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The ambition to revive the extinct breed
Archeology

The ambition to revive the extinct breed

Professor George Church from Harvard Medical School, believes that he could reconstruct the DNA of the ancient Neanderthals and revive the extinct breed 33,000 years ago.

December 17, 2018
The ancient Aztec math system was decoded
Archeology

The ancient Aztec math system was decoded

Not only is the tax code of today complicated. Ancient Aztecs with tax systems are also not simpler. In order to measure taxed land strips, Aztec mathematicians had to d…

December 17, 2018
The inscriptions of the Incas are hidden in knots
Archeology

The inscriptions of the Incas are hidden in knots

More than 500 years before the advent of computers, the Incas living in the Andes (Peru) invented a 7-bit binary code to store information, and represent them with knott…

December 17, 2018
Asteroids are named Wikipedia
Space science

Asteroids are named Wikipedia

The asteroid 274,301, discovered by Ukrainian astronomers on August 25, 2008, has just been named Wikipedia in honor of this open encyclopedia.

December 17, 2018