Modern day native people in Brazil have traces of Australasian, DNA raising new questions about how and when the first Americans arrived. Two separate genetic analyses have found evidence for a surprising genetic link between the native populations of the Americas and Oceania. The DNA of some native Amazonians shows significant similarity to indigenous inhabitants […]
The western edge of Pluto’s “heart” as seen on July 14 by New Horizons. (NASA/JHUAPL/SWRI) The latest intriguing feature spotted on Pluto is a new mountain range — one with peaks as tall as the Appalachian Mountains on Earth. The new range, shown in the image above, joins one discovered earlier that’s comparable in height to […]
When James Hansen, NASA’s former lead climate scientist, has something to say about the effects of climate change, people tend to listen up. According to a report from Slate, Hansen, along with 16 other coauthors, has concluded in a new study that glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica will likely melt 10 times faster than previous […]
Computer vision experts from Queen Mary University of London have developed software that’s already better than humans at recognising what hand-drawn sketches are supposed to represent. The program, known as Sketch-a-Net, is a ‘deep neural network’, meaning it emulates how the human brain processes inputs. It gathers data from both the shape of the object […]