Hr1: News Roundup, Worry, Human Settlement of the Americas, Genius, Spirals

Science Friday

A fossil find in California makes the case for human settlement of the Americas 130,000 years ago–€”more than 100,000 years earlier than previously believed. But not all anthropologists are convinced. Plus, a new TV series based on a biography of Einstein. And a mathematical artist and his never-ending blooms.

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