MI weekly selection #60
MI weekly selection #60
Paleontologists find evidence sauropods lived into Cretaceous period
A sauropod belonging to the dinosaur group Titanosauria appears to have lived during the Early Cretaceous period providing evidence that sauropods lived beyond the Jurassic period. The remains of a juvenile Yongjinglong datangi were uncovered in northwestern China.
Luhman 16B, where it rains liquid iron
A hybrid planet-star dubbed Luhman 16B has molten iron rain. The brown dwarf is surrounded by patchy clouds made up of liquid iron mixed with other minerals that rain down on the hot, gaseous failed star.
Hawkingâs black hole theory stirs debate among scientists
Stephen Hawkingâs new black hole study has caused a stir in the scientific community. Some colleagues donât accept his conclusion that event horizons donât exist, and argue that the two-page report hasnât been peer-reviewed.
Fifth of Neanderthalsâ genetic code lives on in modern humans
Traces are lasting legacy of sexual encounters between modern human direct ancestors and Neanderthals from 65,000 years ago
Black Death bacteria may have contributed to the fall of the Roman Empire
Sequenced DNA from two skeletons buried in 6th-century Germany suggests that a virulent plague that struck the Roman Empire during the reign of Emperor Justinian in 541 A.D. came from a strain of Yersinia pestis, the bacteria that caused the Black Death, which struck Europe in 1348.