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

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.

Sampson Wilcox.

They have now presented the fruits of their labor: a programmable, wireless device that can control light. The new system can manipulate the intensity of light and focus it in specific directions, and “do it orders of magnitude more quickly than commercial devices,” an MIT press statement reveals.

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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By upregulating Sox9 in the absence of Sry, the researchers found that the sequence duplication in Amami spiny rats was a novel regulatory factor.

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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.