World’s oldest RNA extracted from Ice Age woolly mammoth
Avoid to content Sequencing an ancient animal’s RNA opens a brand-new window into extinct life. The Yuka massive on screen in a frozen collection Credit: Valeri Plotnikov A young woolly…
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World’s biggest spiderweb discovered inside ‘Sulfur Cave’ with 111,000 arachnids living in pitch black
Scientists have actually found more than 111,000 spiders growing in what seems the world’s greatest spiderweb, deep inside a pitch-black cavern on the Albanian-Greek border. This is the very first…
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Science news this week: The world’s oldest mummy, and an ant that mates with clones of a distant species
In this week’s science news, we reported on the world’s earliest mummy, the unusual cloning habits of the Iberian harvester ant, the sun’s activity increase, and researchers utilizing mystical quick…
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World’s Oldest Host-Associated Microbial DNA Obtained from Ancient Mammoth Remains
In a brand-new research study, researchers evaluated ancient microbial DNA from 483 massive remains covering over 1 million years, consisting of 440 newly-sequenced and unpublished samples from a 1.1-million-year-old steppe…
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The world’s first view of Earth from the moon, taken 59 years ago — Space photo of the week
“true” fetchpriority=”high”> The world’s very first view of Earth, taken by a spacecraft from the area of the moon, was caught Aug. 23, 1966. ( Image credit: NASA ) FAST…
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World’s Oldest Ankylosaur Had Uniquely Elaborate Dermal Armor
The armored ankylosaurian dinosaurs are best understood from Late Cretaceous northern hemisphere communities, however their early development in the Early-Middle Jurassic is shrouded in secret due to a bad fossil…
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Pallas’s cat: One of the world’s oldest felines that stands on its bushy tail to keep its paws warm
Pallas’s felines are really grumpy-looking wild felines. (Image credit: xtrekx/Getty Images) FAST FACTS Call: Pallas’s feline(Otocolobus manul Where it lives: Steppes and high-elevation meadows in Central Asia, especially Mongolia and…
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World’s first artificial tongue ‘tastes and learns’ like a real human organ
(Image credit: Evgeniya Arsentyeva by means of Getty Images) Researchers have actually produced the very first synthetic tongue that can notice and recognize tastes totally in liquid environments– imitating how…
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AI outsmarted 30 of the world’s top mathematicians at secret meeting in California
(Image credit: Yuichiro Chino through Getty Images) On a weekend in mid-May, a private mathematical conclave assembled. Thirty of the world’s most popular mathematicians took a trip to Berkeley, Calif.,…
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Gold coins from ‘world’s richest shipwreck’ reveal 300-year-old depictions of castles, lions and Jerusalem crosses
Information of gold “cobs” observed in ROV images from the wreck website show they originated from the 1708 wreck of the San José treasure galleon. (Image credit: ARC-DIMAR 2022/Vargas Ariza…
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