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@lemmy.worldhttps://apnews.com/article/thailand-snake-python-kitchen-0e2ad8b8fcdeeb9d8d17ffeb137fa85f
A 64-year-old woman was preparing to do her evening dishes at her home outside Bangkok when she felt a sharp pain in her thigh and looked down to see a huge python taking hold of her.
https://newspaceeconomy.ca/2024/09/19/nasa-just-shut-down-a-planetary-defence-mission-that-tracks-asteroids-now-what/?amp=1
Launched in 2011, NASA’s NEOWISE mission operated in Earth’s orbit until late last week. It detected more than 3,000 near-Earth objects or NEOs – asteroids or comets whose orbits can bring them clo…
https://theconversation.com/astronomers-cant-agree-on-how-fast-the-universe-is-expanding-new-approaches-are-aiming-to-break-the-impasse-236985?
The Hubble tension has been described as a “crisis” for cosmology. Can it be resolved?
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/09/robot-placed-under-the-control-of-a-fungal-overlord/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned
A mushroom's response to environmental changes can be used to control a robot.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-strange-story-of-the-algorithm-meant-to-solve-life-the-universe-and/
Some researchers dream of solving all mysteries with a common method—but a mathematical paradox may keep such solutions out of reach
https://phys.org/news/2024-09-mars-atmospheric-formaldehyde.html
Although Mars is currently a cold, dry planet, geological evidence suggests that liquid water existed there around 3 to 4 billion years ago. Where there is water, there is usually life. In their quest to answer the burning question about life on Mars, researchers at Tohoku University created a detailed model of organic matter production in the ancient Martian atmosphere.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-024-02532-3#Sec6
Southern Africa has one of the longest records of fossil hominins and harbours the largest human genetic diversity in the world. Yet, despite its relevance for human origins and spread around the globe, the formation and processes of its gene pool in the past are still largely unknown. Here, we present a time transect of genome-wide sequences from nine individuals recovered from a single site in South Africa, Oakhurst Rockshelter. Spanning the whole Holocene, the ancient DNA of these individuals allows us to reconstruct the demographic trajectories of the indigenous San population and their ancestors during the last 10,000 years. We show that, in contrast to most regions around the world, the population history of southernmost Africa was not characterized by several waves of migration, replacement and admixture but by long-lasting genetic continuity from the early Holocene to the end of the Later Stone Age. Although the advent of pastoralism and farming substantially transformed the gene pool in most parts of southern Africa after 1,300 bp, we demonstrate using allele-frequency and identity-by-descent segment-based methods that the ‡Khomani San and Karretjiemense from South Africa still show direct signs of relatedness to the Oakhurst hunter-gatherers, a pattern obscured by recent, extensive non-Southern African admixture. Yet, some southern San in South Africa still preserve this ancient, Pleistocene-derived genetic signature, extending the period of genetic continuity until today. Oakhurst rockshelter in South Africa documents marked cultural change during the Holocene, but genome-wide data from ancient human individuals at the site now demonstrate a remarkable degree of genetic continuity over the last 9,000 years: the contemporary ‡Khomani San and Karretjiemense from South Africa still show direct signs of relatedness to the Oakhurst hunter-gatherers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckpFA0j38u4
https://theconversation.com/a-lonely-and-ancient-plant-needs-a-female-partner-and-researchers-are-using-drones-and-ai-to-find-it-podcast-239322?
Rsearch fellow Laura Cinti talks to The Conversation Weekly podcast about her quest to find a female version of the endangered E. woodii cycad using drones and AI.