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'Revolutionary' discovery of world's oldest DNA breaks million-year record

‘Revolutionary’ discovery of world’s oldest DNA breaks million-year record

Reconstruction of the Kap København formation two million years ago at a time when the temperature was significantly warmer than the far north of Greenland today. 1 credit A new ‘game-changing’ chapter in evolutionary history has been opened after two million years DNA DNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid, is a molecule made up of two long …

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A reconstruction of what the area where the DNA samples were found looked like. Pic: Beth Zaikenjpg

‘Revolutionary’ discovery of world’s oldest DNA could be key to tackling climate change

The discovery of the world’s oldest DNA, dating back two million years, could reveal how to fight global warming, scientists have said. Opening what has been hailed as a “revolutionary” new chapter in evolutionary history, microscopic fragments have been discovered buried deep in sediments that had accumulated over more than 20,000 years in northern Greenland. …

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"Quantum computers are revolutionary, but they won't solve everything"

“Quantum computers are revolutionary, but they won’t solve everything”

The potential of quantum computing has been hailed as revolutionary, capable of changing the way everything works in our world by finding solutions exponentially faster than today’s most powerful supercomputers. But as executives calculate the potential revenue quantum could generate and journalists scramble to find simple ways to explain the complex processes behind it, quantum …

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