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Science Quickly

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Science Quickly

Scientific American

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4.2639 Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2020

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Here are some brief reports about science and technology from around the planet, including one about a 70-million-year-old mollusk fossil that reveals years back then had a few more days than we have now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Understanding the human body is a team effort. That's where the Yachtel group comes in.

0:05.8

Researchers at Yachtolt have been delving into the secrets of probiotics for 90 years.

0:11.0

Yacold also partners with nature portfolio to advance gut microbiome science through the global grants for gut health, an investigator-led research program.

0:19.6

To learn more about Yachtolt, visit yawcult.co.j.p.

0:23.9

That's y-A-K-U-L-T dot-C-O-J-P.

0:28.4

When it comes to a guide for your gut, count on Yacolt.

0:33.7

Hi, I'm Scientific American Assistant News Editor, Sarah Lewin-Frasier, and here's a short piece

0:39.3

from the August 2020 issue of the magazine in the section called Advances, Dispatches from

0:44.6

the Frontiers of Science, Technology, and Medicine. The article is titled Quick Hits, and it's a

0:50.2

rundown of some non-coronavirus stories from around the globe. From Canada, a new study models how a gigantic, morphing blob of liquid iron in Earth's outer

1:00.0

core underneath the Canadian Arctic is losing its grip on the North magnetic pole.

1:05.2

A second intensifying blob below Siberia is pulling the pole away.

1:09.9

From Scotland, a geologic dating effort suggests

1:13.2

the fossil of a milipede-like creature found on the island of Carrara formed 425 million years ago,

1:19.9

making it possibly the oldest known fossilized land animal. Older land animals have been spotted

1:24.9

indirectly through preserved tracks.

1:33.7

From Tanzania, researchers discovered Africa's largest ever collection of fossilized human footprints, left in volcanic mud about 10,000 years ago. Many of them came from a group of 17 people,

1:40.0

mostly women, all walking in the same direction. From Norway, archaeologists are excavating a

1:46.7

20-meter Viking ship buried below a farmer's field to stop a wood-eating fungus from destroying it.

1:53.6

Ground-penetrating radar had found the ship in 2018, and a new wood sample analysis revealed that it

1:59.2

could not be preserved underground.

2:01.7

From Zambia and Mongolia, this spring, a satellite-tagged cuckoo completed an epic

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