A new archeological discovery might be from the day of the big asteroid strike that took down the dinosaurs, bird goo is helping us understand airplane accidents, and find out about the most human-like robot finger you’ve ever seen!

Glass Rain Dinosaur Pain 

Tanis: Fossil of Dinosaur Killed in Asteroid Strike Found, Scientists Claim by Jonathan Amoshttps://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-61013740Scientists Claim They've Found a Perfectly Preserved Dinosaur Fossil Killed When the Mass Extinction Asteroid Hit the Earth 66 Million Years Ago by Marianne Guenot and Alia Shoaibhttps://www.businessinsider.in/science/news/scientists-claim-theyve-found-a-perfectly-preserved-dinosaur-fossil-killed-when-the-mass-extinction-asteroid-hit-the-earth-66-million-years-ago/articleshow/90760067.cmsThe Day the Dinosaurs Died by Douglas Prestonhttps://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/04/08/the-day-the-dinosaurs-diedA Seismically Induced Onshore Surge Deposit at the KPg Boundary, North Dakota by Robert A. DePalma, et al.https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1817407116Chicxulub Impact Event: Discovering the Impact Site by Lunar and Planetary Institutehttps://www.lpi.usra.edu/science/kring/Chicxulub/discovery/

Snarge Science

‘Snarge’ Happens, and Studying It Makes Your Flight Safer by Jason Bittelhttps://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/14/science/snarge-birds-airplanes.htmlSmithsonian Institution, Feather Identification Lab by Federal Aviation Administrationhttps://www.faa.gov/airports/airport_safety/wildlife/smithsonian/Bird Strike - An Experimental, Theoretical, and Numerical Investigation by Reza Hedayati and Mojtaba Sadighi.https://app.knovel.com/hotlink/toc/id:kpBSAETNI2/bird-strike-an-experimental/bird-strike-an-experimentalIdentifying the Bird, When Not Much Bird Is Left by Matthew L. Waldhttps://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/25/science/25birds.html

Human Skin Cyborg

“How Humanlike Do We Really Want Robots to Be?” by Brian Handwerkhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-humanlike-do-we-really-want-robots-to-be-180980234/“Living skin on a robot” by Michio Kawai, Minghao Nie, Haruka Oda, Yuya Morimoto, and Shoji Takeuchihttps://www.cell.com/matter/fulltext/S2590-2385(22)00239-9

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