Below is a summary of existing clinical developments.
The genome delves into the mystery of what doomed Earth’s last mammoths
About 4,000 years ago, Earth’s last woolly mammoth died on a remote island in the Arctic Ocean off the coast of Siberia, a melancholy end to one of the world’s charismatic Ice Age animals. But what doomed this latest mammoth population on Wrangel Island?Genomics research is deepening the mystery. The study provides the most comprehensive description to date of the inbreeding, harmful mutations and low genetic diversity experienced by this population during 6,000 years of isolation on the island, but concludes that, despite past suggestions, it is unlikely that these problems doomed the Wrangel Mammoths to failure.
Research Takes Inventory of a Famous Ancient Shipwreck off the Coast of Cyprus
When scientists excavated the remains of an ancient Greek merchant ship off the northern coast of Cyprus in the 1960s, they discovered an amazing time capsule dating back to a pivotal time in the Mediterranean world after the death of Alexander the Great. The date of Kyrenia’s sinking has proved difficult to date, and some earlier clinical dating has yielded conclusions that were at odds with the archaeological evidence. The researchers have now calculated this timeline with new precision using advanced techniques that can also be implemented to date other ancient shipwrecks.
Musk’s SpaceX receives $843 million to help the International Space Station around 2030
NASA has awarded SpaceX $843 million to build a vehicle capable of propelling the International Space Station into Earth’s environment in preparation for its planned destruction by 2030, it announced Wednesday, a task aimed first and foremost at Russian boosters. With a contract with NASA, SpaceX will build what the space company has called the American deorbit vehicle to deorbit the space station and avoid hazards to populated areas, and NASA will take ownership of the craft and manage the deorbit operation.
The Boeing Starliner’s return from space will depend on more weeks of testing
Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft will bring its two astronauts back from the International Space Station after engineers have spent “a few weeks” testing to investigate disruptions in the spacecraft’s propellant, a NASA official said Friday. Starliner, which has been docked to the ISS since June 6 after taking its first team of astronauts there, saw its control project prolonged after a series of failures in its thrusters and leaks of helium, which is used to pressurize the thrusters.
Fossil of a child with Down syndrome hints at Neanderthal compassion
Living among a small organization of Neanderthals in what is now eastern Spain, a boy of about 6 years old suffers from Down syndrome, as evidenced by the remarkable conservation characteristics of fossils in the anatomy of the inner ear, indicative of this serious genetic disease. This fossil, discovered at the archaeological site of Cova Negra, in the province of Valencia, near the city of Xàtiva, not only represents the first known evidence of Down syndrome, but, according to scientists, hints at compassionate care in those extinct archaic humans: close cousins of our own species.
A Russian crashes into space, forcing the astronauts on the ISS to take cover
An old Russian satellite has broken up into more than 100 pieces of debris in orbit, forcing astronauts on the International Space Station to stay under cover for about an hour and adding to the mass of space debris already in orbit, U. S. space agencies said. There are no main points about the reasons for the destruction of the Russian RESURS-P1 ground satellite, which Russia declared dead in 2022.
Russian scientists perform autopsy on 44,000-year-old wolf carcass in permafrost
In the Yakutia region of Russia’s far northeast, local scientists are performing an autopsy on a wolf that has been frozen in permafrost for about 44,000 years, a discovery they consider the first of its kind. Found by chance through citizens of Yakutia’s Athroughyskiy district in 2021, the wolf’s structure is only now well proven by scientists.
NASA and Boeing Continue Starliner Propulsion System Functionality
NASA announced Thursday that it will continue to compare the functionality of the Starliner’s propulsion formula with Boeing’s ahead of the shuttle’s return from the International Space Station (ISS). NASA and Boeing provided a new date for the return, which had been set. for June 26 after a setback with respect to the first prospective date of June 14.
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