[Jawlist] Weekly Science Report 5-27-16

Sun May 29 15:28:53 PDT 2016

*Weekly Science Report*

*May 27, 2016*

*“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its
limits.”*

Albert Einstein

Introduction

Steve Detwiler created this publication with the support of Graham Hancock
and John Anthony West to share news and information on various disciplines
to include but not limited to paleontology, space sciences, genetics and
archaeology.  His goal behind sharing this publication has always been very
simple, by sharing knowledge we can make our world a better place.  This
publication is Mr. Detwiler’s contribution to bring people together and
share ideas and discoveries with his fellow humans.

I hope you enjoy this publication and that the content challenges and
inspires you!

Steve Detwiler

News Articles   *Paleontology, Evolution and Prehistoric Studies*

Scientists Want to Bring Back Woolly Mammoths — But Why?

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/scientists-want-bring-back-woolly-mammoths-why-n575581?cid=sm_fb

Complex Life May Have Emerged One Billion Years Earlier Than We Thought
<http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-36303051>

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/evolution/complex-life-may-have-emerged-one-billion-years-earlier-than-we-thought/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=pbsofficial&utm_campaign=nova_next

After 20,000 years, the world's oldest people face a crisis of culture

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/05/24/travel/basarwa-botswana-culture-crisis/index.html?sr=fbcnni052416basarwa-botswana-culture-crisis1139AMStoryGalLink&linkId=24813191

Scientists: Underground Stone Rings Made by Neanderthals

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/scientists-underground-stone-rings-made-neanderthals-39370484?yptr=yahoo

Ancient fossils, an Internet database and evolution: An idea hatched at the
Field Museum

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/plus/ct-field-museum-fossil-database-htmlstory.html

See the 14,500-Year-Old Cave Paintings Discovered in Spain

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/cave-paintings-discovered-in-spain-503939

Chicxulub 'dinosaur' crater drill project declared a success

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-36377679

Migration back to Africa took place during the Paleolithic

http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/spring-2016/article/migration-back-to-africa-took-place-during-the-paleolithic

High altitude archaeology: Prehistoric paintings revealed

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-05/uoy-haa052516.php

Skeletal differences between Neanderthal and modern human infants

http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/spring-2016/article/skeletal-differences-between-neanderthal-and-modern-human-infants

*History*

*How the Irish lost their words*

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20160502-how-the-irish-lost-their-words

Pope and top imam embrace in historic Vatican meeting

https://www.yahoo.com/news/pope-top-imam-embrace-historic-meeting-vatican-114906546.html?nhp=1

Louvre and Cairo museum strike antiquities co-operation deal

http://theartnewspaper.com/news/museums/louvre-and-cairo-museum-strike-antiquities-co-operation-deal/

Text in lost language may reveal god or goddess worshipped by Etruscans at
ancient temple

http://phys.org/news/2016-03-text-lost-language-reveal-god.html

First DNA from ancient Phoenician shows Europe ancestry

https://www.yahoo.com/news/first-dna-ancient-phoenician-shows-europe-ancestry-222951219.html

Obama's hug of Hiroshima survivor epitomizes historic visit

http://bigstory.ap.org/5c59111e89c444c0b2f239cab084df54

North Dakota Mosque a Symbol of Muslims’ Long Ties in America

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/28/us/north-dakota-mosque-a-symbol-of-muslims-deep-ties-in-america.html?_r=0

Women in southern Germany Corded Ware culture may have been highly mobile

http://www.heritagedaily.com/2016/05/women-in-southern-germany-corded-ware-culture-may-have-been-highly-mobile/111422

Bad weather may explain Mongols sudden retreat from Hungary in 1242

http://phys.org/news/2016-05-bad-weather-mongols-sudden-retreat.html

Archival exhibition shows historical ties between Georgia and Lithuania

http://agenda.ge/news/58248/eng

Preserving Ireland's Ancient, Mysterious Tree-Based Alphabet

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/preserving-irelands-ancient-mysterious-treebased-alphabet

China's Forbidden City Will Open Doors to Secret Garden for the First Time
in Nearly a Century

http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/secret-garden-forbidden-city

Anne Frank, family's attempt to come to U.S. revealed in "No Asylum"
documentary

http://www.lasvegasnow.com/news/ann-franks-attempt-to-come-to-us-revealed-in-no-asylum-documentary

Leonardo da Vinci paintings analysed for DNA to solve grave mystery

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016/05/05/leonardo-da-vinci-paintings-analysed-for-dna-to-solve-grave-myst/

*Archaeology*

'King Arthur' chapel near Glastonbury uncovered

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-somerset-36344363

Stonehenge wasn't so hard to build after all, archaeologists discover

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/stonehenge-wasnt-so-hard-to-build-after-all-archaeologists-discover/ar-BBtnEP4

Underground city comes to surface

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/underground-city-comes-to-surface.aspx?pageID=238&nID=95221&NewsCatID=375&utm_content=bufferef708&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkedin.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Angkor's forests give up their secrets to technology

http://asia.nikkei.com/Life-Arts/Arts/Angkor-s-forests-give-up-their-secrets-to-technology

Archaeology must open up to become more diverse

https://www.theguardian.com/culture-professionals-network/2016/may/23/archaeology-must-open-up-become-more-diverse

Goa: Dholavira site has first evidence of tsunami-protection wall in the
world, say scientists

http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/goa-dholavira-site-has-first-evidence-of-tsunami-protection-wall-in-the-world-say-scientists/

Israel Antiquities Authority Plan To Excavate Judean Desert Caves To Save
Scrolls Being Robbed
http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/headlines-breaking-stories/421618/Israel-Antiquities-Authority-Plan-To-Excavate-Judean-Desert-Caves-To-Save-Scrolls-Being-Robbed.html?platform=hootsuite#sthash.hbIRRYwJ.dpuf

Newly discovered mass graves could be filled with an ancient Greek tyrant’s
followers

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/04/15/newly-discovered-mass-graves-could-be-filled-with-an-ancient-greek-tyrants-followers/?utm_content=buffer83aef&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkedin.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Aristotle’s 2,400-Year-Old Tomb Found at Stagira

http://greece.greekreporter.com/2016/05/26/aristotles-2400-year-old-tomb-found-at-stagira-photographs/

Amateur Divers Find Huge Cache of Bronze Artifacts in Israel National Park
http://ht.ly/5WtR300sd3M

While the world watches Palmyra, another of Syria’s heritage sites risks
destruction

https://www.apollo-magazine.com/while-the-world-watches-palmyra-another-of-syrias-heritage-sites-risks-destruction-st-simeon/?platform=hootsuite

Director-General of UNESCO deplores severe damage at Church of Saint
Simeon, in northern Syria

http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/1499?platform=hootsuite

Quake-damaged Kumamoto Castle to take decades to restore

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/05/20/national/quake-damaged-kumamoto-castle-take-decades-restore/#.V0tlcuTD_an

France helps Syrian archaeologists fill in the cracks

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/world/france-helps-syrian-archa/2817102.html#.V0cOPHfwR-M.twitter

Will Anyone Give Rome $550 Million for Historic Preservation?

http://ht.ly/1RCx300FSHD

Civil War battlefield looted, described as 'crime scene'

http://ht.ly/vgxw300GlkW

Martin Roth: Technology can help us save the treasures some seek to destroy

http://www.standard.co.uk/comment/comment/martin-roth-technology-can-help-us-save-the-treasures-some-seek-to-destroy-a3258341.html

*Egyptology*

People Aren't Coming To See The Pyramids Or Snorkel In The Red Sea

http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2016/05/23/479161145/people-arent-coming-to-see-the-pyramids-or-snorkel-in-the-red-sea?sc=tw

3,800-Year-Old Mummy Unearthed from Necropolis in Southeastern Egypt

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/3800-year-old-mummy-unearthed-necropolis-southeastern-egypt-505298

Israel returns ancient sarcophagus covers to Egypt

http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/22/travel/egyptian-sarcophagus-returned/index.html

*General Science*

Faster Than a Speeding Bullet: A First Look at America's Supergun

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/faster-than-a-speeding-bullet-a-first-look-at-americas-supergun/ar-BBtyPuZ?li=BBnb7Kz

*Physics, Earth and Space Sciences*

A man-made meteor shower launched by satellite could open the 2020 Olympic
Games in Tokyo

http://qz.com/689794/a-man-made-meteor-shower-launched-by-satellite-could-open-the-2020-olympic-games-in-tokyo/

*New evidence could overthrow the standard view of Quantum Mechanics*

http://www.wired.com/2016/05/new-support-alternative-quantum-view/?mbid=nl_52316

Space experts say sending humans to Mars worth the risk

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/space-experts-say-sending-humans-mars-worth-risk

Loop quantum gravity theory offers glimpse beyond the event horizon

http://phys.org/news/2016-05-loop-quantum-gravity-theory-glimpse.html

Has a Hungarian physics lab found a fifth force of nature?

http://www.nature.com/news/has-a-hungarian-physics-lab-found-a-fifth-force-of-nature-1.19957?WT.mc_id=TWT_NatureNews

Combined climate, orbit models show that Kepler-62f could sustain life

http://phys.org/news/2016-05-combined-climate-orbit-kepler-62f-sustain.html

The Humans to Mars Summit 2016 an Unqualified Success!

http://us7.campaign-archive2.com/?u=db83c35bebf68040dcf49943b&id=f6d0be756b&e=1310e0e934

Lockheed Martin unveils manned space station that could reach Mars by 2028

http://www.blastr.com/2016-5-18/lockheed-martin-unveils-manned-space-station-could-reach-mars-2028

NASA's Juno Spacecraft Crosses Jupiter/Sun Gravitational Boundary

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=6520

Mars is recovering from an ice age more than 400,000 years ago

http://www.blastr.com/2016-5-27/mars-recovering-ice-age-more-400000-years-ago

*Environment, Climate Change and Alternative Energy Sources*

*A Huge Solar Plant caught fire, and that’s the least of its problems*

http://www.wired.com/2016/05/huge-solar-plant-caught-fire-thats-least-problems/?mbid=nl_52316

A Warming World Means Less Water, With Economic Consequences

http://www.npr.org/2016/05/22/479084475/a-warming-world-means-less-water-with-economic-consequences?sc=17&f=1001

Fatal Firefight in Congo Park Highlights Threats to Rangers

http://www.voanews.com/content/fatal-firefight-in-congo-park-highlights-threats-to-rangers/3343975.html

The assassinations of Mother Nature’s guardians

https://news.mongabay.com/2016/05/assassinations-mother-natures-guardians-commentary/

Rising Seas Push Too Much Salt Into The Florida Everglades

http://wlrn.org/post/rising-seas-push-too-much-salt-florida-everglades

This Beautifully Illustrated Book Shows Kids A Sustainable Urban Future

http://www.fastcoexist.com/3060185/a-beautiful-illustrated-book-shows-kids-a-sustainable-urban-future/

Scientifically Engineered Coral Could Survive Climate Change Devastation
http://www.newsweek.com/super-coral-reefs-climate-change-462172
*Biological, Genetics and Medical Sciences*

Inventing A Machine That Spits Out Drugs In A Whole New Way

http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/05/23/478576727/inventing-a-machine-that-spits-out-pills-a-whole-new-way?sc=tw

U.S. scientists have been quietly working in Hiroshima for decades

http://www.latimes.com/world/asia/la-fg-hiroshima-researchers-20160519-snap-story.html

Next-gen prosthetics- Video

http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/

Researchers find invasive, 'man-eating' crocodiles in Florida

http://www.theverge.com/2016/5/22/11735586/nile-crocodiles-florida-predator-study

*Other*

JJ Abrams: Paramount To End Lawsuit Against ‘Star Trek’ Fan Film

http://deadline.com/2016/05/star-trek-axanar-lawsuit-ending-jj-abrams-paramount-1201760721/

A UFO? Video captures strange object near Ohio military base

http://www.foxnews.com/science/2016/05/29/ufo-video-captures-strange-object-near-ohio-military-base.html

Additional Informational

Carl Sagan: We Humans Are Capable Of Greatness- Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6ugFcwsgpE

*Star Trek Axanar: *http://www.startrekaxanar.com/

Axanar is a ground breaking independent film that proves the idea that a
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Star Trek to look and feel like a true Star Trek movie.

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