[Jawlist] Weekly Science Report 6-1-18

Sun Jun 3 18:11:03 PDT 2018

*Weekly Science Report*

*June 1, 2018*

*“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”*
Eleanor Roosevelt

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!

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News Articles   *Paleontology, Evolution and Prehistoric Studies*

240-million-year-old 'mother of all lizards' found

http://www.msn.com/en-us/video/wonder/240-million-year-old-mother-of-all-lizards-discovered/vi-AAy4yI4?ocid=LENOVODHP17

Sweeping gene survey reveals new facets of evolution

https://phys.org/news/2018-05-gene-survey-reveals-facets-evolution.html

Wars and clan structure may explain a strange biological event 7,000 years
ago

https://phys.org/news/2018-05-wars-clan-strange-biological-event.html

The Increasingly Intricate Story of How the Americas Were Peopled

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/05/the-increasingly-intricate-story-of-how-the-americas-were-peopled/561638/

Iceland’s founding fathers underwent a rapid, 1000-year genetic shift

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/05/iceland-s-founding-fathers-underwent-rapid-1000-year-genetic-shift

Genes found only in humans influence brain size

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-05/uoc--gfo052418.php

*History*

A World War II Mystery Is Solved, and Emotions Flood In

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/a-world-war-ii-mystery-is-solved-and-emotions-flood-in/ar-AAxUQ9C?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=LENOVODHP17

Kitty Marion: The actress who became a 'terrorist'

http://www.bbc.com/news/stories-44210012

Peruvian scientists use DNA to trace origins of Inca emperors

https://phys.org/news/2018-05-peruvian-scientists-dna-inca-emperors.html

USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor closed indefinitely

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/uss-arizona-memorial-at-pearl-harbor-closed-indefinitely/ar-AAxQg7p?ocid=se

Who killed Bobby Kennedy? His son RFK Jr. doesn’t believe it was Sirhan
Sirhan.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/who-killed-bobby-kennedy-his-son-rfk-jr-doesn%e2%80%99t-believe-it-was-sirhan-sirhan/ar-AAxPsCH?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=LENOVODHP17

The search for the Lost Colony of Roanoke

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2018/06/lost-colony-roanoke-history-theories-croatoan/?beta=true&utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Social&utm_content=link_fb20180529ngm-roanokecolony&utm_campaign=Content&sf190575954=1

Life Below The Rim Of The Grand Canyon At Phantom Ranch

https://www.npr.org/2018/05/27/614506521/life-below-the-rim-of-the-grand-canyon-at-phantom-ranch?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20180527

Bloody but forgotten WWII battle still haunts soldiers

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/bloody-but-forgotten-wwii-battle-still-haunts-soldiers/ar-AAxSBsF?ocid=ob-fb-enus-580

The Conflicting Educations of Sam Schimmel

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/05/30/610384132/the-conflicting-educations-of-sam-schimmel

One More To Go: Illinois Ratifies Equal Rights Amendment

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/05/31/615832255/one-more-to-go-illinois-ratifies-equal-rights-amendment?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20180531

Human Ashes Left At The Vietnam Memorial Find A Not-Final Resting Place

https://www.npr.org/2018/05/28/612980545/human-ashes-left-at-the-vietnam-memorial-find-a-not-final-resting-place?sc=tw

The Busboy Who Cradled A Dying RFK Recalls Those Final Moments

https://www.npr.org/2018/06/01/615534723/the-busboy-who-cradled-a-dying-rfk-recalls-those-final-moments?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20180601

Britain tried to kill Kaiser Wilhelm II in 1918 with secret RAF bombing
raid, reveals archives

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/first-world-war-kaiser-wilhelm-uk-raf-bombing-kill-germany-emperor-boulogne-a8375996.html

Lost City of Irisagrig Comes to Life in Ancient Stolen Tablets

https://www.livescience.com/62688-lost-city-of-irisagrig-ancient-tablets.html

How Native Civilizations Innovated to Conquer the Wilderness

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/how-native-civilizations-innovated-conquer-wilderness-180969197/

*Archaeology*

California man accused of smuggling Byzantine-era mosaic out of Syria

https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/27/world/byzantine-mosaic-smuggled-syria/index.html?utm_source=fbCNNi&utm_content=2018-05-28T00%3A30%3A15&utm_term=link&utm_medium=social

Executive pays $7M to return relic to Hawaii

http://www.staradvertiser.com/2018/05/29/hawaii-news/executive-pays-7m-to-return-relic-to-hawaii/?HSA=aee762a79bbc73f943d9a95f7737b7e914e55553

Is This Inscribed Stone a Notorious Forgery—or the Answer to America’s
Oldest Mystery?

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/is-this-inscribed-stone-a-notorious-forgery%e2%80%94or-the-answer-to-america%e2%80%99s-oldest-mystery/ar-AAy0zno?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=SL5FDHP

Provincial archeologists rely on tips from public to save artifacts

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/archaeologist-services-reliant-tips-1.4682292

What Ever Happened to the 'Mission Impossible' Rare-Book Thieves? We
Investigated.

https://www.livescience.com/62681-mission-impossible-rare-book-thieves.html

Archaeologists discover new geoglyphs near Nazca Lines in Peru

https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-peru-archaeology/archaeologists-discover-new-geoglyphs-near-nazca-lines-in-peru-idUKKCN1IT1TG

*Egyptology*

Egyptologist Kara Cooney Melds Scholarship and Popular History

http://www.laweekly.com/news/kara-cooney-the-egyptologist-melding-scholarship-and-popular-history-9487403

This 'Hawk Mummy' Was Actually Human

https://www.livescience.com/62705-hawk-mummy-was-human.html

*General Science*

Engineers Don't Totally Dig Elon Musk's Tunneling Promises

*https://www.wired.com/story/engineers-dont-totally-dig-musk-tunneling/?CNDID=41291302&mbid=nl_052218_daily_list1_p2
<https://www.wired.com/story/engineers-dont-totally-dig-musk-tunneling/?CNDID=41291302&mbid=nl_052218_daily_list1_p2>*

Meet Smithsonian’s New Robot Guides

*https://wamu.org/story/18/05/07/officially-future-meet-smithsonians-new-robot-guides/#.WxSGt0mG_IU
<https://wamu.org/story/18/05/07/officially-future-meet-smithsonians-new-robot-guides/#.WxSGt0mG_IU>*

Seven Airplane Innovations That Could Change How We Travel
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/seven-airplane-innovations-that-could-change-how-we-travel-180969166/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=socialmedia

*Physics, Earth and Space Sciences*

A New World’s Extraordinary Orbit Points to Planet Nine

https://www.wired.com/story/a-new-worlds-extraordinary-orbit-points-to-planet-nine/?CNDID=41291302&mbid=nl_052118_daily_list1_p3

Alan Bean, Apollo 12 Astronaut Who Walked On The Moon, Dies At 86

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/05/26/514228407/alan-bean-apollo-astronaut-who-walked-on-the-moon-has-died-at-86?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20180526

Watch SpaceX Launch NASA's Next Earth-Observing Satellites

https://www.wired.com/story/watch-spacex-launch-nasas-next-earth-observing-satellites/?CNDID=41291302&mbid=nl_052718_daily_list1_p1

Why Darpa Wants Everyone to Launch Tiny Satellites

https://www.wired.com/story/darpas-little-launch-challenge/?CNDID=41291302&mbid=nl_053018_daily_list3_p4

Virgin Galactic steps closer to Richard Branson's dream of routine human
spaceflight with second rocket launch

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/29/virgin-galactic-lands-second-unity-spacecraft-rocket-flight.html

Methane ice dunes found on Pluto by Nasa spacecraft

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-44317367

Scientists reveal the secrets behind Pluto's dunes

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-05/uop-srt052518.php

Team discover how microbes survive clean rooms and contaminate spacecraft

https://phys.org/news/2018-06-team-microbes-survive-rooms-contaminate.html

NASA CubeSats steer toward Mars

https://phys.org/news/2018-06-nasa-cubesats-mars.html

Quantum Physics May Be Even Spookier Than You Think

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/quantum-physics-may-be-even-spookier-than-you-think/

*Environment, Climate Change and Alternative Energy Sources*

Batteries Still Suck, But Researchers Are Working on It
https://www.wired.com/story/building-a-better-battery/?CNDID=41291302&mbid=nl_052218_daily_list1_p3

Climate change may lead to bigger atmospheric rivers

https://phys.org/news/2018-05-climate-bigger-atmospheric-rivers.html

Court: more study needed on Yellowstone-area gold mining

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/25/the-associated-press-court-more-study-needed-on-yellowstone-area-gold-mining.html

Hilton Commits to Cutting Environmental Footprint in Half and Doubling
Social Impact Investment

http://newsroom.hilton.com/index.cfm/news/hilton-commits-to-cutting-environmental-footprint-in-half-and-doubling-social-impact-investment

Polymer researchers discover path to sustainable and biodegradable
polyesters

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-06/vt-prd060118.php

Atomically thin nanowires convert heat to electricity more efficiently

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-06/uow-atn060118.php

Prototype nuclear battery packs 10 times more power

https://phys.org/news/2018-06-prototype-nuclear-battery-power.html

First of its kind CO2-free natural gas burning power plant undergoes first
fire

https://techxplore.com/news/2018-06-kind-co2-free-natural-gas-power.html

Mystery of Earth's Missing Nitrogen Solved

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mystery-of-earths-missing-nitrogen-solved/

Margaret Atwood: 'If the ocean dies, so do we'

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-44338877

*Biological, Genetics and Medical Sciences*   A New Look Inside Theranos’
Dysfunctional Corporate Culture
https://www.wired.com/story/a-new-look-inside-theranos-dysfunctional-corporate-culture/?CNDID=41291302&mbid=nl_052218_daily_list1_p4

Ingestible Sensors Electronically Monitor Your Guts

https://www.wired.com/story/this-digital-pill-prototype-uses-bacteria-to-sense-stomach-bleeding/?CNDID=41291302&mbid=nl_052618_daily_list3_p2

Novel RNA-modifying tool corrects genetic diseases, including driver of
triple-negative breast cancer
https://phys.org/news/2018-05-rna-modifying-tool-genetic-diseases-driver.html

Ocean-migrating trout adapt to freshwater environment in 120 years

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-05/pu-ot053118.php

Dolphin 'happiness' measured by scientists in France

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-44273624

*Other*

Military Report: UFOs May Have Attempted Rendezvous with Giant Undersea
Object

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ufo-undersea-object_us_5b0cfd34e4b0fdb2aa5637d3?utm_source=main_fb&ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000063&utm_campaign=hp_fb_pages&utm_medium=facebook

Additional Informational

Help the Nikola Tesla’s Wardenclyffe site be considered for the National
Register of Historic Places

https://skypoint.cc/tesla/

The Museum of Lost Art

https://www.amazon.com/Museum-Lost-Art-Noah-Charney/dp/0714875848/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1527601868&sr=8-1&keywords=Noah+Charney&dpID=51JMVtVIz7L&preST=_SY291_BO1,204,203,200_QL40_&dpSrc=srch

Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project

https://erpapers.columbian.gwu.edu/

Crime In The Great Pyramid: The Evidence Mounts

https://grahamhancock.com/creightons10/
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