Ancient DNA shows first farmers in South-East Asia migrated from China 4,500 years ago

Researchers extracted DNA from ancient bones found in modern-day Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand and Myanmar to estimate when new genes started flowing into the Indigenous hunter-gatherer populations of the time.  They found an influx of genes from South China coincided with the appearance of agriculture in South-East Asia around 4,100 to 4,500 years ago, alongside pottery and tools made in the southern Chinese style.  A second gene "pulse" flowed from China to South-East Asia a couple of thousand years later.

A very distant fast-growing monster black hole discovered

Scientists have discovered the fastest growing black hole known in the universe.  It is growing at a rate of 1 per cent every 1 million years, and it is so big it is consuming a mass equivalent to the Sun every two days.

Artificial intelligence mimics human brain cells used for navigation — and takes shortcuts

A team from Google DeepMind and University College London in the United Kingdom have trained a form of artificial intelligence to traverse a virtual environment from one point to another.