The most Googled word of 2022 has been revealed – Wordle. The word game also influenced other Google searches, as seven of the top 10 searched-for word definitions in 2022 were Wordle answers: cacao, homer, canny, foray, trove, saute and tacit. The death of Queen Elizabeth II made the top five for global search interest and Ukraine was also a commonly searched term, noted the BBC. The searches were revealed by the tech giant in their annual Year in Search report.
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Ancient DNA reveals Greenland of old
The oldest DNA ever sequenced has revealed what the Arctic looked like two million years ago. Scientists in Greenland found the ancient DNA in sediment from the Ice Age, opening a new chapter in paleogenetics. Although today the area in North Greenland is a polar desert, the genetic material showed “genetic traces of elephant-like mastodons, reindeer and geese that existed alongside among birch and poplar trees”, said Nature.
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