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• Joshua Abrahams

  

  18 hours ago

  Gold miner in Canada finds mummified 35,000-year-old woolly mammoth

  The Guardian - Ashifa Kassam

  It was a young miner, digging through the northern Canadian permafrost in the seemingly aptly named Eureka Creek, who sounded the alarm when his front-end loader struck something unexpected in the Klondike gold fields. What he had stumbled upon would later be described by the territory’s …

• Joshua Abrahams

  

  1 day ago

  Researchers created gene-edited hamsters full of rage in an experiment gone wrong

  bgr.com - Joshua Hawkins

  A group of researchers made gene-edited hamsters that were meant to be less aggressive. The researchers used CRISPR, a gene-editing platform, to …

• Joshua Abrahams

  

  23 hours ago

  DNA from an ancient grave reveals the Black Death’s patient zero

  SYFY WIRE - Cassidy Ward

  A Knight’s Tale is a classic story of medieval adventure following William Thatcher (Heath Ledger) as he attempts to win riches, glory, and honor in …

• Joshua Abrahams

  

  14 hours ago

  The powerhouse of the cell has a more complicated origin than we thought

  Inverse - Viviane Callier

  For billions of years after the origin of life, the only living things on Earth were tiny, primitive cells resembling today’s bacteria. But then, …

• Joshua Abrahams

  

  23 hours ago

  Photographer Treks To Hidden Ice Caves Within the Canadian Rocky Mountains

  My Modern Met - Jessica Stewart

  For Stanley Aryanto of The Wicked Hunt, photography is much more than “getting the shot.” It's all about adventure. Since we last caught up with Aryanto after taking an incredible photo of Neowise Comet, he has certainly been on quite an adventure; his latest journey took him to the Canadian …

• Joshua Abrahams

  

  20 hours ago

  ‘Rogue black holes’ might be neither ‘rogue’ nor ‘black holes’

  Popular Science - Eva Botkin-Kowacki

  Millions of invisible black holes float freely around our galaxy. Now astronomers think they can spot them. When a star 20 times as massive as our sun dies, it can explode in a supernova and squeeze back down into a dense black hole (with gravity’s help). But that explosion is never perfectly …