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It’s the first ever GOP debate, and a mystery about the crash of the Russia plane
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday called the crash of a business jet carrying him and his associates “a big tragedy”. Putin’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov did not specify the reason for the crash but said that he had ordered an investigation into it. The plane, carrying 39 people, went down near the city of…
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Mastodons were a part of the ancient culture of Greenland 2 million years ago.
Svante Pbo, a scientist who spent decades trying to extract DNA from 40,000-year-old bones and ultimately unveiled the Neanderthal genome in 2010, has won the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Dalén Pbo’s team had obtained partial genomes of a million-year-old mammoth from Siberia in 2021. Ancient DNA suffers from chemical damage and tends…