May I have your attention please you can now book your train tickets on Uber and get

10% back in credits to spend on your next Uber ride so you don't have to walk home in the brain again.

Trains, now on Uber. T's and here's a short piece from the August 2020 issue of and it's a section called Advances

Dispatches from the Frontiers of Science, Technology, and Medicine.

The article is titled Quick Hits,

and it's a rundown of some non-Korona virus stories from around the globe.

From Canada, a new study models how a gigantic morphing blob of liquid iron in Earth's outer

core underneath the Canadian Arctic is losing its grip on the North Magnetic Pole.

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

From Scotland, a geologic dating effort suggests the fossil of a millipede-like creature found on the island of Carra formed 425 million years ago, making it possibly the oldest known fossilized land animal.

Older land animals have been spotted indirectly through preserved tracks.

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, mostly women, all walking in the same direction.

From Norway, archaeologists are excavating a 20-meter Viking ship buried below a farmer's field

to stop a wood-eating fungus from destroying it.

Ground penetrating radar had found the ship in 2018,

and a new wood sample analysis revealed that it could not be preserved underground.

From Zambia and Mongolia, this spring a satellite tagged Kuku completed an epic 12,000 kilometer journey from one country

to the other.

It had originally been tagged in Mongolia in 2019 and traversed 16 countries in its round-trip migration.

From Antarctica, scientists found that King Penguin Excriment releases nitrous oxide, also known as laughing gas.

It forms as soil bacteria eat the dropping nitrogen-rich compounds.

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