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

and here's a short piece from the April 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 Bolivia, a new study traces how smoke

plumes from heavy Amazon burning in 2007 and 2010 deposited black carbon and dust in the Andes,

speeding up melting of the Zongo glacier by boosting heat absorption. From Italy, new analysis suggests

a fragment of ancient glass may have formed from a Herculaneum

inhabitants' brain, heated by the AD 79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius.

From Cameroon, bones of children buried in the grasslands 3,000 and 8,000 years ago provided

the first ancient human DNA from the region.

The discovery illuminates early

genetic diversity and at least one long gone population. From Finland, Aurora Chasers helped to

identify a new feature in the Northern Lights, nicknamed the Dunes, it may reflect an elusive

type of ripple in Earth's upper atmosphere.

From Japan, researchers isolated and grew an intriguing single-celled microorganism in the lab,

...