Beaked hazelnuts are a wild food native to North America. Indigenous peoples in British Columbia have passed down stories of these hazelnuts as a vital food source their ancestors planted and cultivated. These stories motivated Chelsea Geralda Armstrong of Simon Fraser University to look more deeply at the genetics of the beaked hazelnut and determine just how widely it was cultivated. Indigenous rights attorney Jack Woodward hopes research like this can make a difference in the Land Back movement, providing evidence that land once considered wilderness by European settler colonists was actually being carefully managed by tribes.Another science story in the news catch your eye? Let us know by emailing [email protected] — we'd love to hear from you!Listen to every episode of Short Wave sponsor-free and support our work at NPR by signing up for Short Wave+ at plus.npr.org/shortwave.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
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You're listening to Shortwave from NPR. Hey Shortwavers, Emily Kwong here. And Jessica Young. With our bi-weekly Science News Roundup Thanksgiving edition. Featuring the hosts of All Things Considered, today we have Ari Shapiro.
It's so honored to be here.
Oh, thanks for stopping by. So combing through all the headlines, all of the embargo journals, we found some pretty interesting stuff.
Yes. Today we have a Thanksgiving buffet for you of one. Genetics. That's proving indigenous hazelnut cultivation in Canada.
How an ancient piece of meteorite from Mars points to a possibly habitable past.
And a very large fish mysteriously washing up on the coast of California.
We've got hazelnuts. We've got fish. It sounds like a Thanksgiving feast.
Delicious. All that on this episode of Shortwave, the science podcast from NPR.
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