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Fish Fossil Asteroids - DTNS Science News Monthly 5

Daily Tech News Show

Tom Merritt

Technology, News

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2022

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Monthly Science News is here! Our science correspondent @AckermansNicole goes over the major science stories from February 2022 including; fish fossils that explain why some species survived the asteroid extinction event, how tech affects climate change, scientists using ultrasound to save a species from extinction, and AR mammoths.


hosted by Nicole Ackermans


Sources:


Fish fossil asteroid:

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1817407116

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-04446-1


Vaccine copies:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00293-2?WT.ec_id=NATURE-20220217&utm_source=nature_etoc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20220217&sap-outbound-id=5C0F845D42526DCC35BB5A0F9A7FE67D0A77777A


Mollusk ultrasound:

https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.784481


AR mammoths:

https://doi.org/10.26879/1191


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Transcript

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A tech demo shows off the usual tech things.

0:04.0

Then I'm going to jump to a link.

0:05.0

Using the usual tech devices.

0:07.0

We have a plane device called our mouse.

0:09.0

Doing the usual tech productivity tasks.

0:11.0

Now we're connected audio.

0:13.0

You can see my work. You can point at it.

0:15.0

And I can see your face and we can talk.

0:17.0

Except it's 1968 and it's going to set the computing agenda

0:20.0

for the next half century, then almost immediately be ignored.

0:24.0

The mother of all demos on no a little more.

0:27.0

Get it wherever you get your podcasts.

0:30.0

Hello DTS listeners and welcome back to another edition

0:41.0

of the monthly science news.

0:43.0

I'm Dr. Nikki Ackerman's your science correspondent

0:46.0

here with some of the top science and tech stories

0:49.0

that happened this February.

0:51.0

Starting out with paleontology.

0:53.0

An enormous asteroid hit the Earth 66 million years ago.

0:57.0

This is not news.

0:59.0

It was during the Cretaceous period and it triggered a global extinction

1:02.0

that wiped out 76% of life on Earth, including a lot of dinosaurs.

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