[Jawlist] Weekly Science Report 10-15-21

Sat Oct 16 08:43:00 PDT 2021

*Weekly Science Report*

*October 15, 2021*

*“Most men draw a circle around themselves, their wife and children and
care only for them, other men draw a larger circle including their brothers
and sisters.  Great men draw a large circle incorporating many many
people.”*

10,000 B.C.

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*

Russian expedition finds evidence of northernmost Stone Age hunters above
the Arctic Circle

https://www.livescience.com/northernmost-stone-age-hunters-found?fbclid=IwAR2IATYDl5KccOnjRpXRDj94fICIdLtmN4EaY3V_RMoLxkK9O6ZbGmI1LHw&utm_campaign=socialflow

Homo Erectus: What Do We Know About Our Early Ancestors?

https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/homo-erectus-what-do-we-know-about-our-early-ancestors?utm_source=dscfb&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dscfb&fbclid=IwAR2Oe3wz762L3eiB4jC_Z2QpNJxwl2rRqAdxCQBVsugTiyO7G3n_nahIEGA

Crystals and eggshells tell a 105,000-year-old story of humans in the
Kalahari Desert

https://www.popsci.com/story/science/early-humans-in-kalahari-desert/?utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A%20Trending%20Content&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR3XGdJqFo8Mkfk5bJDXiZ--ng_0gYUSct7rjhd7RkIiQrrYwUkhXNY9nxg

Jawbone discovered in Indonesian cave represents oldest human remains found
in Wallacea

https://phys.org/news/2021-09-jawbone-indonesian-cave-oldest-human.html

A body burned inside a hut 20,000 years ago signaled shifting views of death

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ancient-body-burned-burial-jordan-death-views?fbclid=IwAR3h_D7n8Z9XyxLJFTu4QvVXCOGj-viPqvvAVwwl8z0oU5kuDY_H1crqAEk

Researchers describe new tardigrade fossil found in 16 million year old
Domincan amber

https://phys.org/news/2021-10-tardigrade-fossil-million-year-domincan.html?fbclid=IwAR3laod7KqPOe-BUaPi_BlXgrbKez78PuhK4drYEVLkl700cFc9ANUWL7Bg

Extinction and origination patterns change after mass extinctions

https://phys.org/news/2021-10-extinction-patterns-mass-extinctions.html?fbclid=IwAR3lC08CT1lOC3wk-oiS9DGNLKPGC5XmSpYCn3jyqAKis7HDi9rTgi2HA1M

Hundreds of three-eyed 'dinosaur shrimp' emerge after Arizona monsoon

https://www.livescience.com/dinosaur-shrimp-emerge-arizona?fbclid=IwAR3I1FFgPDskbqPHJ5XciNY4Sppu4BqezdHKMT2td_-WzTcV6uY_6PJk_jM&utm_campaign=socialflow

Modern Crocodiles Are Evolving at a Rapid Rate

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/modern-crocodiles-are-evolving-rapid-rate-180978432/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=socialmedia&fbclid=IwAR1cz46vrvIHKnZ08Ufjk0NlU2Mc2atyIcsFu3pCDU-ldartfLinuL0X6bM

Late persistence of human ancestors at the margins of the monsoon in India

https://phys.org/news/2021-10-late-persistence-human-ancestors-margins.html?fbclid=IwAR14GR0swn5VpAXp5-iOogL-5XVv3sRCiV7daZbZKrh3dgcTRUGcUJyb5Hk

Scientists Find a Mysterious 'Ghost Lineage' In the DNA of West Africans

https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/genetic-traces-of-mysterious-human-lineage-detected-in-people-living-in?utm_source=dscfb&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dscfb&fbclid=IwAR1eeO1DscComAeDi_7oe0E0e77TtAmo6rBYDyY7Kb5jeph4ksXl9mu001E

Fossils of Ice Age manatees discovered in Texas

https://www.livescience.com/ice-age-manatees-texas-coast.html?utm_medium=social&utm_content=livescience&utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_source=facebook.com&fbclid=IwAR1Kh_8_rgY-wzKjcMtGte53tXEkwvo6vYyaInmmqzYobQNWCVl2lbcv4Xc&fireglass_rsn=true#fireglass_params&tabid=a5f267482021a360&start_with_session_counter=2&application_server_address=isolation1-us-east-1.wss.prod.fire.glass

Ardi and her discoverers shake up hominid evolution in ‘Fossil Men’

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/fossil-men-book-ardi-kermit-pattison-hominid-evolution?fbclid=IwAR2HCrcGcOgfSVKdHi99nR83N3NZb7LtNwGQmOj6_LRtNCL9s_OhPp6kR5o

Scientists report evidence for a new but now extinct species of ancient
ground-dwelling sloth

https://phys.org/news/2021-10-scientists-evidence-extinct-species-ancient.html

Humans were using tobacco at least 12,000 years ago

https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/11/americas/earliest-use-of-tobacco-scn-wellness/index.html?utm_content=2021-10-12T01%3A26%3A07&utm_term=link&utm_source=fbCNN&utm_medium=social&fireglass_rsn=true#fireglass_params&tabid=a9b0f8e6678ea46b&start_with_session_counter=2&application_server_address=isolation1-us-east-1.wss.prod.fire.glass

Analysis of ancient teeth questions theory that Native Americans originated
from Japan

https://www.livescience.com/native-american-origin-theory-debunked?fbclid=IwAR3tABBSyIfr2QatQ-dV8-thDzxuQ7PWOi-KJzlChEme3nDb2BckEzjPoNc&utm_campaign=socialflow&fireglass_rsn=true#fireglass_params&tabid=acd6d7b7fd2a7d11&start_with_session_counter=2&application_server_address=isolation1-us-east-1.wss.prod.fire.glass

Arabia was 'cornerstone' in early human migrations out of Africa, study
suggests

https://www.livescience.com/arabia-human-migration-out-of-africa?fbclid=IwAR3tABBSyIfr2QatQ-dV8-thDzxuQ7PWOi-KJzlChEme3nDb2BckEzjPoNc&utm_campaign=socialflow&fireglass_rsn=true#fireglass_params&tabid=a933d2d856fcfcd3&start_with_session_counter=2&application_server_address=isolation1-us-east-1.wss.prod.fire.glass

Artificial intelligence suggests a new narrative for the Out of Africa
process

https://phys.org/news/2021-10-artificial-intelligence-narrative-africa.html

Early modern human from Southeast Asia adapted to a rainforest environment

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/10/211014141955.htm

*History*

Ron Arad: Mossad agents mount mission for missing airman

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-58792887

100-year-old former Nazi camp guard goes on trial in Germany

https://apnews.com/article/berlin-europe-germany-courts-state-courts-16973c7827b512ab9992fb887a0d7018?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_medium=AP_Europe&utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_medium=AP&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR01A2Opa2sGjS34awdH8eRj-BkwrqKC2qKbEXH7oa0hUMIA7o0i6a42YOI

Goodbye, Columbus? Here's what Indigenous Peoples' Day means to Native
Americans

https://www.npr.org/2021/10/11/1044823626/indigenous-peoples-day-native-americans-columbus?utm_campaign=npr&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_term=nprnews

Violence Is The Most Common Subject of Commemoration in US Monuments

https://hyperallergic.com/681501/violence-is-the-most-common-subject-of-commemoration-in-us-monuments/?utm_content=buffer9879f&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=buffer

Scholar Discovers a 14th-Century Monk Wrote About the Americas Before
Columbus’ Discovery

https://mymodernmet.com/manuscript-america-markland/?fbclid=IwAR3dO3co6aqJZ2Wo8yZHYc5NGPQMPGh1-GqNeiXpmL9SScquANU7LgKOlAM

She guarded the Black Lives Matter memorial. Now, she's working to protect
its art

https://www.npr.org/2021/10/02/1041543414/she-guarded-the-black-lives-matter-memorial-now-shes-working-to-protect-its-art?sc=18&f=1001

The Untold Story of the Secret Mission to Seize Nazi Map Data

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/untold-story-secret-mission-seize-nazi-map-data-180973317/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=socialmedia&fbclid=IwAR2hDlkcXKtSFA6pemYp4vnyOMJvmi6OJOWely0mMmxBO90O5gjLCis9A9I

Before Rhode Island Built Its State House, a Racist Mob Destroyed the
Community That Lived There

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/uncovering-snowtown-and-the-racially-motivated-mob-attack-that-changed-rhode-island-180978798/?fbclid=IwAR3O3EkUFdos_44ysTCI7ysQEsfKtAUzQJ6Lk0b-69ELoKrMuJsqU1N3498

How Indigenous Stories Helped Scientists Understand the Origin of Three
Huge Boulders

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-indigenous-stories-helped-scientists-understand-the-origin-of-three-huge-boulders-180978788/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=socialmedia&fbclid=IwAR2MJ3FDwDmzFfJtyJAZOMObqjzu2HckpHAgSRn7fjXSEPr2SXaBhgHbveU

Nine barracks at Auschwitz death camp were vandalized with antisemitic,
Holocaust-denying phrases

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/10/06/auschwitz-birkenau-vandalized-holocaust/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR3bNltXnGUMzsEg7oZKda3nAKzKNU3YWM34-XHVTsFsjE2PxRoLAx_c0GU

Long-lost letter reunites families of two Jewish sisters and the Polish
farmer who saved them from the Nazis

https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/21/europe/jewish-sisters-rescued-scli-intl/index.html?fbclid=IwAR2AG8PLyYZlNVY4IGNaW4A1SH-JZKyHlLuvEK9cvmD2wC4XBaDWGhUvCvI

Tanzanian novelist Gurnah wins 2021 Nobel for depicting impact of
colonialism, migration

https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/tanzanian-writer-abdulrazak-gurnah-wins-2021-nobel-prize-literature-2021-10-07/

The Untold Story of van Gogh’s Once-Maligned Masterpiece, ‘The Potato
Eaters’

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/the-untold-story-of-the-potato-eaters-a-van-gogh-masterpiece-once-maligned-by-critics-180978833/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=socialmedia&fbclid=IwAR0cav_BPoC8dY_f19488guDGxhydpwte5jFSCVjcz5I3eEg4ZM3DLEOlqI

Egypt’s first ticking clock ticks again

https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2021/10/egypts-first-ticking-clock-ticks-again?fbclid=IwAR2IWa9wU3KvjDtmhooOiVb5Kx2FjFmyDn1uHgHM12q3MCGEInCx0T-IrnQ

Alabama spends more than a half-million dollars a year on a Confederate
memorial. Black historical sites struggle to keep their doors open.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/alabama-spends-more-than-a-half-million-dollars-a-year-on-a-confederate-memorial-black-historical-sites-struggle-to-keep-their-doors-open/2021/10/03/77953f7e-222a-11ec-8fd4-57a5d9bf4b47_story.html?fbclid=IwAR2yMXBxVkiq_I3mVKgSxeNd6pCoGnKI8j99kybdjCMqxO5fkYRDRXMwaHM

The nation's largest public library system is ending late fees forever

https://www.npr.org/2021/10/05/1043412502/library-fees-eliminated-new-york?sc=18&f=1001

A historic rainforest and other lands have been returned to Indigenous
Australians

https://www.npr.org/2021/10/05/1043256101/indigenous-australians-get-land-back-queensland?sc=18&f=1001

The True Native New Yorkers Can Never Truly Reclaim Their Homeland

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/true-native-new-yorkers-can-never-truly-reclaim-their-homeland-180970472/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=socialmedia&fbclid=IwAR22LKj7xbFW1mr8jVVzy5Pqy6vs_eAN_U-egmoHzhwqMjgoQCg60vyIV5I

A 1,000-Year-Old Battle Sparks a Fresh War Among Academics, Amateurs

https://www.wsj.com/articles/england-english-history-battles-war-brunanburh-the-citadel-11634056437?mod=e2tw&fireglass_rsn=true#fireglass_params&tabid=a0cf648ec7503a68&start_with_session_counter=3&application_server_address=isolation1-us-east-1.wss.prod.fire.glass

Before revitalizing Cherokee Nation, Wilma Mankiller had to prove her
critics wrong

https://www.npr.org/2021/10/10/1043908123/indigenous-peoples-day-native-americans-wilma-mankiller-cherokee?sc=18&f=1001

Skeletons In The Closet

https://www.npr.org/2021/10/12/1045518876/skeletons-in-the-closet?fireglass_rsn=true#fireglass_params&tabid=a4edbaac716a59ca&start_with_session_counter=3&application_server_address=isolation1-us-east-1.wss.prod.fire.glass

Restoring a National Treasure, Stone by Stone

https://folklife.si.edu/magazine/restoring-a-national-treasure-stone-by-stone?fireglass_rsn=true#fireglass_params&tabid=a7209154f09011e0&start_with_session_counter=3&application_server_address=isolation1-us-east-1.wss.prod.fire.glass

Arts Organizations and Activists Speak Out About Land Stewardship on
Indigenous Peoples’ Day

https://hyperallergic.com/683574/arts-organizations-and-activists-speak-out-about-land-stewardship-on-indigenous-peoples-day/?fireglass_rsn=true#fireglass_params&tabid=ac6a402fb065efe4&start_with_session_counter=3&application_server_address=isolation1-us-east-1.wss.prod.fire.glass

Southlake school leader tells teachers to balance Holocaust books with
'opposing' views

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/southlake-texas-holocaust-books-schools-rcna2965

This statue of Mary McLeod Bethune will soon make history at the U.S.
Capitol

https://www.npr.org/2021/10/14/1045964525/mary-mcleod-bethune-statue-us-capitol-florida-unveiling?sc=18&f=1001

Italian sailors knew of America 150 years before Christopher Columbus, new
analysis of ancient documents suggests

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/10/2110090931

Evidence of people on the Azores archipelago 700 years earlier than thought

https://phys.org/news/2021-10-evidence-people-azores-archipelago-years.html

Secret Rites of Samothrace

https://www.archaeology.org/issues/437-2109/features/9898-greece-samothrace-mystery-cult

Study Suggests Iron Age Miners in Austria Ate Cheese and Beer

https://www.archaeology.org/news/10083-211014-austria-cheese-beer

The Surprising Artistic Life of Ancient Sparta

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/surprising-artistic-life-ancient-sparta-180978756/

Only one in four Western Roman emperors died of natural causes

https://phys.org/news/2021-10-western-roman-emperors-died-natural.html

*Archaeology*

Mongolia's Cave of the Equestrian

https://www.archaeology.org/slideshow/9885-mongolia-cave-of-the-equestrian

GLOBAL HUNT FOR LOOTED TREASURES LEADS TO OFFSHORE TRUSTS

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/2021/met-museum-cambodian-antiquities-latchford/?no_nav=true

2,700-year-old toilet found in Jerusalem was a rare luxury

https://apnews.com/article/science-jerusalem-middle-east-israel-555ddebe8076d1c7c99c384dae08fc78?utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_medium=AP_Oddities&utm_medium=AP&utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR08g0ahllkz3z_Yl--MnQRy30gchgE-qPtq0Ew8RE625esvWgPXfPKRSbQ

Ukrainians unearth hiding places of Jews in city sewers during Nazi
Holocaust

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukrainians-unearth-hiding-places-jews-city-sewers-during-nazi-holocaust-2021-10-05/?utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A+Trending+Content&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=facebook

Viking Fantasy Island

https://www.archaeology.org/issues/439-2109/digs/9921-digs-denmark-hjarno-monuments?fbclid=IwAR1JlfS_e5ZeZyzdYGb-hMkBb-4ckrM-5R9Wh5E4SqXzkpNdYFbUQVMsQI0

'Spirit mirror' used by 16th-century occultist John Dee came from the Aztec
Empire

https://www.livescience.com/john-dee-spirit-mirror-aztec?fbclid=IwAR0uOBBu6xOvZgFAR795-4ZvRKMR5V2_b9qPnU5IdEJ139WIFtmDiCLQ0HQ&utm_campaign=socialflow

Burial that included a racy love goddess inscription held multiple people

https://www.livescience.com/tomb-nestors-cup-multiple-individuals?fbclid=IwAR2IWa9wU3KvjDtmhooOiVb5Kx2FjFmyDn1uHgHM12q3MCGEInCx0T-IrnQ&utm_campaign=socialflow

Biden to restore 3 national monuments cut by Trump

https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-joe-biden-utah-environment-and-nature-b763897fc47136339bd12360a90079c0?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=AP

TWO MNICONJOU LAKOTA SIOUX CHIEF ARTIFACTS RETURNED TO TRIBE

https://ritzherald.com/two-mniconjou-lakota-sioux-chief-artifacts-returned-to-tribe/?fbclid=IwAR2-DADzibs5v-jpdXRONlhttRwqGizrPm9eQ8XCzdn91fkaBIgv2qTWKAM

Massive Byzantine-era winery discovered in Israel

https://www.npr.org/2021/10/11/1045048469/massive-byzantine-era-winery-discovered-in-israel?sc=18&f=1001

Remains of Nazi V2, the first supersonic rocket, unearthed in South East
England

https://www.livescience.com/nazi-rocket-unearthed-england?fbclid=IwAR1YvIJwYwPOawZP513pEPjCpvIFMjXOBl0Y1FdWUEMz2caY0Q1Qoc37oZE&utm_campaign=socialflow&fireglass_rsn=true#fireglass_params&tabid=a55bc205629f7ac2&start_with_session_counter=2&application_server_address=isolation1-us-east-1.wss.prod.fire.glass

Trove of Artifacts, Many Recovered From Abroad, Traces 4,000 Years of
Mexican History

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/mexico-exhibition-showcases-prehispanic-artifacts-recovered-from-abroad-180978801/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=socialmedia&fbclid=IwAR2MlSvcBeLHnDk4p25plXyF2gsvmUTSozWsdRMuwk7GUOL3PlIF6DTpFGg

Man arrested on suspicion of damaging Stonehenge

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-wiltshire-58903052

Gold 'sun bowl' discovered near Bronze Age swamp

https://www.livescience.com/bronze-age-sun-bowl-austria

400 stone-cut chamber tombs, filled with wall paintings and treasures,
discovered in Turkey

https://www.livescience.com/rock-cut-chamber-tombs-turkey

*Egyptology*

Garden statues turn out to be ancient Egyptian relics, selling for $265,000

https://www.cnn.com/style/article/egyptian-statues-intl-scli-scn/index.html?utm_term=link&utm_content=2021-10-12T16%3A30%3A32&utm_medium=social&utm_source=fbCNNi&fbclid=IwAR3pKsJCVQ1t-KKu7O4frcqkwvHzsNo7NMK8MxeaoBPW4w05DKQCtvP0gsE

Ancient Egyptian Tools Used in Worship of the Goddess Hathor Discovered

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/ancient-egyptian-tools-used-in-worship-of-the-goddess-hathor-discovered-180978744/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=socialmedia&fbclid=IwAR0OfBBf3LwRXitXNztf_I2dwjG3L_gJq1sLdwo7QR2rcCofdS1kKp1ODIQ

Egyptians alarmed as government delists protected park

https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2021/10/egyptians-alarmed-government-delists-protected-park?fbclid=IwAR2dak84zsXelQYNhPeFtcl_3-nPJYuuLX0PkhUk6PfFqEvB76BjpkIUxkU#ixzz79H0Q2q5f

3-D Reconstruction Reveals the Faces of Three Ancient Egyptian Mummies

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/3d-reconstruction-ancient-egyptian-mummies-180978786/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=socialmedia&fbclid=IwAR3a9uym8MTChkDdlWUVWLq812HMo6IIM3LWgby7fZ-oAU51D6HLUO6Ymaw

When Isis Was Queen

https://www.archaeology.org/issues/445-2111/features/10053-egypt-philae-temples

*General Science*

Former Pentagon official says China has won artificial intelligence battle

https://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/576213-former-pentagon-official-says-china-has-won-artificial-intelligence?fireglass_rsn=true&rl=1#fireglass_params&tabid=aab59ba6eee870fa&start_with_session_counter=3&application_server_address=isolation1-us-east-1.wss.prod.fire.glass

Machine-learning system accelerates discovery of new materials for 3D
printing

*https://phys.org/news/2021-10-machine-learning-discovery-materials-3d.html
<https://phys.org/news/2021-10-machine-learning-discovery-materials-3d.html>*

*Physics, Earth and Space Sciences*

Rover images confirm Jezero crater is an ancient Martian lake

https://phys.org/news/2021-10-rover-images-jezero-crater-ancient.html?fbclid=IwAR15e1bTHEUNQQ_521tc0JweAsh3MlwT8Smw5ZIjKeJA_mSegHwWi98IV7g

Under the spell of the ice and cold on an Arctic expedition

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/under-the-spell-of-the-ice-and-cold-on-an-arctic-expedition?cmpid=org=ngp::mc=social::src=twitter::cmp=editorial::add=tw20211003ngm-arcticlimitsphotographer&sf250053830=1

Newfound black hole may be the closest to Earth

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/newfound-black-hole-may-be-the-closest-to-earth?cmpid=org=ngp::mc=social::src=twitter::cmp=editorial::add=tw20211004science-resurfclosesmallblackhole&sf250064575=1

How low did it go? Study seeks to settle debate about oxygen in Earth's
early atmosphere

https://phys.org/news/2021-09-debate-oxygen-earth-early-atmosphere.html?fbclid=IwAR0Au724QduQaNCByYmyjWm7tbYJSA2ZTPdxug7ELnAiV8grSFyj0Bq3GoU

Out Of This World Service

https://www.wired.com/sponsored/story/out-of-this-world-service/?utm_source=onsite-share&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=onsite-share&utm_brand=wired

Europe-Japan space mission captures images of Mercury

https://phys.org/news/2021-10-europe-japan-space-mission-captures-images.html?fbclid=IwAR0hVmTB8dxhdG7-vL5S1RDd9DqZMgPegTYemJ3_ktTHwNNksddsWWH8Y8g

5 Amazing Things We’ve Learned a Year After Visiting Pluto

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/pluto-planets-new-horizons-one-year-anniversary-nasa-space-science?cmpid=org=ngp::mc=social::src=twitter::cmp=editorial::add=tw20211005science-smallwondersthreadpluto

Strange interstellar object could be a shard from a dead planet

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/perplexing-interstellar-object-starts-revealing-its-secrets?cmpid=org=ngp::mc=social::src=twitter::cmp=editorial::add=tw20211005science-smallwondersthreadoumuamua

Ladies who launch: Women are powering the private space industry

https://fortune.com/longform/women-space-tourism-industry-rockets-satellites-launches/

After 350 years, astronomers still can’t explain the solar system’s
strangest moon

https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/strange-moon-iapetus/

Simulations suggest an Earth or Mars size planet may be lurking out beyond
Neptune

https://phys.org/news/2021-10-simulations-earth-mars-size-planet.html?fbclid=IwAR0u6pfwqib7bJnsBwt4y2QI09IVEZzrDEDowEpC08twLuuAE-BM1-vGVXw

NASA's DART mission will deliberately crash into an asteroid's moon in the
name of planetary defense

https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/05/world/nasa-dart-asteroid-mission-launch-date-scn/index.html?utm_medium=social&utm_term=link&utm_source=fbCNN&utm_content=2021-10-05T20%3A45%3A10I

Scientist looks to AI, lensing to find masses of free-floating planets

https://phys.org/news/2021-10-scientist-ai-lensing-findmasses-offree-floating.html?fbclid=IwAR1EPZh2Kwb8dN4nG91O2UMc34rcyDEQ1Qd6DUNu9gXjAbXaqf2R7xz5y-Y

Not all Mars spacecraft might need such deep cleaning, scientists find

https://www.space.com/mars-planetary-protection-guidelines-could-loosen?fbclid=IwAR3TH49lFlJuraz7yjWIcfCHEityivgMfVBVzjmRN_wRUlxCaWAvKR5qP8Q&utm_campaign=socialflow

Highly porous rocks are responsible for asteroid Bennu's surprisingly
craggy surface

https://phys.org/news/2021-10-highly-porous-responsible-asteroid-bennu.html?fbclid=IwAR2XebyDvTJGSInJgfSImofNQMzLXf0C2sPGoyMi7gxckKbdhY5s_88HzGk

'Double' galaxy mystifies Hubble astronomers

https://phys.org/news/2021-10-galaxy-mystifies-hubble-astronomers.html?fbclid=IwAR2jUyu8howlecMLlk7XFOKt0JU4PMOxHlJ2ZkIakFzvqpqxnWFuopcCXDw

A magnetic field reversal 42,000 years ago may have contributed to mass
extinctions

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/earth-magnetic-field-reversal-mass-extinctions-environment-crisis?fbclid=IwAR1rD2hV_C9b36lzoWohv_wjLSPvoKG_clB0uDjVdM6PJVSurd5HO65EKLs

Extreme exoplanet even more exotic than originally thought

https://phys.org/news/2021-10-extreme-exoplanet-exotic-thought.html?fbclid=IwAR339S0KGQxo6hy_tbFr9L0CCuATddT9YQFKItylAAGgcLRDzYFdh8Wl-Jo

Mysterious radio waves coming from the heart of the Milky Way baffle
astronomers

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/milky-way-radio-waves-mysery-astronomers/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab6a&linkId=135605086&fbclid=IwAR0lAcz-PsxkG-e4aMERsHfRsLVZu79t4eEjSn1222qtxyBaj6_JseYBkJg

Did a black hole eating a star generate a neutrino? Unlikely, new study
shows

https://phys.org/news/2021-10-black-hole-star-neutrino.html?fbclid=IwAR2wOjv3J7MvuCWg92MusiCldz9Z9CG80lfWcFAlWOYEQ2FZ4fVG-aJPqeI

What if the universe had no beginning?

https://www.livescience.com/universe-had-no-beginning-time?fbclid=IwAR1lT9WY8I7AAKZj-qPWXmew1Hyp48f49mToyNDhJvwgkcCo2wvdsGdsLL8&utm_campaign=socialflow&fireglass_rsn=true#fireglass_params&tabid=a051a489c3597b95&start_with_session_counter=2&application_server_address=isolation1-us-east-1.wss.prod.fire.glass

A crystal ball into our solar system's future

https://phys.org/news/2021-10-crystal-ball-solar-future.html?fbclid=IwAR0uMhQmZyAwDHsq9tk4KlUYjQCHKHbP90lS83SuDZDUxhag1AdpExVC0WM

Researchers realize quantum teleportation onto mechanical motion of silicon
beams

https://phys.org/news/2021-10-quantum-teleportation-mechanical-motion-silicon.html?fbclid=IwAR21gZwAe_h2r43PP1jqdRNB850Icwjjf9vth74GAMY0OO6zz1pV7hJOedI

Snapshot: Martian string of craters

https://astronomy.com/news/2021/10/martian-string-of-craters?utm_source=asyfb&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=asyfb&fbclid=IwAR0Pq4SRUePMGBaVS0JcHjr6aNnNrQ4_uhdnd0dahS1GaWg48Cdvdpa9S9s

Blue Origin Launches William Shatner and Crew to the Final Frontier

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/blue-origin-launches-william-shatner-and-crew-to-the-final-frontier/?fbclid=IwAR2re9DS6i0uv1Yo0joLpmAmT-QhL1V-gYRlQHQzOaKXOBY9hWHBOvjFdJY

Hubble finds evidence of persistent water vapor in one hemisphere of Europa

https://phys.org/news/2021-10-hubble-evidence-persistent-vapor-hemisphere.html?fbclid=IwAR1n27q2VfOh3dNmNrrZfD2lYwG9YEmWDLdR3RXnvY4YXyGRzhfaRk_g4Nk

Scientists find evidence the early solar system harbored a gap between its
inner and outer regions

https://phys.org/news/2021-10-scientists-evidence-early-solar-harbored.html

*Environment, Climate Change and Alternative Energy Sources*

Are floating cities our future?

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20211003-are-floating-cities-our-future

Researchers suggest a way to achieve net-zero emission plastics

https://phys.org/news/2021-10-net-zero-emission-plastics.html?fbclid=IwAR2iKginziX0jXiStbnSLaXG6DaPqqotGAXEc7wbjWlxJA6P-Gs7OhDH6RU

Companies hoping to grow carbon-sucking kelp may be rushing ahead of the
science

https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/09/19/1035889/kelp-carbon-removal-seaweed-sinking-climate-change/?utm_campaign=site_visitor.unpaid.engagement&utm_medium=tr_social&utm_source=Twitter

Can Nuclear Fusion Put the Brakes on Climate Change?

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/10/11/can-nuclear-fusion-put-the-brakes-on-climate-change?utm_medium=social&mbid=social_twitter&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=twitter&utm_brand=tny

A new report shows just how much climate change is killing the world's
coral reefs

https://www.npr.org/2021/10/05/1043372978/global-coral-reef-loss-report-climate-change-warming-oceans?sc=18&f=1043372978

In California, some buy machines that make water out of air

https://apnews.com/article/science-technology-lifestyle-business-california-bf3a376a4a23ab4ac88dfdb834613114?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_medium=AP&utm_source=Facebook

Race against time to save Europe’s largest timber building
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2021/10/race-against-time-save-europes-largest-timber-building?fbclid=IwAR3gOia32zGBSTDg1s5r6SkMEA1PJeCNwy5f4qdqFmXybjLn23ZFNyEUAG4

Melting permafrost in the Arctic could release radioactive waste and awaken
sleeping viruses

https://www.livescience.com/warming-arctic-nuclear-waste-viruses?fbclid=IwAR36xFKYaH6ph0pXRTePia-b9mStkMG0i656mAOK-Ft5diObZKv9M4ULyZM&utm_campaign=socialflow

Catalysts found to convert carbon dioxide to fuel

https://phys.org/news/2021-10-catalysts-carbon-dioxide-fuel.html?fbclid=IwAR2b0y4hpLz1aoDRswO0vCfx4uKGRudSV8hVm0BVozQGvXeVQ_cOpZcM7Js

This Compressed Air Grid 'Battery' Is an Energy Storage Game Changer

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/green-tech/a36300986/compressed-air-grid-energy-storage-system/?utm_campaign=socialflowFBPOP&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social-media&fbclid=IwAR2lnZdAKf1yYDMnPgoJXiX_17D6aYcKNGhUHwY_F1NCY7BKSvGLn6ouRZ0

Our underwater future: What sea level rise will look like around the globe

https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/12/world/3-degrees-sea-level-rise-climate-central/index.html

9 in 10 cars now being sold in Norway are electric or hybrid

https://www.npr.org/2021/10/08/1044330824/norway-electric-vehicle-car-sales-evs?sc=18&f=1001

A woman was given 4 days in jail for getting too close to grizzlies in
Yellowstone

https://www.npr.org/2021/10/10/1044918852/yellowstone-national-park-service-grizzly-bears?sc=18&f=1001

Plant-based jet fuel could reduce emissions by 68%

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/931650

*Biological, Genetics and Medical Sciences*

Hunt for moose bones in the name of science at this national park

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/hunt-for-moose-bones-in-the-name-of-science-in-isle-royale-national-park?cmpid=org=ngp::mc=social::src=twitter::cmp=editorial::add=tw20211002travel-mooseboneshunt&sf250051686=1

Glycerin is safe, effective in psoriasis model

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-glycerin-safe-effective-psoriasis.html?fbclid=IwAR1wO8J5MfXDj_KSbdMbQS-opoFr3dJKxccQomdhg3ks_EGGThqC-r_OXKo

'Trevor's Law' was passed to track cancer clusters. It hasn't happened.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trevors-law-was-passed-track-cancer-clusters-hasnt-happened-rcna2309?cid=mob_npd_nn_azn_mar

Henrietta Lacks' cells led to medical breakthroughs despite her lack of
consent. Now her family is suing a pharmaceutical company.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/10/04/henrietta-lacks-family-sues-thermo-fisher-over-hela-cells-products/5987038001/

A 'pacemaker' for brain activity helped woman emerge from severe depression

https://www.livescience.com/brain-implant-proof-of-concept-depression-treatment?utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_content=livescience&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&fbclid=IwAR1eFb29ck-9QNhyNiwfhKI4iRgTZZWJbz-PrcB2pwayFhhcnbzK--Xyf34

3-D Printed Corneas Help Train Battlefield Surgeons

https://www.scientificamerican.com/custom-media/strengthened-by-science/3-d-printed-corneas-help-train-battlefield-surgeons/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sacm_amedd&utm_content=link-post&fbclid=IwAR1eFb29ck-9QNhyNiwfhKI4iRgTZZWJbz-PrcB2pwayFhhcnbzK--Xyf34

Our DNA is becoming the world's tiniest hard drive

https://phys.org/news/2021-10-dna-world-tiniest-hard.html?fbclid=IwAR03dIT01ZWRlirj9eawKdjxCGNrgt9cIvM73eEtTtzp1PCsrD-IY4g2uNo

Scientists Hail Historic Malaria Vaccine Approval—But Point to Challenges
Ahead

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/scientists-hail-historic-malaria-vaccine-approval-but-point-to-challenges-ahead/?fbclid=IwAR0G2FeVd2NUh0V3Kx2a4cG-XBUIiA0E6aGcNZAbCt0_7Ay1TEJGRN_z8ro

A 'living fossil' alligator gar is found for the first time in a Kansas
river

https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/13/us/alligator-gar-living-fossil-kansas-scn/index.html?utm_source=fbCNNi&utm_medium=social&utm_content=2021-10-14T15%3A01%3A05&utm_term=link&fireglass_rsn=true#fireglass_params&tabid=aa8628a07de58d4f&start_with_session_counter=2&application_server_address=isolation1-us-east-1.wss.prod.fire.glass

Misinformation on stem cell treatments for COVID-19 linked to overhyped
science, researchers argue

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-misinformation-stem-cell-treatments-covid-.html

A new way to prevent COVID-related clots and a biomarker that spots who's
at highest risk

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-10-covid-related-clots-biomarker-highest.html

*Other*

Women in Science: Meet a Mathematician, a Physicist and a Geologist Through
Art

https://www.kqed.org/quest/46334/women-in-science-meet-a-mathematician-a-physicist-and-a-geologist-through-art?fbclid=IwAR0pj6VgTZN7BNBx0JAKCvfhMiAXIjkpNB27nf6KVV3S1LsbDDIkGv9bPaA

What if We Aren’t the First Advanced Civilization on Earth?

https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/what-if-we-arent-the-first-advanced-civilization-on-earth?utm_source=dscfb&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dscfb

Additional Informational

FinCEN Launches Regulatory Process For New Antiquities Regulations

https://www.fincen.gov/news/news-releases/fincen-launches-regulatory-process-new-antiquities-regulations

Transatlantic Museum Conversations: Before, During and After Pandemic Times

https://icom.museum/en/news/transatlantic-museum-conversations/

ADL and L’Oréal USA Partner to Bring Holocaust Education Program to
Thousands of Students Across the U.S.

https://www.adl.org/news/press-releases/adl-and-loreal-usa-partner-to-bring-holocaust-education-program-to-thousands-of

NASA Selects Crew for Simulated Trip to a Mars Moon

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-selects-crew-for-simulated-trip-to-a-mars-moon

Review of Forest and Landscape Restoration in Africa 2021 Report

http://www.fao.org/documents/card/en/c/cb6111en

A world first: Ocean drone captures video from inside a hurricane

https://www.noaa.gov/news-release/world-first-ocean-drone-captures-video-from-inside-hurricane?fbclid=IwAR3Xz-pm6ZHYEt8OAwMK2f0L9kbm8XnWCHcMpvV93I1uZAyGOG0jEgdxVvU

President Biden Nominates Shelly Lowe to Chair the National Endowment for
the Humanities

https://www.neh.gov/news/president-biden-nominates-shelly-lowe-chair-national-endowment-humanities

Museums and Trust 2021 Report

https://www.aam-us.org/2021/09/30/museums-and-trust-2021/?fbclid=IwAR0GaOo_ix8VCim3u6vgWGNhoEXBIT9YP33wawWSSpC8_Dsyjc0ypyhQrag

The Greenland Telescope Project: Studying Black Holes in the Arctic- Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnXwZU8qJTE

NASA's Lucy Mission: A Journey to the Young Solar System

https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/2007/nasas-lucy-mission-a-journey-to-the-young-solar-system/?utm_source=TWITTER&utm_medium=NASASolarSystem&utm_campaign=NASASocial&linkId=134670047

Working Overtime: NASA’s Deep Space Atomic Clock Completes Mission

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/working-overtime-nasas-deep-space-atomic-clock-completes-mission

Art That Connects Us – A Visit with Mentor Artist Fellow Brenda Mallory

https://www.nativeartsandcultures.org/art-that-connects-us

NEH CARES: International Storytelling Center- Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-WlDnmiMrM

Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project

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

Inside The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum’s Virtual Docent
Program

https://www.aam-us.org/wire/jing-culture-and-commerce/inside-the-smithsonian-national-air-and-space-museums-virtual-docent-program/?fbclid=IwAR1BHUPe7MVEhb_V5f8bDExT7M3pUYgtQfEctT2qujFBn1UMsZtgxdEfudQ

The Great Dying: Shall Furnish Medicine Part 1

https://pulitzercenter.org/stories/great-dying-shall-furnish-medicine-part-1

History, the Past, and Public Culture: Results from a National Survey

https://www.historians.org/history-culture-survey?fireglass_rsn=true#fireglass_params&tabid=a673a106a7d17d85&start_with_session_counter=3&application_server_address=isolation1-us-east-1.wss.prod.fire.glass

World Monuments Fund, Sacred Valley of the Incas

https://www.wmf.org/project/sacred-valley-incas?fireglass_rsn=true#fireglass_params&tabid=a7e5eefa67d667ad&start_with_session_counter=3&application_server_address=isolation1-us-east-1.wss.prod.fire.glass

New ICOM Red List to focus on objects from Southeast Europe

https://icom.museum/en/news/new-icom-red-list-to-focus-on-objects-from-southeast-europe/?fireglass_rsn=true#fireglass_params&tabid=aa5188fda360c67d&start_with_session_counter=3&application_server_address=isolation1-us-east-1.wss.prod.fire.glass

Joint Commitment for Climate Action in Cultural Heritage

https://www.iccrom.org/news/joint-commitment-climate-action-cultural-heritage?fireglass_rsn=true#fireglass_params&tabid=a58137b8a761f12f&start_with_session_counter=3&application_server_address=isolation1-us-east-1.wss.prod.fire.glass

New timeline clarifies Indigenous history in Mohawk Valley

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2021/10/new-timeline-clarifies-indigenous-history-mohawk-valley
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