[Jawlist] Weekly Science Report 3-1-19

Sun Mar 3 12:08:32 PST 2019

The Weekly Science Report will resume publication on March 15th.

Below is this week's edition,

Steve Detwiler

*Weekly Science Report*

*March 1, 2019*

*"What is done cannot be undone, but one can prevent it happening again."*

Anne Frank

Introduction

Steve Detwiler created this publication with the support of Graham Hancock
and the late 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!

The Weekly Science Report is also on social media at:

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News Articles   *Paleontology, Evolution and Prehistoric Studies*

Siberia’s ancient ghost clan starts to surrender its secrets

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00672-2

'Mama's Last Hug' Makes Case That Humans Are Not Alone In Experiencing
Emotions

https://www.npr.org/2019/03/01/698902400/mamas-last-hug-makes-case-that-humans-are-not-alone-in-experiencing-emotions?sc=tw

Scientists discover how surfaces may have helped early life on Earth begin

https://phys.org/news/2019-03-scientists-surfaces-early-life-earth.html

Susceptibility to Mental Illness May Have Helped Humans Adapt over the
Millennia

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/susceptibility-to-mental-illness-may-have-helped-humans-adapt-over-the-millennia/

*History*

New clues to the lost tomb of Alexander the Great discovered in Egypt

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/new-clues-to-the-lost-tomb-of-alexander-the-great-discovered-in-egypt/ar-BBUbBp9?ocid=se

How I beat the Nazis: 100-year-old tells her story

https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/true-stories/how-i-beat-the-nazis-100yearold-tells-her-story/news-story/f0440c119f31b7a2007ba4e918312f0d

Refugees Connect Their Personal Stories with a Museum’s Ancient Artifacts

https://hyperallergic.com/484835/global-guides-program-penn-museum/

Holocaust Museum Houston Seeks Artifact Donations To Expand Its Collection

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/2019/02/22/322903/holocaust-museum-houston-seeks-artifact-donations-to-expand-its-collection/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=cpc&utm_content=fb-1-1-20190222-322903-ca&utm_campaign=news-local

Do you speak Ladino? Meet the folks trying to save a dying language

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/do-you-speak-ladino-meet-folks-trying-save-dying-language-n974056?cid=sm_npd_nn_fb_ma

‘Say Nothing’ Unearths Buried Secrets in Northern Ireland

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/20/books/review-say-nothing-murder-northern-ireland-patrick-radden-keefe.html

Met Museum to Return Prize Artifact Because It Was Stolen

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/15/arts/design/met-museum-stolen-coffin.html?platform=hootsuite

Around 2,000 Artifacts Have Been Saved From the Ruins of Brazil’s National
Museum Fire

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/around-2000-artifacts-have-been-saved-ruins-brazils-national-museum-fire-180971510/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=socialmedia

While seizing thousands of artifacts from an Indiana home, FBI makes
"staggering" discovery

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fbi-speaks-out-on-seizing-artifacts-from-indiana-home-staggering-discovery-of-human-bones/?ftag=COS-05-10aaa0g&utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&utm_content=5c760f7d4b73850001dc13b4&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter

To Counter Anti-Semitism, French Women Find Strength In Diversity At
Auschwitz

https://www.npr.org/2019/02/28/697805787/to-counter-anti-semitism-french-women-find-strength-in-diversity-at-auschwitz?sc=tw

Silver and the Phoenician expansion

https://popular-archaeology.com/article/silver-and-the-phoenician-expansion/

Ancient Angkor’s mysterious decline may have been slow, not sudden

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ancient-angkor-mysterious-decline-slow-not-sudden

Mount Vesuvius Didn't Kill Everyone in Pompeii. Where Did the Survivors Go?

https://www.livescience.com/64854-where-pompeii-refugees-fled.html

*Archaeology*

How climate change is revealing, and threatening, thawing relics

https://edition-m.cnn.com/2019/02/26/world/climate-change-threatens-archaeology-intl/index.html?r=https%3A%2F%2Fedition.cnn.com%2F&fbclid=IwAR0pCXKa79X7ZzSsElFVPSKDhAO38K7jC4KeV6GCsP1duvJFFVzRxhKO3Gk

Vandals Steal Head Of 800-Year-Old Mummy In Ireland

https://www.npr.org/2019/02/26/698097024/vandals-steal-head-of-800-year-old-mummy-in-ireland?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20190226&fbclid=IwAR0Ox_6pIPmuh6vJuyZgy7aGqdBmCmcBQhBKcGJsnK9enOZd531BDNr_PZw

Non-destructive archaeology finds military fort beneath Alcatraz prison

https://www.theengineer.co.uk/alcatraz-non-destructive-archaeology/?fbclid=IwAR2HczU4MnKE47jCy8vhnqnjoNhLbC1n0nimVWkvjSB-tA_2awHms8f1F4Y#.XHfWRL_Y720.facebook

Remains of hundreds of Jews unearthed in Nazi-era mass grave in Belarus

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-belarus-massgrave-idUSKCN1QF24U?utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&utm_content=5c760a274b73850001dc1315&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter

18 Skeletons, 3 Buttons and a Revolutionary War Mystery

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/26/nyregion/lake-george-bones-found.html

Archaeological evidence shows Minoans used violence and were prepared for
war

https://www.tornosnews.gr/en/greek-news/culture/34666-archaeological-evidence-shows-minoans-used-violence-and-prepared-for-war.html

2,000-year-old tattoo needle identified by archaeologists
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/2019/02/ancient-tattoo-needle-southwest-archaeology/
  Northwest Coast clam gardens nearly 2,000 years older than previously
thought -- study
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-02/sfu-ncc022719.php
*Egyptology*

Stolen Mummy Feet, Arms and More Found Stashed in Speakers at Cairo Airport

https://www.livescience.com/64851-mummy-parts-recovered-airport.html

*General Science*

Spider silk could be used as robotic muscle

*https://phys.org/news/2019-03-spider-silk-robotic-muscle.html
<https://phys.org/news/2019-03-spider-silk-robotic-muscle.html>*

*Physics, Earth and Space Sciences*

Israel Launches Spacecraft To The Moon

https://www.npr.org/2019/02/21/696694642/israel-set-to-launch-spacecraft-to-the-moon?sc=tw

Trump orders creation of Space Force, but within Air Force

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/world/trump-orders-creation-of-space-force-but-within-air-force

Apollo 11 review – eye-opening documentary is a five-star triumph

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/feb/25/apollo-11-review-eye-opening-documentary-is-a-five-star-triumph?CMP=share_btn_fb&fbclid=IwAR0Yj67bOg9ThHgVZ9yi8kei_C2k0DrC6o8-JvTl2xyBOrKsyJI38yMtGU0

'FarFarOut' is now the most distant solar system object ever seen

https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/farfarout-now-most-distant-solar-system-object-ever-seen-ncna977066?cid=sm_npd_nn_fb_ma

Five Teams Win NASA DALI Awards to Advance Future Lunar Missions

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/five-teams-win-nasa-dali-awards-to-advance-future-lunar-missions

Chris Hadfield: Astronaut Life Is Much More Than a Spacewalk

https://www.wired.com/story/chris-hadfield-astronaut-life-is-much-more-than-a-spacewalk/?CNDID=41291302&CNDID=41291302&bxid=MjM5NjgxMjIxODk5S0&hasha=3ed15b3d4270f52ce4da5de4e5031836&hashb=9085a9ae56cc45a4e9bae24e2eaeaade6e04a43e&mbid=nl_022719_daily_list3_p5&source=DAILY_NEWSLETTER&utm_brand=wired&utm_mailing=WIRED%20NL%20022719%20(1)&utm_medium=email&utm_source=nl

Chinese scientists envision solar power station in space: report

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-02/27/c_137853992.htm

Using stardust grains, ASU scientists build new model for nova eruptions

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-02/asu-usg022819.php

Pluto and Charon's ancient scars reveal a dearth of small Kuiper Belt
objects

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-02/aaft-pac022519.php

America's newest crew capsule rockets toward space station

https://phys.org/news/2019-03-america-crew-capsule-rockets-space.html

Hiding black hole found

https://phys.org/news/2019-03-black-hole.html

First evidence of planet-wide groundwater system on Mars

https://phys.org/news/2019-03-evidence-planet-wide-groundwater-mars.html

Fabiola Gianotti: ‘There is nothing more rewarding than discovering a new
particle’

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/feb/23/fabiola-gianotti-interview-director-general-cern-particle-physicist-large-hadron-collider

*Environment, Climate Change and Alternative Energy Sources*

Fish stocks continuing to fall as oceans warm, study finds

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/feb/28/fish-stocks-continuing-to-fall-as-oceans-warm-study-finds

New research from Arctic: Thawing permafrost peatlands may add to
atmospheric CO2 burden

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-03/uoef-nrf030119.php

More humans always mean fewer African carnivores, right? Nope

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-03/msu-mha030119.php

Tree rings tell climate stories that technology can't

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-03/hu-trt030119.php

Catastrophic outlook for African savannahs due to rise in CO2 levels

https://phys.org/news/2019-03-catastrophic-outlook-african-savannahs-due.html

Atmospheric scientists offer climate change clues in new studies

https://phys.org/news/2019-03-atmospheric-scientists-climate-clues.html

Made From Microalgae, These Mardi Gras Beads Are Biodegradable
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/made-from-microalgae-these-mardi-gras-beads-are-biodegradable-180971578/

*Biological, Genetics and Medical Sciences*

World's Largest Bee Is Spotted For First Time In Decades

https://www.npr.org/2019/02/21/696626918/worlds-largest-bee-is-spotted-for-first-time-in-decades?sc=tw

Heart attack patients taken directly to heart centers have better long-term
survival

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-03/esoc-hap022619.php

4 New DNA Letters Double Life's Alphabet

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/4-new-dna-letters-double-lifes-alphabet/

*Other*

Are we on the road to civilization collapse?

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190218-are-we-on-the-road-to-civilisation-collapse?ocid=ww.social.link.facebook

Who You See Before You Die: Hospice Documenting Patients’ Mysterious
Dream Experiences

https://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2019/02/25/hospice-buffalo-death-dreams-study/?fbclid=IwAR3Pt8bM2YcwZ2nMHE798pudpRsLeck0J5eQKbtGrUO59h6wPovVYEj5ng8

There’s a talking gargoyle that is surprising visitors at DIA

https://kdvr.com/2019/02/28/theres-a-talking-gargoyle-that-is-surprising-visitors-at-dia/

The Decline of Historical Thinking

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-decline-of-historical-thinking/amp?__twitter_impression=true

Additional Informational

Protecting America’s Collections:  Results from the Heritage Health
Information Survey

https://www.imls.gov/sites/default/files/publications/documents/imls-hhis-report.pdf

The Oldest True Stories in the World

https://www.sapiens.org/language/oral-tradition/

Photos: The Ram-Headed Sphinx of Gebel el-Silsila

https://www.livescience.com/64869-photos-ram-headed-sphinx.html
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