#Australian Indigenous banana cultivation found to go back over 2,000 years

“#Australian Indigenous banana cultivation found to go back over 2,000 years” Ancient banana cultivation site at Wagadagam, Mabuyag Islan, Torres Strait Credit: ANU Archaeologists at The Australian National University (ANU) have found the earliest evidence of Indigenous communities cultivating bananas in Australia. The evidence of cultivation and plant management dates back 2,145 years and was…

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#Buried GitHub archival storage to last 1,000 years

“#Buried GitHub archival storage to last 1,000 years” Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain If civilization ever succumbs to global warming, nuclear annihilation, an unrelenting pandemic or a martian invasion, some future civilization—or alien life form—might well still be able to reconstruct today’s computers and compose advanced machine learning algorithms … and perhaps even play a round…

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#Texas will face driest conditions of the last 1,000 years

“#Texas will face driest conditions of the last 1,000 years” Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Texas’ future climate will feature drier summers and decreasing water supplies for much of the state for the remainder of the 21st century—likely resulting in the driest conditions the state has endured in the last 1,000 years, according to a team…

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