story: [Live Science]( (9/23) [LinkedIn]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Email]( Just the Facts, Ma'am "I stopped watching TV news a year ago, so sick of the bias everywhere. But in doing so, I was out of the loop. I decided to give 1440 a try & I've not been disappointed. Finally, Walter Cronkite-style reporting! Just the facts. I also love that I can click a link to see more on many stories. Keep up the good work!" [Join for free now.]( ADVERTISEMENT: [] Astronomy & Astrophysics [] [China discovers rare lunar crystal and nuclear power source on near side of the moon]( [China discovers rare lunar crystal and nuclear power source on near side of the moon]( (NASA) Researchers in China have discovered a new type of crystal nestled among the volcanic debris of the near side of the moon, as well as a potential fuel source that could help revolutionize the production of clean and efficient energy on Earth. The small, transparent crystal — named Changesite-(Y), after the Chinese moon goddess Chang'e — is more than a billion years old and is as wide as a human hair, according to Global Times, a Chinese state-run news site. In early September, researchers with the International Mineralogical Association confirmed that the tiny moon crystal has a never-before-seen composition and is related to other minerals found only on the moon or in meteors. Full Story: [Live Science]( (9/23) [LinkedIn]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Email]( [] [NASA will smash its DART spacecraft into an asteroid on Monday. Here's how to watch.]( [NASA will smash its DART spacecraft into an asteroid on Monday. Here's how to watch.]( (NASA/Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab) NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft is set to slam into an asteroid on Monday (Sept. 26), in the first ever test of humanity's ability to deflect life-threatening space rocks before they collide with Earth. The 1,210-pound (550 kilograms) DART craft, a squat cube-shaped probe consisting of sensors, an antenna, an ion thruster and two 28-foot-long (8.5 meters) solar arrays, will smash into the asteroid Dimorphos while traveling at roughly 13,420 mph (21,160 km/h). Full Story: [Live Science]( (9/22) [LinkedIn]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Email]( [] Curious Creatures [] [Ancient 'alien goldfish' shot toothy 'tongue' out of its gut to catch prey]( [Ancient 'alien goldfish' shot toothy 'tongue' out of its gut to catch prey]( (Drawing by Joschua Knüppe © Royal Ontario Museum) Ancient creatures nicknamed "alien goldfish" had toothy, tongue-like structures in their guts that they fired out of their bodies to catch prey 330 million years ago, but they weren't so different from some modern-day mollusks in that regard, a new study finds. Toothed tongue-launcher Typhloesus wellsi was first described in 1973, and has been an evolutionary enigma in scientific circles for many decades. The freaky animal dates from the Carboniferous period (358.9 million to 298.9 million years ago). But fossils of the vaguely fish-like animals were so different from other Carboniferous animals that scientists joked they belonged to extraterrestrials. 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One of this year's Breakthrough Prizes in Life Sciences went to Demis Hassabis, the co-founder and CEO of DeepMind, which created the protein-predicting program known as AlphaFold, and John Jumper, a senior staff research scientist at DeepMind, the Breakthrough Prize Foundation announced Thursday (Sept. 22). Full Story: [Live Science]( (9/22) [LinkedIn]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Email](   [Sign Up]( | [Update Profile]( | [Unsubscribe]( [Privacy Policy]( | [Cookies Policy]( | [Terms and Conditions]( CONTACT US: [FEEDBACK](mailto:livescience@smartbrief.com) | [ADVERTISE]( Future US LLC © 1100 13th St. NW, Suite 1000, Washington, DC 20005