This was an entertaining read for me, maybe some of you will like it too!

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Most species are transitory. They go extinct, branch into new species or change over time due to random mutations and environmental shifts. A typical mammalian species can be expected to exist for a million years.

Modern humans, Homo sapiens, have been around for roughly 300,000 years. So what will happen if we make it to a million years?

Science fiction author H.G. Wells was the first to realise that humans could evolve into something very alien.

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Fieldwork is under way to excavate a rare, well-preserved specimen in central China.

Measures taken to guarantee Shenzhou-15 launch at ultra-low temperature.

New alloy showed a large elastic limiting strain greater than 4.3%.

The remains seem like they were only a few weeks old despite the fact that the dinosaur died over 110 million years ago.

Controlling light “has been a recurring research theme since antiquity.”

An international group of researchers, led by a team at MIT, spent more than four years developing technologies for high-speed optical beam forming.

The researchers also developed a pioneering fabrication process that will ensure the quality of the device if and when it is manufactured at scale.

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Sampson Wilcox.

The Y chromosome carries a gene called SRY, which turns on male genes on other chromosomes.

The Amami spiny rat, one of the species that lack a Y chromosome and the Sry.

As per the press release, under normal conditions, the Sry gene on the Y chromosome triggers the formation of the testes. However, the Sry gene, along with the Y chromosome, has vanished in a small number of rodent species.

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Scientists have developed a programmable, wireless spatial light modulator that can manipulate light at the wavelength scale with orders-of-magnitude faster response than existing devices.