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slash UK slash AI for people. I'm Scientific American Assistant News Editor Sarah Lewin-Frasier,

and here's a short piece from the May 2020 issue of the

magazine in the 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-coronavirus stories from around the globe.

From Chile, baffled by unexplained skin lesions on blue whales, scientists shot

darts by crossboat to take samples from the whales blisters and fat in a bid to identify potential

pollutant causes. From Russia, a 46,000-year-old bird recovered from the Siberian permafrost

is in such good condition that it looks like it died

days ago, researchers say. It is the only nearly intact bird carcass found from the most recent ice age.

From Zimbabwe and Mozambique, new research on African turquoise killafish, which live in ponds

that dry up seasonally, reveals that their embryos can suspend development

by up to two years, with no impact on their ultimate lifespan after hatching.

From China, researchers in the north uncovered fossils of the oldest green algae on record,

a multicellular 2-millimeter organism that lived a billion years ago, the earliest known ancestor of today's

photosynthesizing plants. From Malaysia, scientists say they are scaling up an experimental farm

that uses metal-loving plants to draw and harvest nickel from the soil in the Malaysian portion of Borneo.

The expanded farm will cover 50 acres. From Austria, for the first time,

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