“Lux” is the second episode of the 15th season of the new “Doctor Who” series, also indicated as season 2, and follows “The Robot Revolution”. It’s available in the UK and Ireland on BBC channels and in many other countries on the Disney+ platform.
Beware that in various adverts and marketing materials, this season is promoted as season 2 passing through a new start with the production by Bad Wolf and distribution by Disney+, hence the double notation.
An article published in the journal “Science” reports the attribution of a fossil mandible discovered in Taiwan to a Denisovan. A team of researchers conducted an analysis of amino acids still present in the mandible and in the enamel of the teeth still present, detecting two variants that were part of proteins specific to the Denisovan species. These are variants still present in some Asian populations that inherited genes from Denisovans. This discovery expands the area in which traces of this ancient human species have been found, a species that in some ways is still mysterious.
The novel “Nowhere to Hide” by Jude Austin was published for the first time in 2022. It’s the third book in the Projects series, later indicated as the Five Worlds series, and follows “Homecoming”.
Kalin Taylor, now known as Kata, is trying to rebuild his life but it seems that some people have no intention of leaving him alone, starting with his parents. Tau continues to write him emails but in his case, it’s an attempt to keep in touch with the first person who considered him a person and not a tool. Kurai tries to give Tau a hand but he too, albeit in a different way, must deal with his past.
Vasari Adrianne Demont of the planet Trandellia has her own agenda, and to get what she wants, she must capture a specific person on the planet Atthiras. She sends a group of holin, elite forces specialized in infiltration and assassination, to look for them. The holin are used to working alone or in small groups, without a hierarchy, so an operation conducted by a large group can create problems. Diran realizes that those problems can lead to clashes among the holin themselves, but the important thing is the success of the operation.
“The Robot Revolution” is the first episode of the 15th season of the new “Doctor Who” series, also indicated as season 2. The show resumes after “Joy to the World”. It’s available in the UK and Ireland on BBC channels and in many other countries on the Disney+ platform.
Beware that in various adverts and marketing materials, this season is promoted as season 2 passing through a new start with the production by Bad Wolf and distribution by Disney+, hence the double notation.
An article published in the “Journal of Systematic PalaeontologyJournal of Systematic Palaeontology” reports a study of Helmetia expansa, a species of arthropod that lived about 505 million years ago, in the Middle Cambrian period. Sarah Losso, Jean-Bernard Caron, and Javier Ortega-Hernández examined the fossils discovered over the years in the famous Burgess Shale site for a total of 36 specimens comparing them with species considered close relatives of Helmetia expansa, as they’re included in the Conciliterga group. Over a century after the discovery of the first fossils, this is the first real description of these arthropods that were probably quite close relatives of trilobites.
