A new paper finds inconsistencies in how forensics researchers talk about race and ancestry. Here's how the field can account for gene flow, migration, etc.
Matt Shipman-NC State •
futurity
July 16, 2021
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~9 min
DNA from a fossilized jawbone has allowed researchers to piece together the genome of one of the largest lemurs ever, which could weigh up to 350 pounds.
Robin Smith-Duke •
futurity
July 12, 2021
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~8 min
Radiocarbon dating of rabbit and deer bones found in a Mexican cave in the 1960s suggest the first humans arrived in North America about 30,000 years ago.
Angie Hunt-Iowa State •
futurity
June 2, 2021
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~7 min
About 20,000 adult T. rex probably lived in North America at any one time. That's a total of 2.5 billion over about 2 1/2 million years it walked the Earth.
Robert Sanders-UC Berkeley •
futurity
April 20, 2021
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~11 min
3D imaging technology used to analyze nearly 600,000 limb poses of modern birds and alligators offers clues to how dinosaurs moved from place to place.
Corrie Pikul-Brown •
futurity
Feb. 11, 2021
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~6 min
A platform called bio-thermal scanning probe lithography (bio-tSPL), takes a "photograph" of the bone tissue, and then uses the photograph to produce a replica of it.
Karl Greenberg-NYU •
futurity
Feb. 10, 2021
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~6 min