English media is gushing over the news of the first “de-extinction event” that saw a yellow wildflower unique to northeast England brought back to life. Extinct since 1991, the York groundsel managed to carry on thanks to a handful of seed that was shed from three potted specimens on a windowsill…
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Reprinted with permission from World at Large, an independent news outlet covering conflict, travel, science, conservation, and health and fitness. Archaeologists working in Spain’s most famous archaeological site have uncovered a 5,400-year-old tomb that perfectly aligns to the summer solstice sunrise in such a way as to be described as “domesticated sunlight”….
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A 153,000-year-old footprint found in South Africa could be the world’s oldest ever made by our species. Older footprints from the Homo genus have been found in Spain, but it’s not perfectly clear which species they belonged to as they pre-date the earliest evidence of neanderthals in Europe. Scientists working in Africa…
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An antibiotic that could be used to treat one of the world’s most drug-resistant superbugs has been discovered by a supercomputer using AI. Artificial intelligence is proving to be a great tool for combating antimicrobial resistance, which the World Health Organization named as one of the top ten global public health…
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A totally science-fiction device developed by scientists in Massachusetts would allow people to pull electricity out of thin air. Back in 2020, GNN reported on an exciting experimental technology called Air-gen. It used a protein nanowire film derived from the bacteria species Geobacter sandwiched between two electrodes that could generate electricity via…
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Britain’s butterflies are bouncing back thanks in largest part to Britons’ gardens providing a safe haven, a new report reveals. The study was the first to look at butterfly trends in UK gardens separately from those in the wider countryside and found that half of the 22 species of butterflies surveyed…
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A new study concludes that an extinct volcano off the shore of Portugal could store as much as 1.2-8.6 gigatons of carbon dioxide, the equivalent of 24-125 years of the country’s industrial emissions. Doing so would rely on a method known as “in situ mineral carbonization,” which works when the CO2…
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