Science in the News

There are over 50 fossilized prints that have been dated back to 6 million years ago. These prints have been believed to have been from the Cenozoic Era and have been believed they are from Orriorin Tegnensis (Early Species of Humans).

2 Million Years ago lava flowed over the moon. Just recently some Chinese researchers recovered Lunar rocks. These rocks helped scientists learn what the moon was like millions of years ago. They learned the moon started cooling down from the lava 3 million years ago.

To calculate a mass scientists look at the time it takes to orbit a comparison star. Depending on their mass certain stars hit their age milestones after a different number of years. The only star scientists know the exact age of is our sun. The spectrum of light that each star emits also allows scientist to find a relative age.

Avalanches can be caused by different things like falling rocks, earthquakes, or someone can set one off by walking or skiing in the wrong place at the wrong time. Avalanches can sometimes be preventable. People can use explosives to set off and avalanche before someone accidentally sets one off. Avalanches are extremely dangerous, a snow avalanche can plunge downward at hundreds of kilometres per hour. If someone is buried underneath the snow it is almost impossible to find them.

Farmers in Peru are trying to keep the potato diversity alive. There are 4,000 different types of potatoes that the farmers are try to conserve. It is a hard job because of the weather and climate. A coupe of key term are diversity, tuber and evolution.

Scientists received $15 million to resurrect the extinct woolly mammoth. They could extract DNA from frozen mammoth cells and add them to an Asian elephants DNA to create a hybrid mammoth. They would use the CRISPR technique. Some key terms are extinct, colossal, and ethical.

Damn are causing salmon to become extinct. Particles and Pesticides are causing them to become extinct. Fish farmers have developed and executed the techniques to grow and store salmon. Some key term are hatchery, extinct and pesticides.

Asexual reproduction in birds is rare and had never happened when there is a suitable male available. Some chickens and turkeys reproduce asexually. Condors in captivity were found to reproduce asexually even though there is a male present. Some key terms are, parthenogenesis, vertebrates and genetics.