Oldest Fingerprint, AI Decoding Wolf Language, And Injecting Life On Other Worlds?

This week on Break It Down: The oldest fingerprint in the world might be left by a Neanderthal hoping to complete a face, scientists propose seeding life on Enceladus to see what would happen, we’re starting to understand more about the Incas’ mysterious string writing system, bioacoustics research could pave the way for us to chat to wolves in Yellowstone, prions prove they are just as scary as we always thought when they take over a woman's brain after 50 years, and we explore just how much memory humans really have in these big old noggins of ours.  

 

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Neanderthal fingerprints
Injecting life
Inca string writing system
Language of wolves
Prions
Memory capacity of the brain
Papahānaumokuākea
Trawling impact
Kilauea
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