Scientists discover a mysterious ancient human population
A research technique pioneered by scientists at UCLA has used computer modeling techniques on modern human DNA to discover a mysterious ancient human population that, much like the Neanderthals and Denisovans, is thought to have interbred with modern humans before dying out, with anywhere from 2 to 19 percent of DNA in modern West Africans belonging to this mysterious and unnamed hominin ancestor.
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Scientists discover fish migration route 4500 ft below sea level
A recently concluded study from a large number of collaborating groups in universities around the world has photographed evidence of a deep-sea fish migration route that was first theorized to exist when scientists noticed that deep-sea fish populations exhibited seasonal patterns. While the exact route is still unclear, scientists have managed to prove that the migration route exists 4,500 feet below sea level in the Atlantic Ocean.
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Scientists find the largest explosion since the Big Bang
A collaboration of scientists operating telescopes in the US, Europe, India, and Australia have found what they believe to be the greatest explosion in the universe since the Big Bang. The explosion is believed to have been caused by a supermassive black hole in the Ophiuchus galaxy cluster containing thousands of galaxies. The black hole blew a one-and-a-half-million light-year hole in the middle of the cluster.
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Celebrated NASA scientist Katherine Johnson dies at 101
Celebrated NASA scientist Katherine Johnson, one of the only black women during the 1950s who worked on NASA's Apollo Missions, has died aged 101. Johnson was part of the key NASA team responsible for making complex calculations with only a slide rule and pencil that eventually landed the Apollo 11 on the moon, and allowed it to return to Earth safely.
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Drug developed by AI gets first human trials
An artificial intelligence created by a collaboration between British firm Exscientia and Japanese pharmaceutical company Sumitomo Dainippon Pharma has developed a drug that is going to enter the first phase of human trials in Japan. The drug is a treatment for those suffering from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, and while human-engineered drugs take up to five years to develop, the AI took only a year to engineer the medicine.
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