[Jawlist] Weekly Science Report 12-3-21

Sat Dec 4 06:16:41 PST 2021

*Weekly Science Report*

*December 3, 2021*

*“To say you have no choice is a failure of imagination.”*

Jean Luc Picard

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!

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News Articles   *Paleontology, Evolution and Prehistoric Studies*

Giant moa find suggests moa were native to Rakiura

https://phys.org/news/2021-11-giant-moa-native-rakiura.html?fbclid=IwAR3QWR0OLy5P0xJ9jOP65ZfuoTODaVUKo7NspwQbgaTbyxpa48QMePU1Yic

10,800 Years Ago, Early Humans Planted Forest Islands in Amazonia's
Grasslands

https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/10-800-years-ago-early-humans-planted-forest-islands-in-amazonias-grasslands?utm_source=dscfb&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dscfb&fbclid=IwAR0NWM00tWAsFf1uXttl7dxj8Uz63IU_RshYDObhCQ6MFHT-PuMHbgwtHGo

Ancient Mammoth Tusk discovered 10,000 feet deep in ocean off California
coast

https://thehill.com/changing-america/enrichment/583430-ancient-mammoth-tusk-discovered-10000-feet-deep-in-ocean-off?fireglass_rsn=true#fireglass_params&tabid=a0d37c7f9a282cba&start_with_session_counter=3&application_server_address=isolation1-us-east-1.wss.prod.fire.glass

Grad student finds a new saber-toothed species in a museum collection

https://phys.org/news/2021-12-grad-student-saber-toothed-species-museum.html?fbclid=IwAR3W5Zk5V3laMqRWdb8NoKbR-VRPMY5eG_ApS4vp_sePv2T7A4TfbXIiFWs

Humans Are Doomed to Go Extinct

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/humans-are-doomed-to-go-extinct/?fbclid=IwAR23roMUIGjlJMY--CptomwkUNdatoh9STGJEUSnC6g6g6c0UxW8XAD_quc

Duck-billed dinosaur may be one of many at Missouri site

https://apnews.com/article/science-travel-lifestyle-dinosaurs-fossils-562f56dc531e1e71a2df85c30a032d1b?utm_source=Facebook&utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_medium=AP&fbclid=IwAR3ZG2cu-jpUzeotu-Mjxsz5rsQO0tRdG0dNZkEMesep3BkxypOYG_LAbdY&fireglass_rsn=true#fireglass_params&tabid=aecf2ba6ba2dd173&start_with_session_counter=2&application_server_address=isolation2-us-east-1.wss.prod.fire.glass

Molecular analysis reveals the oldest Denisovan fossils yet

https://phys.org/news/2021-11-molecular-analysis-reveals-oldest-denisovan.html?fbclid=IwAR3huzLKIbjvf74_Cv9W9xQMfaPFrK4ahZ4DSMJOjKgN_7828p1bu1D_Upo

Ancient footprints suggest a mysterious hominid lived alongside Lucy’s kind

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ancient-footprints-mysterious-hominid-lucy-species?fbclid=IwAR0AGLJ_Dhv2fpd4GEpv54tbR5VimYTjvDamQc-E57-uHJVL3f20mWAOc_s

Mammoth ivory pendant is oldest decorated jewellery found in Eurasia
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2299071-mammoth-ivory-pendant-is-oldest-decorated-jewellery-found-in-eurasia/

New Australopithecus sediba bones suggest extinct hominin was bipedal
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2298635-new-australopithecus-sediba-bones-suggest-extinct-hominin-was-bipedal/

Evidence found of genetic evolution in Europeans over past several thousand
years

https://phys.org/news/2021-11-evidence-genetic-evolution-europeans-thousand.html

Prehistoric moms cared for kids better than we thought

https://phys.org/news/2021-11-prehistoric-moms-kids-thought.html

Ancient case of disease spillover discovered in Neanderthal man who got
sick butchering raw meat

https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/25/europe/ancient-spillover-neanderthal-brucellosis-disease-human-scn/index.html

*History*

How a New Accent Overturned BBC Tradition and Messed With the Nazis

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-north-england-voice-overturned-bbc-tradition-180967208/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=socialmedia&fbclid=IwAR1ubfwALIXh3uZRm0HYpyMR83oPe0zhpyE7xyYKSotJvGduD_oZ6fD9vS0

Documentary 'Bounty' confronts colonial death warrants against Indigenous
people

https://www.wbur.org/news/2021/11/15/documentary-bounty-colonialism-death-warrants-indigenous-people

YIVO is professionalizing, growing and reviving a lost world

https://ejewishphilanthropy.com/yivo-is-professionalizing-and-in-part-due-to-the-pandemic-growing/?fbclid=IwAR0Z-T7TpTkOc-S6U6Vunwsulfz7C43WWKabntx2SQhdgNrzS9RxIkbKwyw&fireglass_rsn=true#fireglass_params&tabid=a8cbe0c8bb703315&start_with_session_counter=2&application_server_address=isolation1-us-east-1.wss.prod.fire.glass

The destruction of Yazidi heritage under ISIS: Report

https://www.rudaw.net/english/middleeast/iraq/151120212?s=09

2 men convicted of killing Malcolm X expected to be exonerated

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/two-men-convicted-killing-malcom-x-expected-exonerated-rcna5891

After a 52-year chase, authorities ID the man behind an infamous Ohio bank
heist

https://www.npr.org/2021/11/14/1055659885/cleveland-ohio-bank-robber-identified-marshals-service?sc=18&f=1001

More Republican leaders try to ban books on race, LGBTQ issues

https://www.npr.org/2021/11/13/1055524205/more-republican-leaders-try-to-ban-books-on-race-lgbtq-issues?sc=18&f=1001

DNA analysis confirms 2,000-year-old sustainable fishing practices of
Tsleil-Waututh Nation

https://phys.org/news/2021-11-dna-analysis-year-old-sustainable-fishing.html

Justinianic Plague was nothing like flu and may have struck England before
it reached Constantinople, new study suggests

https://phys.org/news/2021-11-justinianic-plague-flu-struck-england.html

Why Did This Chinese City of Canals Collapse in the Third Millennium B.C.E.?

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/climate-change-was-culprit-in-collapse-of-ancient-chinese-culture-180979149/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=socialmedia&fbclid=IwAR1woZ0L9TsddjVsaZ0GQXCbqFfK2I9hsXCPRVWxjoZiRrO4c_TctdtjS2o

German Museum Acquires 15,000 Artifacts Documenting the History of
Anti-Semitism

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/german-museum-acquires-15000-artifacts-reflecting-history-of-antisemitism-180979050/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=socialmedia&fbclid=IwAR1eL2CRAFmI1mx6F3i2QTu99MAlLgYfcq0gKh1d_hjnIh8bYkHRSyuuKIw

A journey to Cherokee, the sovereign nation in N.C.

https://abc11.com/native-american-heritage-month-nahm-cherokee-covid-19/11246940/?fireglass_rsn=true#fireglass_params&tabid=af23b9c0bf688556&start_with_session_counter=2&application_server_address=isolation1-us-east-1.wss.prod.fire.glass

What really happened at Wounded Knee, the site of a historic massacre

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/what-really-happened-at-wounded-knee-the-site-of-a-historic-massacre?cmpid=org=ngp::mc=social::src=facebook::cmp=editorial::add=fb20211119history-woundedkneehistory&linkId=140839641&fbclid=IwAR0qAP_-yWzrHIq6OWnl9CJg01neRG2WxAfOm6Es1Ky1daQJ8nOmh367eXQ&fireglass_rsn=true#fireglass_params&tabid=a89eb425cd83f0d2&start_with_session_counter=2&application_server_address=isolation1-eu-central-1.wss.prod.fire.glass

Florida clears Groveland Four of 1949 rape of white woman

https://apnews.com/article/florida-fort-lauderdale-race-and-ethnicity-racial-injustice-3615a4656453cd59761ae314d3f456fc?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=AP&fbclid=IwAR3oGsjz_kHQxG9SY13KsfKBvwZMfvESDFooOJG3Kmk5ghG8GuQU-QLDK2Q&fireglass_rsn=true#fireglass_params&tabid=aae21b246d624f00&start_with_session_counter=2&application_server_address=isolation2-us-east-1.wss.prod.fire.glass

Man Who Raped And Killed 9-Year-Old Girl In 1959 Is Finally Identified

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/cold-case-murder-spokane-1959_n_6198d882e4b07fe2010c2744?d_id=2873303&ref=bffbhuffpost&ncid_tag=fcbklnkushpmg00000063&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&utm_campaign=us_main

After a century and a half, Ethiopian artefacts return home

https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/after-century-half-ethiopian-artefacts-return-home-2021-11-22/?utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A+Trending+Content&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=facebook

‘He left in peace’: Trappist monk, last survivor of the Algerian monastery
massacre, dies at 97

https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2021/11/22/algeria-trappist-monk-schumacher-death-241891

Ken Burns: Being American means reckoning with our violent history

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/22/ken-burns-sand-creek-massacre-america-violent-history/?utm_content=bufferacb0c&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Bison in Canada Discover Ancient Petroglyphs, Fulfilling an Indigenous
Prophecy

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/bison-in-canada-discover-ancient-petroglyphs-fulfilling-an-indigenous-prophecy-180979119/

Everyone’s history matters: The Wampanoag Indian Thanksgiving story
deserves to be known

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/national-museum-american-indian/2017/11/23/everyones-history-matters-and-wampanoag-indian-thanksgiving-story-deserves-be-known/

Native American tribes are gathering in Plymouth to mourn on Thanksgiving

https://www.npr.org/2021/11/25/1059212893/native-american-tribes-are-gathering-in-plymouth-to-mourn-on-thanksgiving?sc=18&f=1001

Former slaves brought Thanksgiving to Liberia — and rebooted it

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/11/24/1057267834/former-slaves-brought-thanksgiving-to-liberia-and-rebooted-it?sc=18&f=1001

Alaskan museum uncovers unique art from the indigenous Tlingit tribe

https://www.npr.org/2021/11/27/1059490241/alaskan-museum-uncovers-unique-art-from-the-indigenous-tlingit-tribe

The superfoods that fueled ancient Andeans through 2,500 years of turmoil

https://phys.org/news/2021-11-superfoods-fueled-ancient-andeans-years.html

New Memorials in Berlin Honor the Holocaust’s Overlooked Black Victims

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/berlin-memorials-honor-black-holocaust-victims-180979156/

A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the New National Museum of the American Latino

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/a-behind-the-scenes-look-at-the-new-national-museum-of-the-american-latino-180978963/

*Archaeology*

An Archaeological Dig Reignites the Debate Over the Old Testament’s
Historical Accuracy

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/archaeological-dig-reignites-debate-old-testament-historical-accuracy-180979011/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=socialmedia

The mysterious symbols found carved in Qatar's deserts

https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/qatar-al-jassasiya-petroglyphs-cmd/index.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=fbCNNi&utm_content=2021-11-22T16%3A03%3A04&utm_term=link&fbclid=IwAR0yp4dOdZbTC8XXtbxXiSGIf6pVPnydIHDf1SUWqykjOQbCkboVPxrlLx0&fireglass_rsn=true#fireglass_params&tabid=a6c40bc670442719&start_with_session_counter=2&application_server_address=isolation1-us-east-1.wss.prod.fire.glass

Native American leaders say Chaco prayers being answered

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/native-american-leaders-say-chaco-prayers-being-answered/2021/11/25/f0545624-4e09-11ec-a7b8-9ed28bf23929_story.html?fireglass_rsn=true#fireglass_params&tabid=a623a99838d7cfad&start_with_session_counter=3&application_server_address=isolation1-us-east-1.wss.prod.fire.glass

A Botched Restoration Left These Ancient Cambodian Statues With Swapped
Limbs

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/museums-swap-stone-limbs-and-restore-two-cambodian-masterpieces-to-their-former-glory-180979072/

Found: One of the Oldest Burial Sites in the Amazon

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/ancient-skeletons-amazon-rainforest?utm_medium=atlas-page&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR0LmH0J4op8V68G8gQ2fKxv_u4MltNcvf9XAOWJwxiify2BCqTTxdQemnk

Peruvian mummy that's at least 800 years old found by archeologists in Lima

https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/28/americas/peru-mummy-discovery-archeology-funeral-scn-scli-intl/index.html?utm_source=fbCNN&utm_medium=social&utm_content=2021-11-28T22%3A00%3A05&utm_term=link&fbclid=IwAR07-KUpylf5dmWy3Kdnwdz1JEYLeQkSkAYCdnHC3dhUj43jEtWSaEnmitA&fireglass_rsn=true#fireglass_params&tabid=aa65da2a74355dfd&start_with_session_counter=2&application_server_address=isolation2-us-east-1.wss.prod.fire.glass

Samurai Nest Egg

https://www.archaeology.org/issues/304-1807/from-the-trenches/6693-trenches-japan-samurai-coin-hoard?fbclid=IwAR2jytKXM9068u9ATJr58hxBXchUzVpPDKJ_jQic3SnpTtRFAHvZOr_zNI8

Boston moves to protect ancient Native American quarry in Mattapan

https://www.wbur.org/news/2021/11/24/boston-moves-to-protect-ancient-native-american-quarry-in-mattapan

Global heating is destroying rock art tens of thousands of years old,
experts warn

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/nov/16/global-heating-is-destroying-rock-art-tens-of-thousands-of-years-old-experts-warn?fireglass_rsn=true#fireglass_params&tabid=a4e7b8e291141ee7&start_with_session_counter=3&application_server_address=isolation2-us-east-1.wss.prod.fire.glass

Archaeologists discover salt workers’ residences at underwater Maya site

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/11/211119171224.htm

Archaeologists uncover post-conquest Aztec altar in Mexico City

https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/archaeologists-uncover-post-conquest-aztec-altar-mexico-city-2021-12-01/

*Egyptology*

Archaeologists say they've found a lost 4,500-year-old sun temple in Egypt

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/egypt-sun-temple-scli-intl-scn/index.html?utm_source=fbCNNi&utm_medium=social&utm_content=2021-11-15T22%3A00%3A57&utm_term=link&fireglass_rsn=true#fireglass_params&tabid=a3d44189f2bff235&start_with_session_counter=2&application_server_address=isolation1-us-east-1.wss.prod.fire.glass

Master Artisans Fixed Mistakes Made by Apprentices at Ancient Egyptian
Temple

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/master-artisans-fixed-mistakes-by-ancient-apprentices-at-temple-in-egypt-180979097/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=socialmedia&fbclid=IwAR06j-mbcwrdJ7x4EoTEHKtiW5AXw0MCB5-_2iaevQvtOlZBVXghlcysH_k

Egypt unveils renovated ‘Avenue of the Sphinxes’ in Luxor

https://apnews.com/article/science-africa-middle-east-egypt-nile-river-1beac6181f4e599331510557c14343fc

*General Science*

Xenobots: Team builds first living robots that can reproduce

https://techxplore.com/news/2021-11-xenobots-team-robots.html

Artificial intelligence helps speed up ecological surveys

https://phys.org/news/2021-12-artificial-intelligence-ecological-surveys.html?fbclid=IwAR1IqJmXdlvb5ytw4EL2eqfTecYmIpX2ySygeSw3wO_dtJTQeDvLNS293tI

First electric autonomous cargo ship launched in Norway

https://techxplore.com/news/2021-11-electric-autonomous-cargo-ship-norway.html

*Physics, Earth and Space Sciences*

Massive impact crater beneath Greenland could explain Ice Age climate swing

https://astronomy.com/news/2018/11/massive-impact-crater-beneath-greenland-could-explain-ice-age-climate-swing?utm_source=asyfb&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=asyfb&fbclid=IwAR2pa24K0Cq0eBqxDgZGGtf7HAN1R_X7srNvf4fo76jL6D3UKyBIN8zHOxQ

Enigmatic Planet Nine may have been seen by telescope in the 1980s
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2297376-enigmatic-planet-nine-may-have-been-seen-by-telescope-in-the-1980s/?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=echobox&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR1gvWiSLnoKGP4HAwwEEZgWIKLS60Iu3EVOubX_ykXsCaCds1zOQhLh3TY&fireglass_rsn=true#Echobox=1636978689-1&fireglass_params&tabid=a852bbca39712579&start_with_session_counter=2&application_server_address=isolation1-us-east-1.wss.prod.fire.glass

After many centuries, research suggests new facets to the blinking ‘Demon
Star’

https://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/many-centuries-research-suggests-new-facets-blinking-demon-star-rcna4813

Iodine successfully tested in satellite ion thrusters

https://phys.org/news/2021-11-iodine-successfully-satellite-ion-thrusters.html?fbclid=IwAR1xUZq0t-TXZYz2mHACeMMMngTT5OOy_chyjHwIQtFYVqLnYppkP0m3nNc

Space Force Detects Mystery Object in Orbit Alongside Chinese Satellite

https://gizmodo.com/space-force-detects-mystery-object-in-orbit-alongside-c-1848016044

In a first test of its planetary defense efforts, NASA's going to shove an
asteroid

https://www.npr.org/2021/11/22/1056995884/in-a-first-test-of-its-planetary-defense-efforts-nasas-going-to-shove-an-asteroi?utm_campaign=npr&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_term=nprnews&fbclid=IwAR3uzNfe0S6VLVxELBVdnXghr0u_Al4q3-9G7wgLIZ-H7yFBKHMJyLOJu_U&fireglass_rsn=true#fireglass_params&tabid=a27cf30b650f228e&start_with_session_counter=2&application_server_address=isolation1-us-east-1.wss.prod.fire.glass

Testing mini-radar to peer inside asteroid

https://phys.org/news/2021-11-mini-radar-peer-asteroid.html?fireglass_rsn=true#fireglass_params&tabid=a5b603baa5d2afb4&start_with_session_counter=3&application_server_address=isolation1-us-east-1.wss.prod.fire.glass

Russian anti-satellite weapon test: What happened and what are the risks?

https://astronomy.com/news/2021/11/russian-anti-satellite-weapon-test-what-happened-and-what-are-the-risks?utm_source=asyfb&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=asyfb&fbclid=IwAR2gXmtgNoR9FViLs6Z0y9x5KKJ_QxPZbXTRRhyf-LeBDdiP9iUbchwFtis

Earth's earliest water may have come from solar wind and space rocks

https://www.livescience.com/earth-water-may-have-come-from-space?fbclid=IwAR2gXmtgNoR9FViLs6Z0y9x5KKJ_QxPZbXTRRhyf-LeBDdiP9iUbchwFtis&utm_campaign=socialflow&fireglass_rsn=true#fireglass_params&tabid=aad86a454db596a4&start_with_session_counter=2&application_server_address=isolation2-us-east-1.wss.prod.fire.glass

Making air from Moon dust: Scientists create a prototype oxygen plant

https://astronomy.com/news/2020/01/how-to-make-air-from-moondust?utm_source=asyfb&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=asyfb&fbclid=IwAR0LmH0J4op8V68G8gQ2fKxv_u4MltNcvf9XAOWJwxiify2BCqTTxdQemnk

Here’s how we could mine the moon for rocket fuel

https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/05/19/1001857/how-moon-lunar-mining-water-ice-rocket-fuel?utm_campaign=site_visitor.unpaid.engagement&utm_medium=tr_social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR2gXmtgNoR9FViLs6Z0y9x5KKJ_QxPZbXTRRhyf-LeBDdiP9iUbchwFtis&fireglass_rsn=true#fireglass_params&tabid=ac03ea569a9799e1&start_with_session_counter=2&application_server_address=isolation2-us-east-1.wss.prod.fire.glass

Could Life Survive on a Planet Orbiting a Black Hole?

https://astronomy.com/news/2019/10/could-life-survive-on-a-planet-orbiting-a-black-hole?utm_source=asyfb&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=asyfb&fbclid=IwAR10qKpXL-C6OrLxVcazpP0uZkb5e_kTdSf5CfVnNh4-JWeREaVq_sX1Dyw

Alien organisms could hitch a ride on our spacecraft and contaminate Earth,
scientists warn

https://www.space.com/space-exploration-risks-alien-organism-invasion?fbclid=IwAR1j_P_6TFVm_A3D_3z65LcXHUDVhkfBXNr2wdD4Vm1o9uK6Ig0URNIby4g&utm_campaign=socialflow&fireglass_rsn=true#fireglass_params&tabid=a3c6b61955d5ca67&start_with_session_counter=2&application_server_address=isolation2-us-east-1.wss.prod.fire.glass

Radio emission detected from the Vela X-1 bow shock

https://phys.org/news/2021-11-radio-emission-vela-x-.html?fbclid=IwAR03ztlTLTYVDS-y2f9aiVAI4qtpFjz-HbJsB_HU1KI-qYimZhMGxIicB5E

Very Large Telescope uncovers closest pair of supermassive black holes yet

https://phys.org/news/2021-11-large-telescope-uncovers-closest-pair.html?fbclid=IwAR3W5Zk5V3laMqRWdb8NoKbR-VRPMY5eG_ApS4vp_sePv2T7A4TfbXIiFWs

Never-before-seen rocks found in these exoplanet graveyards

https://www.space.com/new-rock-types-surrounding-white-dwarfs?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_content=space.com&fbclid=IwAR0IAaivcdx5Au8Z6hjRG9tKtsjb9p5Lr9YCsrMQpaw3QBJMGXQuvJYCz_0&fireglass_rsn=true#fireglass_params&tabid=a37c28524b5d9293&start_with_session_counter=2&application_server_address=isolation2-us-east-1.wss.prod.fire.glass

Strange 'eggshell' exoplanets may have ultra-smooth surfaces

https://www.space.com/eggshell-exoplanets-ultra-smooth-surfaces?utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_content=livescience&utm_medium=social&fbclid=IwAR3ZG2cu-jpUzeotu-Mjxsz5rsQO0tRdG0dNZkEMesep3BkxypOYG_LAbdY&fireglass_rsn=true#fireglass_params&tabid=ad53abf8401088af&start_with_session_counter=2&application_server_address=isolation2-us-east-1.wss.prod.fire.glass

New study shows the largest comet ever observed was active at near-record
distance

https://phys.org/news/2021-11-largest-comet-near-record-distance.html?fbclid=IwAR1MCjGV62k5snTuEGV12t9Q-aRcP2ePIXdwPw7IuQSmewU8zp_J6_XnyD8

Space may help scientists finally pin down the lifetime of a neutron

https://astronomy.com/news/2021/10/space-may-help-scientists-finally-pin-down-the-lifetime-of-a-neutron?utm_source=asyfb&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=asyfb&fbclid=IwAR2tA9Kr7zMNILw87oJzMirBhXVM3eN3USBO4ntZ03CUV1B1gmPXo0jY9MU

Mysterious clouds could offer new clues on dark matter

https://phys.org/news/2021-12-mysterious-clouds-clues-dark.html?fbclid=IwAR2oZHQ4MvsmbEVVV42NocDF34uQua4q-IlfY-tG9LdwvrgDB8u0ljBgVr8

How Astronomers Detected a Technosignature From Proxima Centauri — And Why
They Rejected It

https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/how-astronomers-detected-a-technosignature-from-proxima-centauri-and-why?utm_source=dscfb&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dscfb&fbclid=IwAR3vb3msnnMM737Pfx24A35kzkxBBzEl80F3XwXmVedmwobNGE2CNbEKfM0

Hubble telescope restores 3rd instrument in slow return to operations

https://www.space.com/hubble-space-telescope-cosmic-origins-spectrograph-recovered?fbclid=IwAR1WE_11pmmo7tPrnCsHqRYSWN2Z8N1NXavT5ovSOSl2RmIJh0IHS37WMmo&utm_campaign=socialflow&fireglass_rsn=true#fireglass_params&tabid=a68f3c8aa484e600&start_with_session_counter=2&application_server_address=isolation2-us-east-1.wss.prod.fire.glass

Elon Musk warns SpaceX employees of bankruptcy risk if Starship engine
production doesn't increase: report

https://thehill.com/regulation/technology/583616-elon-musk-warns-spacex-employees-of-bankruptcy-risk-if-starship-engine?fbclid=IwAR1wa1j1VG9mMvUyayBVy5jTdCqaoYN-_2fr76BPqYSZP4SceaJfvOqKHUg&fireglass_rsn=true&rl=1#fireglass_params&tabid=a89eef23f17521c8&start_with_session_counter=2&application_server_address=isolation2-us-east-1.wss.prod.fire.glass

The threat of space debris delays a spacewalk by NASA astronauts

https://www.npr.org/2021/11/30/1060057901/spacewalk-delay-space-debris-junk?sc=18&f=1001

In the quantum realm, not even time flows as you might expect

https://phys.org/news/2021-11-quantum-realm.html

NASA seeks ideas for a nuclear reactor on the moon

https://phys.org/news/2021-11-nasa-ideas-nuclear-reactor-moon.html

New night sky recognition highlights park's historical significance: "The
night sky unites us all as humans"

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mesa-verde-national-park-historical-significance-dark-sky/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab6a&linkId=140964905

Astronomers discover more than 300 possible new exoplanets

https://phys.org/news/2021-11-astronomers-exoplanets.html

Enigmatic Planet Nine may have been seen by telescope in the 1980s
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2297376-enigmatic-planet-nine-may-have-been-seen-by-telescope-in-the-1980s/

Molecular device turns infrared into visible light

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/936664

TESS discovers a planet the size of Mars but with the makeup of Mercury

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/936573

Studying our solar system's protective bubble

https://phys.org/news/2021-12-solar.html

Lightweight space robot with precise control developed

https://phys.org/news/2021-12-lightweight-space-robot-precise.html

*Environment, Climate Change and Alternative Energy Sources*

The lurking threat to solar power’s growth

https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/07/14/1028461/solar-value-deflation-california-climate-change/?utm_campaign=site_visitor.unpaid.engagement&utm_medium=tr_social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR3wzCAgGqrzqJSccxn2HeEOvnAHccg3bRv3japiNawg43lqSAkY1N55beM&fireglass_rsn=true#fireglass_params&tabid=a5e62897ae21dbe4&start_with_session_counter=2&application_server_address=isolation1-us-east-1.wss.prod.fire.glass

Diamond hauled from deep inside Earth holds never-before-seen mineral

https://www.livescience.com/new-mantle-mineral-found-in-diamond?fbclid=IwAR34qXbkxHdo2oFWjJma1g21x2bOGV9tncV6hB1gxJJJ_vDllSvoAKi4SvI&utm_campaign=socialflow&fireglass_rsn=true#fireglass_params&tabid=a26e39464bb26d0c&start_with_session_counter=2&application_server_address=isolation1-us-east-1.wss.prod.fire.glass

Saving the Amazon, one wood-carved spoon at a time

https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Americas/2021/1102/Saving-the-Amazon-one-wood-carved-spoon-at-a-time?cmpid=kwpsub&kwp_0=2032135&kwp_4=5855621&kwp_1=2517874&fbclid=IwAR0Synost5x_x3t0-hnFFZvkYecLLpFEeRrcb8GZoSzF9dme7wVaEpfeeiY

USDA protecting, empowering Indigenous foodways

https://indiancountrytoday.com/news/usda-protecting-empowering-indigenous-food-ways?fbclid=IwAR2uvxySosGdGfb0Mem-1f9QVwI9RaKmRNszA0TlZIFXFEzdTPLoRkRCkiY

Climate change: What did the scientists make of COP26?

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-59308958?xtor=AL-72-%5Bpartner%5D-%5Bbbc.news.twitter%5D-%5Bheadline%5D-%5Bnews%5D-%5Bbizdev%5D-%5Bisapi%5D&at_custom4=DC2508E0-473A-11EC-95A4-2ABB4744363C&at_medium=custom7&at_custom3=%40BBCWorld&at_custom1=%5Bpost+type%5D&at_custom2=twitter&at_campaign=64&fireglass_rsn=true#fireglass_params&tabid=a66b24eb7622ea28&start_with_session_counter=3&application_server_address=isolation1-us-east-1.wss.prod.fire.glass

Hindu worshippers brave toxic white foam to bathe in India's sacred but
polluted river

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/hindus-india-toxic-white-foam-sacred-river-rcna5405

This Colorado 'solar garden' is literally a farm under solar panels

https://www.npr.org/2021/11/14/1054942590/solar-energy-colorado-garden-farm-land?sc=18&f=1001

When climate change stops being policy and starts getting personal

https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2021/1116/Echobox=1637105109&fireglass_params&tabid=ae9b656abbe51f6b&start_with_session_counter=3&application_server_address=isolation2-us-east-1.wss.prod.fire.glass

Israel's Redefine Meat serves up plant-based whole cuts of beef

https://www.reuters.com/business/sustainable-business/israels-redefine-meat-serves-up-plant-based-whole-cuts-beef-2021-11-16/?fireglass_rsn=true#fireglass_params&tabid=af0b6d478888bd0e&start_with_session_counter=3&application_server_address=isolation2-us-east-1.wss.prod.fire.glass

One of the world’s largest protected areas now being opened to commercial
fishing

https://thehill.com/changing-america/sustainability/environment/581706-one-of-worlds-largest-protected-areas-now-being?fireglass_rsn=true#fireglass_params&tabid=aa0c1a6b33ccc023&start_with_session_counter=3&application_server_address=isolation2-eu-central-1.wss.prod.fire.glass

Mystery of high performing novel solar cell materials revealed in stunning
clarity

https://phys.org/news/2021-11-mystery-high-solar-cell-materials.html?fbclid=IwAR1RDQQriBa2zsCw0Law9l_whx4v34El3KkKknl___ztRgI2a_OCmmrSZvU

Overconsumption is costing us the earth and human happiness

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2010/jun/21/overconsumption-environment-relationships-annie-leonard?fireglass_rsn=true#fireglass_params&tabid=ab382b06e1db98ee&start_with_session_counter=3&application_server_address=isolation1-us-east-1.wss.prod.fire.glass

Scientists develop lead-absorbing tape to boost viability of rising star in
solar power industry

https://techxplore.com/news/2021-11-scientists-lead-absorbing-tape-boost-viability.html?fbclid=IwAR3cCV1Efx8c4WCcHPXEyH63XoFzBeQ3XUQ8RMJWPefjsxYjV4kA8K-hVJI

Venice’s barrier against rising seas could jeopardize city’s ecosystem

https://www.science.org/content/article/venice-s-barrier-against-rising-seas-could-jeopardize-city-s-ecosystem?utm_campaign=SciMag&utm_source=Social&utm_medium=Facebook&fireglass_rsn=true#fireglass_params&tabid=abee0e9fcd508bf9&start_with_session_counter=2&application_server_address=isolation1-eu-central-1.wss.prod.fire.glass

Tiny Nuclear Reactors Can Save American Energy

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/a34976294/tiny-nuclear-reactors/?utm_medium=social-media&utm_campaign=socialflowFBPOP&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR3OH_YZQ91DxWFWGrHa8i6Ag_7vIkJkyXd7XbR5_Vxsj1_juvhJgomVxTI&fireglass_rsn=true#fireglass_params&tabid=a79e859fe37028e1&start_with_session_counter=2&application_server_address=isolation1-eu-central-1.wss.prod.fire.glass

City trees are turning green early, prompting warnings about food and
pollination

https://www.npr.org/2021/11/30/1059375777/city-trees-are-turning-green-early-prompting-warnings-for-food-and-pollination?sc=18&f=1001

Bay Area man uses 3D printer for good in hopes of restoring coral reefs
impacted by climate change

https://abc7ny.com/coral-reef-climate-change-damaged-pollution/10993177/

Atlantic Ocean water began warming the Arctic as early as 1907
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2298982-atlantic-ocean-water-began-warming-the-arctic-as-early-as-1907/

Australia's Barrier Reef erupts in color as corals spawn

https://www.npr.org/2021/11/24/1058790263/australias-barrier-reef-erupts-in-color-as-corals-spawn?sc=18&f=1001

Chemical pollutants disrupt reproduction in anemonefish, study finds

https://phys.org/news/2021-12-chemical-pollutants-disrupt-reproduction-anemonefish.html

*Biological, Genetics and Medical Sciences*

U.S. FDA authorizes virtual reality system for reducing back pain

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/us-fda-authorizes-virtual-reality-system-reducing-back-pain-2021-11-16/?taid=61947e487ccf120001e2f8ba&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=trueanthem&utm_source=twitter&fireglass_rsn=true#fireglass_params&tabid=addc6a9535f50519&start_with_session_counter=3&application_server_address=isolation1-eu-central-1.wss.prod.fire.glass

Woman’s own immune system has possibly cured her of HIV

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/womans-immune-system-possibly-cured-hiv-rcna5610

Risso's dolphins found to use spin move to dive deep for prey

https://phys.org/news/2021-12-risso-dolphins-deep-prey.html?fbclid=IwAR3Tsi3pw3xLz-XJnYGxJW3CpDoopXibaUr6Jquel4vGYNP_qiNyy9-_has

Study: Humpback whale song is about finding, not attracting, whales

https://phys.org/news/2021-11-humpback-whale-song-whales.html?fbclid=IwAR11CsOrxCQh8RRt5DMJ2r8q-IaiFCUsYOgd966fa_GFnsKs81LNqAqUlhA

New cancer therapy holds potential to switch off major cancer types without
side effects

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-11-cancer-therapy-potential-major-side.html?fbclid=IwAR11CsOrxCQh8RRt5DMJ2r8q-IaiFCUsYOgd966fa_GFnsKs81LNqAqUlhA

Heart repair and regeneration after a heart attack: A review

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-11-heart-regeneration.html?fbclid=IwAR0iMSZ4p9TAHeqK23ieuBN2mTvER3fdU23pHalZ2ByCFCYwKqSjpXIyaVg

How Brains Seamlessly Switch Between Languages

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-brains-seamlessly-switch-between-languages/?fireglass_rsn=true#fireglass_params&tabid=a3fd215e92101060&start_with_session_counter=3&application_server_address=isolation2-us-east-1.wss.prod.fire.glass

Iconic Mediterranean mussel, one of world's largest, faces ‘imminent
extinction’

https://www.science.org/content/article/iconic-mediterranean-mussel-faces-imminent-extinction?utm_campaign=ScienceNow&utm_source=Social&utm_medium=Facebook&fireglass_rsn=true#fireglass_params&tabid=a68885992a7c40ea&start_with_session_counter=2&application_server_address=isolation2-us-east-1.wss.prod.fire.glass

Conservationists flew 30 white rhinos to Rwanda in a huge operation to
protect them

https://www.npr.org/2021/11/30/1060057463/rhinos-translocation-move-white-rwanda-south-africa?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_term=nprnews&utm_campaign=npr&fbclid=IwAR0tFxZ55Bcc50MtbJtb3zaMZzINegd2Buynlw7ZbSjiriIUtJ2vnSsGoPE&fireglass_rsn=true&t=1638367152120

Dolphins spotted trapping fish in mud rings in the Caribbean
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2286247-dolphins-spotted-trapping-fish-in-mud-rings-in-the-caribbean/

Potential new gene editing tools uncovered

https://phys.org/news/2021-12-potential-gene-tools-uncovered.html

Immune system-stimulating nanoparticle could lead to more powerful vaccines

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-12-immune-system-stimulating-nanoparticle-powerful-vaccines.html

*Other*

Our Thanksgiving Menu has Lost a Few Crops

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/national-museum-of-natural-history/2020/11/24/our-thanksgiving-menu-has-lost-few-crops/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=socialmedia&fbclid=IwAR1SsyhTRLa0BJqnaMwtq4ECkPoK1YQsX2d-iuaE4lKHnR_OkjD8qDDubIY

How would Earth be different if modern humans never existed?

https://www.livescience.com/what-if-humans-never-existed-on-earth?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_content=space.com&fbclid=IwAR34qXbkxHdo2oFWjJma1g21x2bOGV9tncV6hB1gxJJJ_vDllSvoAKi4SvI&fireglass_rsn=true#fireglass_params&tabid=a920e8b1543baae2&start_with_session_counter=2&application_server_address=isolation1-us-east-1.wss.prod.fire.glass

This Guy Paints the Sex He Allegedly Has with Aliens

https://www.vice.com/en/article/a34dme/this-guy-paints-the-sex-he-allegedly-has-with-aliens?utm_source=vice_facebook&utm_medium=social

'Passing' filmmaker Rebecca Hall shares the personal story behind her movie

https://www.npr.org/2021/11/30/1059824073/passing-rebecca-hall-film?utm_term=nprnews&utm_campaign=npr&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&fbclid=IwAR1-ntLy9z7qwnlATt-83D2OtEPVNxIT1Ax8Z0KG83gOdV0bdtASLGNq1lE&fireglass_rsn=true#fireglass_params&tabid=a985c5da34c1f51d&start_with_session_counter=2&application_server_address=isolation2-us-east-1.wss.prod.fire.glass

Additional Informational

UMW Course Preserves Native American Stories

https://www.umw.edu/news/2021/11/23/umw-course-preserves-native-american-stories/

Gold jewellery from the time of Nefertiti found in Bronze Age tombs in
Cyprus

https://www.gu.se/en/news/gold-jewellery-from-the-time-of-nefertiti-found-in-bronze-age-tombs-in-cyprus

Multaka-Oxford refugee project at Oxford University Museums gets five-year
extension

https://www.museumnext.com/article/multaka-oxford-refugee-project-at-oxford-university-museums-gets-five-year-extension/?fbclid=IwAR0G4hkPBVF0OhMA4752bCxzGkJYefiy6inkhb5wxVh_A6A94aXb2JttfXo

Will it be a risky transition to net zero?

https://odi.org/en/insights/will-it-be-a-risky-transition-to-net-zero/?utm_content=buffer6aa5e&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer&fireglass_rsn=true#fireglass_params&tabid=a0619742dbb57280&start_with_session_counter=3&application_server_address=isolation1-us-east-1.wss.prod.fire.glass

1,001 Voices on Climate Change: Everyday Stories of Flood, Fire, Drought,
and Displacement from Around the World

https://www.amazon.com/001-Voices-Climate-Change-Displacement/dp/1982146710/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=1001+Voices+on+Climate+Change%3A+Everyday+Stories+of+Flood%2C+Fire%2C+Drought%2C+and+Displacement+from+Around+the+World&qid=1638289669&qsid=146-1603916-6707617&sr=8-1&sres=1982146710&srpt=ABIS_BOOK

Space Delta 9 builds orbital warfare tradecraft from the ground up

https://www.spoc.spaceforce.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/2535788/space-delta-9-builds-orbital-warfare-tradecraft-from-the-ground-up?fireglass_rsn=true#fireglass_params&tabid=afdf78bf46900e07&start_with_session_counter=3&application_server_address=isolation1-us-east-1.wss.prod.fire.glass

Europe’s first meteorological satellite in polar orbit ends its run

https://www.eumetsat.int/europes-first-meteorological-satellite-polar-orbit-ends-its-run?fireglass_rsn=true#fireglass_params&tabid=a93c3beb6840a194&start_with_session_counter=3&application_server_address=isolation1-us-east-1.wss.prod.fire.glass

Explore over 18,000 Photographs from the Bureau of Indian Affairs

https://www.archives.gov/research/native-americans/bia/photos/?fbclid=IwAR07b9VI-OYQ1_24U_TpieiRvWEy2qyK2BcKEGWw4Gu2DJGFqyNtnRK2s2s

Applying Art History to Workplace Safety: Saving Lives and Growing Revenue
at the Toledo Museum of Art

https://www.aam-us.org/2021/11/22/applying-art-history-to-workplace-safety-saving-lives-and-growing-revenue-at-the-toledo-museum-of-art/

International Science Council Newsletter

https://mailchi.mp/council.science/unleashing-science-8601730?e=725b365f54

Mobilizing Museums for Climate Action Toolkit

https://www.museumsforclimateaction.org/mobilise/toolkit

City of Miami, FL Greenhouse Gas Reduction Plan

https://www.miamigov.com/My-Government/ClimateChange/Climate-Change-Action/GHGReduction

Space X, Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) Mission Launch- Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKRf6-NcMqI

New Netflix Release "Gather" Explores the Fight to Revitalize Native
Foodways

https://www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/new-netflix-release-gather-explores-fight-revitalize-native-foodways?utm_medium=social_owned&utm_source=tw&fireglass_rsn=true#fireglass_params&tabid=a74449faf90a51b2&start_with_session_counter=3&application_server_address=isolation2-us-east-1.wss.prod.fire.glass

In 2021, for the first time, the Group of Twenty (G20) under the Italian
Presidency gathered heads of state and government to work together to
combat the illicit trade.

https://theantiquitiescoalition.org/developing-implementing-solutions/a-roadmap-for-the-g20/?fireglass_rsn=true#fireglass_params&tabid=ab6ff1688ea608db&start_with_session_counter=3&application_server_address=isolation2-us-east-1.wss.prod.fire.glass
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