[Jawlist] Weekly Science Report 6-5-20

Sun Jun 7 08:42:52 PDT 2020

*Weekly Science Report*

*June 5, 2020*

*“Time’s always moving on. Nothing can stop it. The question is whether we
use our time well or not. We can't do anything about the past, but what
happens in the future depends on what we do now. We can create a happier
future by remembering that in being human we are all the same.”*

Dalai Lama

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*

Oldest cousin of Native Americans found in Russia

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/05/oldest-cousin-native-americans-found-russia

When Did Homo Sapiens First Appear?

https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/when-did-homo-sapiens-first-appear

Rio Tinto blasts 46,000-year-old Aboriginal site to expand iron ore mine

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/may/26/rio-tinto-blasts-46000-year-old-aboriginal-site-to-expand-iron-ore-mine

The world's oldest temple was built along a grand geometric plan

https://www.livescience.com/amp/gobeklitepe-built-with-geometry.html?__twitter_impression=true

DNA evidence increases our understanding of contact between Stone Age
cultures
https://phys.org/news/2020-06-dna-evidence-contact-stone-age.html

A study proposes the low genetic diversity of the Neanderthals as the
principal cause of their extinction

https://phys.org/news/2020-06-genetic-diversity-neanderthals-principal-extinction.html

Researchers document the first use of maize in Mesoamerica

https://phys.org/news/2020-06-document-maize-mesoamerica.html

Neanderthals, Denisovans, humans genetically closer than polar bears, brown
bears

https://www.upi.com/Science_News/2020/06/03/Neanderthals-Denisovans-humans-genetically-closer-than-polar-bears-brown-bears/6821591204002/?sl=1&ur3=1

Did Neanderthals draw? This B.C. researcher is going to test DNA in old
cave art to find out

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/petzinger-genetic-testing-art-1.5586533?cmp=rss

Occupation of the last Neanderthal groups in the Cantabrian region

https://phys.org/news/2020-05-occupation-neanderthal-groups-cantabrian-region.html

Z Marks the Spot
https://www.archaeology.org/issues/380-2005/digs/8603-digs-kurdistan-neanderthal-burial

Ancient DNA provides new insights into the early peopling of the Caribbean
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-06/uoct-adp060420.php

The Continuously Evolving Picture of the World’s Largest Raptor

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/utahraptor-largest-raptor-180974954/

A Comet May Have Destroyed This Paleolithic Village 12,800 Years Ago

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/comet-upended-life-paleolithic-village-12800-years-ago-180974575/

*History*

Annie Glenn, widow of astronaut and U.S. Senator John Glenn, dies of
coronavirus complications at age 100

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/annie-glenn-died-widow-astronaut-senator-john-glenn-dead-age-100-cause-of-death-coronavirus/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab6a&linkId=88973500&fbclid=IwAR2tPBPmLasTBrH-ru_OQuk7VwncqGDM9lRKdQpRaW0IjZC-4oWDGMsGqq8

A boy chosen as the Panchen Lama disappeared in 1995. China says he's now a
college grad with a job

https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/20/asia/china-tibet-panchen-lama-dalai-lama-intl-hnk/index.html

‘A resting time for the art’: with museums shut, US conservators seize on
strategies to safeguard their collections

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/a-resting-time-for-the-art-with-museums-shuttered-us-conservators-seize-on-strategies-to-safeguard-their-collections

Larry Kramer, Pioneering AIDS Activist And Writer, Dies At 84

https://www.npr.org/2020/05/27/512714500/larry-kramer-pioneering-aids-activist-and-writer-dies-at-84?sc=18&f=1001

This newspaper has never forgotten the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre — and its
fight continues

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-05-22/one-newspaper-never-forgot-the-tulsa-race-massacre

Remains of 'Lady in the Well' in Turkey reveal Asia to Med migration began
4,000 years ago

https://www.dailysabah.com/life/history/remains-of-lady-in-the-well-in-turkey-reveal-asia-to-med-migration-began-4000-years-ago

Study explores how Native Americans used sea otters

https://phys.org/news/2020-06-explores-native-americans-sea-otters.html

Spain’s mysterious mummies
http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20200528-the-guanches-spains-mysterious-mummies

4,000 years of contact, conflict and cultural change had little genetic
impact in Near East
https://phys.org/news/2020-05-years-contact-conflict-cultural-genetic.html
  Jews
and Arabs Share Genetic Link to Ancient Canaanites, Study Finds

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-jews-and-arabs-share-genetic-link-to-ancient-canaanites-1.8871073

*Archaeology*

Holy Jewish site of Esther and Mordechai set ablaze in Iran - reports

https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/holy-jewish-site-of-esther-and-mordechai-set-ablaze-in-iran-reports-628165

Saving Chaco: As coronavirus consumes New Mexico, drilling threatens sacred
land

https://grist.org/justice/saving-chaco-as-coronavirus-consumes-new-mexico-drilling-threatens-sacred-land/?fbclid=IwAR2PytbtWLfBWgBRQYzDvMxeYYacW1EQgsbQruvZwUWLGfdU-9QP8pnxwA0

Endangered cultural heritage on the seafloor: Underwater archaeology in the
North and Baltic Seas

https://phys.org/news/2020-05-endangered-cultural-heritage-seafloor-underwater.html

Dig near Jerusalem's Western Wall yields 'puzzling' chambers

https://phys.org/news/2020-05-jerusalem-western-wall-yields-puzzling.html

Titanic salvage firm gets approval for controversial plan to cut into
wreck, retrieve telegraph machine

https://www.foxnews.com/science/titanic-salvage-approval-controversial-plan-retrieve-telegraph-machine

German warship wreck off Kent coast given heritage protection

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2020/jun/05/german-warship-wreck-off-kent-coast-given-heritage-protection

With St. Amand's matrix, town planners can ID at-risk archaeological sites

https://phys.org/news/2020-06-st-amand-matrix-town-planners.html

Evidence of rare Neolithic textiles discovered in Orkney
https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/uk/evidence-of-rare-neolithic-textiles-discovered-in-orkney-39253768.html

15 sites of prehistoric petroglyphs identified in northwest Iran

https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/448468/15-sites-of-prehistoric-petroglyphs-identified-in-northwest-Iran

8,000-year-old shell mound relic unearthed in east China

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2020-05/30/c_139101178.htm

New research reveals Cannabis and Frankincense at the Judahite Shrine of
Biblical Arad

https://phys.org/news/2020-05-reveals-cannabis-frankincense-judahite-shrine.html

INSIDE THE INCREDIBLE EFFORT TO RECREATE HISTORIC JEWISH SITES DESTROYED
YEARS AGO

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/diarna-jewish-sites-not-seen-generations-visit-from-home-180974875/

Aerial Survey Identifies Oldest, Largest Maya Structure Ever Found in Mexico
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/largest-and-oldest-maya-structure-found-mexico-lidar-180975037/

*Egyptology*

Nothing to report

*General Science*

Lightning fast algorithms can lighten the load of 3D hologram generation

*https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-06/tmu-lfa060220.php
<https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-06/tmu-lfa060220.php>*

*Physics, Earth and Space Sciences*

8.8 billion habitable Earth-size planets exist in Milky Way alone

https://www.nbcnews.com/sciencemain/8-8-billion-habitable-earth-size-planets-exist-milky-way-8C11529186

Colonizing Mars may require humanity to tweak its DNA

https://www.space.com/mars-colony-human-genetic-engineering-tardigrades.html

NASA human spaceflight chief Doug Loverro resigns on eve of historic SpaceX
launch

https://www.space.com/nasa-human-spaceflight-chief-doug-loverro-resigns.html

How do we protect planets from biological cross-contamination?

https://engineering.stanford.edu/magazine/article/how-do-we-protect-planets-biological-cross-contamination

NASA announces international Artemis Accords to standardize how to explore
the Moon

https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/15/21259946/nasa-artemis-accords-lunar-exploration-moon-outer-space-treaty

Ultra-bright X-ray source awakens near a galaxy not so far away

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-06/ras-uxs060320.php

Eclipse data illuminate mysteries of Sun's corona

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-06/uoha-edi060520.php

Chance of finding young Earth-like planets higher than previously thought

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-06/uos-cof060420.php

The Mariana Trench Is 7 Miles Deep: What’s Down There?

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-mariana-trench-is-7-miles-deep-whats-down-there/

*Environment, Climate Change and Alternative Energy Sources*

America Just Made a Huge Investment in Next-Gen Nuclear Power

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a32598099/advanced-nuclear-power-tiny-reactors/

Record ozone hole over Arctic in March now closed: U.N

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-environment-ozone/record-ozone-hole-over-arctic-in-march-now-closed-u-n-idUSKBN22D56N

Cop26 climate talks in Glasgow likely to be delayed by a year

https://amp.theguardian.com/environment/2020/may/26/cop26-climate-talks-in-glasgow-likely-to-be-delayed-again

Mangroves at risk if carbon emissions not reduced by 2050, international
scientists predict

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-06/ntu-mar060420.php

Thousands of tons of ocean pollution can be saved by changing washing habits

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-06/nu-tot060520.php

*Biological, Genetics and Medical Sciences*

China’s Farms Are Petri Dishes of Antibiotic Resistance

https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/05/21/china-farms-antibiotic-resistance-antimicrobial-amr/

Cancer cells cause inflammation to protect themselves from viruses

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-06/tfci-ccc060120.php

Terahertz radiation can disrupt proteins in living cells
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-06/r-trc060120.php   Plant
detectives develop new way to trace global spread of major plant disease
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-06/osu-pdd052920.php
*Other*

Nothing to report

Additional Informational

Help Preserve Underwater Tribal Heritage

https://heritagecoalition.org/help-preserve-underwater-tribal-heritage/?fbclid=IwAR1QQZ4Nn0Xl-yArQNk-fC-RKdaUeoruOPjFQvJvFyosiUal7xzg25sFtVs

Election 2020: What's at Stake for Historic Preservation Webinar, June 17

https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/3019899252500006672
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