#PS TodayView# , the most compelling new scientific discoveries of 2022.
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1/ A spectacular fossil complex found in southeastern Australia reveals a prehistoric rainforest 11 million ~ 16 million years ago.
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2/ The Perseverance rover is looking for signs of life near Jezero Crater, two holes in the rock where it drills core samples with robotic arms. In late December 2022, the Perseverance rover stopped working.
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3/ A 17th-century Spanish shipwreck has been found off the northern coast of Oregon, which coincides with the "Santo Cristo de Burgos" from the Philippines to Mexico in 1693.
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4/ Yale scientists preserved several functional organs, including the brain, heart, liver and kidney, an hour after the animal's death. This research will help prolong the viability of human organs used for transplantation.
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5/ An undersea volcano erupts in Tonga, one of the strongest volcanic eruptions on Earth in nearly a century. So far, everything about this eruption is strange.
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6/ Scientists have discovered a new species of snail in Vietnam, named "Psammion" (a grain of sand), and their caves are only 0.6 mm in diameter.
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7/ A landmark report of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change sheds light on the impact of climate change on human health.
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8/ The James Webb Space Telescope is the newest and most powerful "eye of the sky" to date, allowing us to see deeper into the universe.
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9/ Stunning ancient artwork was discovered at the site of the attack by the extremist group ISIS. It is believed that these 700 BC slabs originally came from the southwestern palace of the ancient city of Nineveh near Mosul in northern Iraq, and the slabs may have depicted the military operations of the Assyrian king Senaquirib.
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10/ Iceland is one of the few places in the world where the mid-ocean ridge is partially above the surface. Scientists are exploring the volcano here, a window into the workings of Earth.
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11/ Cambodian fishermen accidentally caught a giant stingray (an endangered species) weighing 300 kg in the Mekong River, which is also the largest known freshwater fish in the world.
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12/ New details of the asteroid hitting the Earth: One spring 66 million years ago, an asteroid with a diameter of more than 10 kilometers crashed into the waters near the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico (leaving a huge undersea crater Chicxulub), which caused a drastic shift in the trajectory of life on Earth, and 3/4 of species went extinct, including all dinosaurs except birds.
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13/ For the first time, plastic less than 1 micron in diameter was found in donated human blood. Ecotoxicologists say plastic shouldn't be in your blood.
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14/ The Denisovans were a mysterious relative of the Neanderthals. In a cave in Laos, scientists announced the discovery of possible Denisovan molars, thousands of kilometers away from other sites.
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15/ New evidence suggests that jumping spiders experience a dream-like state. When napping, the jumping spider will drape on a silk thread, curl its legs, and occasionally twitch, as if dreaming.
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16/ This is the oldest dinosaur fossil found in Africa. They were found in gravelly-bearing feldspar sandstone formations in Zimbabwe, about 230 million years ago (Triassic period).
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17/ "Wonder plants" thought to have gone extinct before 2000 have been rediscovered. Silphion, a golden-flowered plant that was a panacea for ancient Greek physicians, was once stored in the treasury of the ancient Roman Empire along with treasures.
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18/ Antarctica ice shelf "accidentally" fractured.