About 1.5 to 2.1 percent of the DNA of anyone outside Africa is Neanderthal in origin.

http://www.livescience.com/42933-humans-carry-20-percent-neanderthal-genes.html

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"The volcano is about the size of the state of New Mexico and is among the largest in the solar system..."

http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/06/world/biggest-volcano/index.html

In other science news, I'm covered with yellow jacket stings and may die.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUYxk-y-tU8

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http://www.panoramas.dk/mars/curiosity-first-color-360.html

an international team of scientists has sequenced the genome of an archaic Siberian girl:

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/08/denisovan-genome/

http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/20/tech/thermo-acoustic-stove/index.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_world+%28RSS%3A+World%29

Big-ass crystals:


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• Fossil DNA: Using new techniques for decoding and analyzing DNA, researchers captured genetic information from Neanderthal and mammoth fossils ( Read more... )