This hebdomad , the earliest runestone ever to be reliably dated may have beencarved by a woman , a“gorilla - like ” human relativethat lived some 1.4 million years ago has been revealed by a jawbone , and an Antarctic fogy date back 68 million years proves the existence ofdinosaur - era duck . Finally , as conversations around ownership of bodies and self-direction grow , we ask : do we actually own our bodies ?
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Chances Of Asteroid 2024 YR4 Hitting Earth In 2032 Just Climbed To 2.3 Percent
The threat of Asteroid 2024 YR4 has not go away just yet . The near - Earth object was discovered in December and deliberation of its orbit show something concerning : there was a remote possibility that it was going to hit our planet . This localize 2024 YR4 at Level 3 on the Torino impact ordered series with a 1.2 percent chance of impact on December 22 , 2032 . Now , the chance of impact has just got higher . translate the full story here
World’s Oldest Runestone May Have Been Carved By A Woman
The earliestrunestoneever to be reliably dated has been discovered at a grave field in Norway , providing some fascinating insights into the extraction of runic writing . Engraved some time between 50 BCE and 275 CE , the ancient stone was finally broken aside and disperse across multiple burials , while some of the lettering suggest that the runes may have been authored by a woman . Read the full story here
This 1.4 Million-Year-Old Jawbone May Reveal A New “Gorilla-Like” Human Relative
The hominin folk tree may have a novel twig : genus Paranthropus capensis , a previously unnamed “ gorilla - similar ” human congener that lived in southern Africa some 1.4 million years ago . A novel study focuses on a hominin jawbone known as SK 15 that was unearthed in 1949 at Swartkrans , a cave in modern - day South Africa that holds a rich trove of prehistoric hominin fogey , include those of earlyHomospecies . Read the full story here
US Science Is Under Attack
We are three calendar week into Trump ’s 2nd presidency , and scientific research in the United States is in sodding confusion . A series of executive order that have been described as illegal , violating the constitution , and segregationist have inseminate chaos in the many scientific funding way across the US.Read the full tale here
68 Million-Year-Old Antarctic Fossil Proves Existence Of Dinosaur-Era Ducks
A Cretaceous - era skull bump on Vega Island , Antarctica , has been confirmed as a phallus of the same order as ducks and goofball , making it one of the oldest known examples of a modern bird . Dating from not very long before the asteroid smasher , the speciesVegavis iaai , or a near congenator , is a hard candidate for one of the few survivor of the last mass extinction . Read the full story here
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Do We Actually Own Our Bodies?
Should we be allowed to charge for sexual practice ? Do we have a right to deal our organ ? And is our DNA our own attribute ? The level of self-direction we ought to have over our flesh and bone is far from clear - cut back , and as innovations in bioengineering stay to transform our moral and economical relationships with our biologic material , the big question that emerges is : do we actually own our bodies?Read the full account here
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