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This Man’s DNA Is the Oldest in North America 0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- May 9, 2019
A Native American man in Montana has what may be the oldest DNA native to the Americas, according to news reports.

By David Aragorn
Huge asteroid destroys New York in Nasa simulation after scientists fail to deflect it 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- May 9, 2019
Fictional crash tests the ways that disaster response and space agencies would deal with such a natural disaster

By David Aragorn
A new filter to better map the dark universe 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- May 9, 2019
New method cuts through galaxies’ messy emissions, provides clearer window into dark matter, dark energy

By David Aragorn
A multi-scale body-part mask guided attention network for person re-identification 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- May 9, 2019
Person re-identification entails the automated identification of the same person in multiple images from different cameras and with different backgrounds, angles or positions.

By David Aragorn
Embryo stem cells created from skin cells 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- May 8, 2019
Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HU) have found a way to transform skin cells into the three major stem cell types that comprise early-stage embryos. The work (in mouse cells) has significant implications for modelling embryonic disease and placental dysfunctions, as well as paving the way to create whole embryos from skin cells.

By David Aragorn
Simulated asteroid strike flattens Manhattan 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- May 8, 2019
Space experts from several agencies failed to stop an asteroid fragment from wiping out New York City last week.

By David Aragorn
Antimatter keeps with quantum theory. It’s both particle and wave 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- May 3, 2019
A variation of the classic double-slit experiment is applied to a positron for the first time

By David Aragorn
Pirates Made Ocean Vortex ‘The Great Whirl’ Inaccessible. So Scientists Studied It from Space.0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- May 3, 2019
An enormous ocean whirlpool the size of Colorado appears every spring off the coast of Somalia, and it’s so big, scientists can see it from space.

By David Aragorn
German scientists create see-through human organs 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- May 3, 2019
Researchers in Germany have created transparent human organs using a new technology that could pave the way to print three-dimensional body parts such as kidneys for transplants.

By David Aragorn
Scientists turn brain signals into speech, may help people who cannot talk 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- May 2, 2019
People robbed of the ability to talk due to a stroke or another medical condition may soon have real hope of regaining a voice thanks to technology that harnesses brain activity to produce synthesized speech, researchers said on Wednesday.

By David Aragorn