Tag: human dna

Greenpeace Claims Fukushima Water Release Could Change Human DNA

An anonymous reader quotes CNN: Contaminated water that could soon be released into the sea from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant contains radioactive carbon with the potential to damage human DNA, environmental rights organization Greenpeace has warned. The environmental group claims that the 1.23 million metric tons of water stored at the plant — scene of the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi…

Does coronavirus linger in the body?

Some viruses can hide out in the body and reemerge at later times. Which viruses do this, and can the new coronavirus do this too? Source: https://earthsky.org/human-world/does-coronavirus-linger-in-body-immune-system-covid…

Cannibal tooth yields oldest ever human DNA

Scientists have analyzed genetic material from a tooth of an ancient human ancestor that lived 800,000 years ago. In a new study published earlier thi… Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/336146/cannibal-tooth-yields-oldest-ever-human-dna…

World’s oldest human DNA found in 800,000-year-old tooth of a cannibal

A protein analysis of an 800,000-year-old tooth suggests the supposed cannibal species Homo antecessor was only distantly related to humans and Neanderthals. Source: https://www.livescience.com/oldest-human-ancestor-dna-homo-antecessor.html

Did these tardigrades survive crash-landing on the moon?

When Israel’s Beresheet lunar spacecraft crashed in April 2019, there were thousands of microscopic, dehydrated tardigrades – water bears – aboard. Source: https://earthsky.org/human-world/tardigrades-lunar-library-beresheet-spacecraft-crash-moon…

Tardigrades Are Now On the Moon Thanks To a Crashed Israeli Spacecraft

Tardigrades, the microsopic water-dwelling animals that can survive almost any environment, may be on the moon thanks to an Israeli spacecraft called Beresheet. The spacecraft was carrying thousands of dehydrated tardigrades (among other cargo) when it crashed due to glitches with the landing process. CNET reports: The Israeli spacecraft was transporting Arch Mission’s first lunar library, a digital archive holding the…

Mystery hominin had sex with ancestors of Neanderthals and Denisovans

A strange signal in ancient and modern human DNA suggests the ancestors of Neanderthals and Denisovans must have mated with an unknown species of human Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2206003-mystery-hominin-had-sex-with-ancestors-of-neanderthals-and-denisovans/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…