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^^Two billion years... Not really worried haha I'm particularly interested in the experiment to test how much the Moon’s extremely low gravity affects the growth of living organism that is about to be carried out. The Chang'e-4 lander is also carrying a biosphere housing potatoes, Arabidopsis plant seeds, and silkworm eggs. The container constitutes its own complete ecosystem, with the potato and Arabidopsis breathing out oxygen after taking in the carbon dioxide exhaled by the silkworms. Just imagine if they get through one reproductive cycle while on the Moon, it would be the first example of complex life known to be born on another world!

Cosmic collision billions of years off could fling Earth out of Milky Way Eric Mack 11 hrs ago Day to day here on Earth, our biggest threat from space is probably some undetected asteroid smashing into us, but astrophysicists looking at the universe on a much larger scale warn that another kind of collision could also impact our planet in the distant future. A team led by researchers from the UK's Durham University says the threat of another galaxy colliding with the Milky Way could happen much sooner than previously thought and might send our entire solar system hurtling off in a new direction. "There is a small chance that we might not escape unscathed from the collision between the two galaxies which could knock us out of the Milky Way and into interstellar space," Marius Cautun, a postdoctoral fellow at Durham's Institute for Computational Cosmology, said in a statement. Cautun is lead author of a paper being published Friday in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. © CNET

Ah ok I misread that; so they found the DNA of Woolly Mammoth in the trinkets already being sold in the country, not in that shipment from Africa

Good new documentary by Deutsche Welle detailing the research going on in ISS, the obstacles and the future of humanity in space.

Edinburgh scientists discover a mammoth secret in ivory DNA By Kenneth Macdonald & Marc Ellison BBC Scotland Scientists based at Edinburgh Zoo are cooperating to create a genetics laboratory in Cambodia to fight the illegal ivory trade. While trying to save elephants, they have found ivory from another animal that is now extinct. In the WildGenes laboratory of the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland, Dr. Alex Ball is drilling what sounds like a giant tooth. Which is in effect what it is: an ornately carved elephant tusk. The lab is working with three partners in a project funded by the UK government's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. Together they are building Cambodia's scientific capacity to preserve its wildlife and combat the ivory trade which passes through it.

I don’t recall mentioning names.