Researchers have now concluded the first complete sequences of the male Y chromosomes of Australian Aborigines. It has revealed a deep indigenous genetic history sketching all the way back to the original settlement of the continent 50 thousand years ago. The study was conducted by researchers from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and several other ...
Going for an interview for a job can be stressful, so imagine having to go for one with a huge company like Google. The Internet giant would ask some ridiculously off-the-planet questions and brain teasers before the company banned them in 2011. Now, it must be remembered that most of these questions didn’t have an answer; they ...
Enthusiast Giuseppe Donatiello spotted the dwarf galaxy while scrutinizing publicly available data and his finding was investigated by professional astrophysicists, led by Dr. David Martinez-Delgado from the Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia, who used deeper images taken with the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo. By processing the data and performing photometric calibration, they confirmed the finding is a ...
“I have developed a real passion for a midge,” said Valeria Lencioni in an interview with GlacierHub. The midge in question, Diamesa steinboecki, is one of the highly endangered insects that she observed in the glacial streams of the Italian Alps where she conducts her research. When she started studying glacial fauna in 1996, little was ...
The Moon’s surface is covered by numerous craters that date back to the impacts of asteroids. Age determinations on lunar rocks formed during these impacts show a surprising clustering at ages of about 3.9 billion years before present, or about 500 million years after the Moon was formed. These observations have led to the theory ...
Something big happened to the planet about a million years ago. There was a major shift in the response of Earth’s climate system to variations in our orbit around the Sun. The shift is called the Mid-Pleistocene Transition. Before the MPT, cycles between glacial (colder) and interglacial (warmer) periods happened every 41,000 years. After the MPT, ...
This jewel-bright image taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features the spiral galaxy NGC 2903. The telescope captured this image using the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) and Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3), installed in 2002 and 2009 respectively. Interestingly, it observed this particular galaxy in 2001, before the ACS and the WFC3 were installed. ...
Back in the 1960s in a Yale University basement, some interesting and controversial experiments were carried out by psychologist Stanley Milgram. His findings showed people would follow orders and inflict pain on another person purely because someone in a position of authority told them to. So how easy is it to convince good people to follow ...
It has been known for some time now that Mars’ largest moon, Phobos, has been moving toward its parent planet, the victim of Mars’ gravity. But researchers have discovered that the moon has already started to fall apart. There are indications that the long, shallow grooves on the surface of Phobos, once thought to be impact ...
Last summer, archaeologists from the University of Münster discovered a previously unknown sanctuary from the Roman era during excavation work in the ancient town of Doliche in southeastern Turkey. Over a period of nine weeks, the team — headed by Prof. Engelbert Winter and Prof. Michael Blömer from the Asia Minor Research Centre — uncovered ...
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