and the Desert Research Institute, all in the U.S., has used radiocarbon dating of bone and other artifacts found at various sites across North America to learn more about Indigenous population ...

In this week's roundup of science news, Emily Kwong and Rachel Carlson talk about a newly discovered desert flower, tasting lemonade in virtual reality and prehistoric bone tools used by early humans.

SHAPIRO: Wow, so there might be a bone age in addition to a Stone Age ... The wooly devil is a new flower to science, found recently in the desert landscape of Big Bend National Park in Texas.