There had been some theories that, you know, there'd been a sort of intermediary stone circle somewhere in wales. Researchers have been searching for it, and it looks like they've found it. In particular, they looks at one sort of area only a few kilometers from where the stones were quarried. Ad therewas kind of four stones there that looked a little bit like kind of thestonehenge stone circle, right?
Researchers sequence the oldest DNA ever recovered, and the people bringing art and science together.
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00:46 Million-year-old mammoth DNA
This week, researchers have smashed a long-standing record by sequencing a genome that's over a million years old. They achieved this feat by extracting DNA from permafrost-preserved mammoth teeth, using it to build-up a more detailed family tree for these ancient animals.
12:18 Putting art into science (and science into art)
Art and science are sometimes considered disparate, but when brought together the results can be greater than the sum of their parts. This week we hear from an artist and a scientist on the benefits they found when crossing the divide.
We discuss some highlights from the Nature Briefing. This time, a neanderthal gene makes brain-like organoids bumpy, and uncovering the original location of Stonehenge’s stone circle.