This Week In Science News

 

Imagine you're a farmer digging a hole. Then imagine that while you're digging you find a fossil. But not just any fossil, a woolly mammoth fossil! That's exactly what happened to James Bristle of Lima Township.

The de Blasio administration and New York City Economic Development Corporation marked the one-year anniversary of Digital.NYC, a first-of-its-kind online platform and centralized hub that has united the City’s tech ecosystem. 
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​Nearly 30 years after the nuclear disaster that forced thousands of people from their homes researchers find the animals are back - and thriving. Animals like elk, wild boar, red deer, and roe deer are flourishing in an unlikely place — Chernobyl.

Homo naledi, the ancient human ancestor whose fossils have been retrieved from a South African cave, may have been handy with tools and walked much like a person, according to scientists who examined its well-preserved foot and hand bones. Scientists last month announced the discovery of this previously unknown species in the human linage in a cave northwest of Johannesburg. The new research offers fresh insight into a creature that is providing valuable clues about human evolution.

Life on Mars? Maybe if you're a tough enough bacteria. An experiment set to begin this week aims to put some of our most tenacious bacteria through an ultimate survivors’ challenge.