¡Hola, mis amigos de la ciencia! This week, researchers reported that hominins strode bipedally across Europe 500,000 years earlier than previously known. By making digital endocasts of bird skulls, researchers in Australia and Canada report an extremely tight match between actual birds’ brains and the digital reconstructions, making brain studies of rare and extinct species possible. And the SMART tokamak facility, a state-of-the-art fusion power generator, successfully generated its first plasma.
Saturday Citations: Europe is sun powered; mitochondria lead busy lives; Plus: life in the big, interdependent city
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