Cave lions likely killed'Yuka' when she was around 8 years old. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. A 40,000-year-old juvenile woolly mammoth named Yuka is not only remarkable because she was uncovered nearly intact or her grisly cause of death. Her muscles provided paleogeneticists with the oldest known RNA sequences ever recovered. Detailed in a study published on November 14 in the journal, the samples contradict previous assumptions about the genetic material's resilience while furthering our understanding of the famous, extinct megafauna.

Using supervised automatic summarisation methods requires sufficient corpora that include pairs of documents and their summaries. Similarly to many tasks in natural language processing, most of the datasets available for summarization are in English, posing challenges for developing summarization models in other languages. Thus, in this work, we introduce RoLargeSum, a novel large-scale summarization dataset for the Romanian language crawled from various publicly available news websites from Romania and the Republic of Moldova that were thoroughly cleaned to ensure a high-quality standard. RoLargeSum contains more than 615K news articles, together with their summaries, as well as their headlines, keywords, dialect, and other metadata that we found on the targeted websites. We further evaluated the performance of several BART variants and open-source large language models on RoLargeSum for benchmarking purposes. We manually evaluated the results of the best-performing system to gain insight into the potential pitfalls of this data set and future development.

A 200-acre wide, nearly 300-foot deep pit in the Yana highlands of Siberia, known as the'Batagaika Crater,' is expanding faster than expected due to climate change. Sometimes called the'Gateway to Hell,' the Batagaika Crater first formed when melting'permafrost' soil within the Siberian tundra began to release tons of previously frozen methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, into Earth's atmosphere. Now, new research has discovered that the rate of methane and other carbon gases released as the crater deepens has reached between 4000 and 5000 tons per year. The findings, according to the study's lead author, 'demonstrate how quickly permafrost degradation occurs.' He warns the crater is soon likely to leak all the remaining greenhouse gas it has left.

A breathtaking new video shows a Russian drone pilot flying his tiny craft to an altitude normally reserved for passenger jets. Denis Koryakin pushed his gadget 33,000ft (6 miles/10,000 metres) into the air in what is believed to be a world-record height for an everyday hobby drone. The footage shows the curvature of the Earth gradually pull into view while the drone shakes and buzzes as it rises through the clouds above a remote region of Siberia. Meghan Markle jokes that one day she'll need all the baby products Due to strict laws on the maximum altitudes drones are permitted to fly to, previous reports of the highest-ever flight have only reached of around 15,000ft (4,500m/2.8 Mr Koryakin's ascent took place in a remote region of Russia near the Siberian city of Strejevoï, where there are no altitude restrictions on small drone flights.

But modern tools are helping to revive Ireland's national language. An Irish proverb advises that it is often wise for one to hold his tongue. An té is ciúine is é is buaine, or "he who is silent is the stronger." But that ancestral wisdom isn't the best policy when the very language it comes from is threatened. The Irish language, Gaelic, is one of more than 40 percent of the world's 6,000 spoken languages that are endangered, according to UNESCO.

Rare images of a wildcat on the brink of extinction have been caught by animal protection volunteers in Siberia. The endangered Pallas's wildcats have been hunted by poachers for their fur which can be sold on the black market to be made into mittens. Native to remote regions of southern Siberia, as well as Central Asia and China, they are seldom seen, and known for their reclusive and solitary lives. 'They are secretive and do not like to be seen, making these images rather special,' reported The Siberian Times. This cat was caught on camera a whisker away from an animal camera trap as it surveyed the scene in the Altai Nature Reserve in mountainous southern Siberia.