[Jawlist] Weekly Science Report 12-16-22

Sat Dec 17 18:36:04 PST 2022

*Weekly Science Report*

*December 16, 2022*

*“Right up to the very end, life must be worn gloriously, because until our
last moment the future is what we make it.”*

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

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*

Mysterious ancient humans may have given people of Papua New Guinea an
immune advantage

https://www.science.org/content/article/mysterious-ancient-humans-may-have-given-people-papua-new-guinea-immune-advantage

Homo Sapiens Rediscovered review: Hunting human origin stories

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25634161-200-homo-sapiens-rediscovered-review-hunting-human-origin-stories/

Oldest DNA sheds light on a 2 million-year-old ecosystem that has no modern
parallel

https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/07/world/oldest-dna-sequence-discovered-greenland-scn/index.html?utm_medium=social&utm_content=2022-12-08T01%3A01%3A13&utm_source=fbCNN&utm_term=link

Mammoth problem found with extinction timeline

https://phys.org/news/2022-11-mammoth-problem-extinction-timeline.html

Researchers unveil evolution of paleodiet at Neolithic Qujialing site

https://phys.org/news/2022-11-unveil-evolution-paleodiet-neolithic-qujialing.html

Scientists Find Plaster Copies of Fossil Destroyed by Nazis

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/scientists-find-plaster-copies-of-fossil-destroyed-by-nazis-180981080/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=socialmedia

Ancient skull uncovered in China could be million-year-old Homo erectus

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-04142-0

Scientists Revive 48,500-Year-Old Virus, Setting World Record

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/scientists-revive-48500-year-old-virus-setting-world-record-180981208/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=socialmedia

Fossil discovery in storeroom cupboard shifts origin of modern lizard back
35 million years

https://phys.org/news/2022-12-fossil-discovery-storeroom-cupboard-shifts.html

The Discovery of the Oldest Human Footprints in North America Thrilled
Researchers. It Turns Out They May Not Be So Old

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/oldest-ice-age-human-footprints-new-mexico-not-that-old-2212969

Tiny flakes tell a story of tool use 300,000 years ago

https://phys.org/news/2022-12-tiny-flakes-story-tool-years.html

Scientists discover what was on the menu of the first dinosaurs

https://phys.org/news/2022-12-scientists-menu-dinosaurs.html

*History*

In 2 U.S. cities haunted by race massacres, facing the past is painful and
divisive

https://www.npr.org/2022/12/11/1137090651/elaine-massacre-tulsa-race-riot?sc=18&f=1001

Film depicting landmark Native American case to be shot in Oklahoma

https://kfor.com/news/local/film-depicting-landmark-native-american-case-to-be-shot-in-oklahoma/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_medium=referral

Biden signs Respect for Marriage Act, reflecting his and the country's
evolution

https://www.npr.org/2022/12/13/1142331501/biden-to-sign-respect-for-marriage-act-reflecting-his-and-the-countrys-evolution?sc=18&f=1001

Australia to beef up laws to safeguard Aboriginal heritage

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/australia-sets-out-national-plan-safeguard-aboriginal-heritage-2022-11-23/?fireglass_rsn=true#fireglass_params&tabid=a1a167cfb0a78315&start_with_session_counter=3&application_server_address=isolation2-us-east-1.wss.prod.fire.glass

Unmasking “The Scholar”: The Colorado woman who helped a global art
smuggling operation flourish for decades

https://www.denverpost.com/2022/12/01/emma-bunker-douglas-latchford-cambodian-art-denver-art-museum/?fireglass_rsn=true#fireglass_params&tabid=add8fc5cedd2cdf0&start_with_session_counter=3&application_server_address=isolation2-us-east-1.wss.prod.fire.glass

Bob McGrath, original cast member and 'Sesame Street' legend, dies at 90

https://wjactv.com/news/entertainment/bob-mcgrath-original-cast-member-and-sesame-street-legend-dies-at-90-actor-musician-childrens-author-childhood-show-1969-premiere-neighbor-bob-johnson-final-appearance-2017-sing-along-with-mitch

A Woman’s Name Uncovered in the Margins of a 1,200-Year-Old Medieval
Manuscript Provides a Fresh Clue About Its Real Significance

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/oxford-hodgkinson-medieval-inscription-eadburg-2219709

National Archives releases thousands of JFK assassination records

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/3776939-national-archives-releases-thousands-of-jfk-assassination-records/

Maria Ressa's 'How to Stand Up to a Dictator' is a memoir and manifesto

https://www.npr.org/2022/12/15/1142428212/maria-ressa-new-book-how-to-stand-up-to-a-dictator-a-memoir-and-manifesto?sc=18&f=1001

U.S. Postal Service honors the late civil rights leader Rep. John Lewis
with a stamp

https://www.npr.org/2022/12/14/1142688969/john-lewis-stamp-usps?sc=18&f=1142688969

What Fingerprints Tell Us About Jerusalem’s Ancient Artisans
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what-fingerprints-tell-us-about-jerusalems-ancient-artisans-180981238/

Drought encouraged Attila's Huns to attack the Roman empire, tree rings
suggest

https://phys.org/news/2022-12-drought-attila-huns-roman-empire.html

Assyrian Soft Power

https://www.archaeology.org/issues/489-2211/digs/10899-digs-turkey-assyrian-relief

The Little-Known Story of the First Washington Monument

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-little-known-story-of-the-first-washington-monument-180981268/

Spain’s Oft-Forgotten Nazi Ties

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/spains-oft-forgotten-ties-to-the-nazis-180981304/

*Archaeology*

More than 60 ancient Roman-era graves were discovered in Gaza

https://www.npr.org/2022/12/11/1142146031/ancient-graves-tombs-gaza-discovered?sc=18&f=1001

An Archeological Dig in Michigan Turns Up Some Surprising Artifacts

https://www.scientificamerican.com/video/an-archeological-dig-in-michigan-turns-up-some-surprising-artifacts/

Mass evictions at Angkor Wat leave 10,000 families facing uncertain future

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/nov/29/evictions-cambodia-angkor-wat-unesco-world-heritage-site

Developers Found Graves in the Virginia Woods. Authorities Then Helped
Erase the Historic Black Cemetery.

https://www.propublica.org/article/how-authorities-erased-historic-black-cemetery-virginia

Researchers Crack Secret of 1,400-year-old Inscription From Catacomb in
Israel

https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/2022-11-28/ty-article/researchers-crack-secret-of-1-400-year-old-inscription-from-catacomb-in-israel/00000184-be7c-d53c-a3cf-be7e00e00000

Archaeologists Ask Netflix to Reclassify Graham Hancock’s ‘Unfounded’
Netflix Docuseries ‘Ancient Apocalypse’ as Fiction

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/archaeologists-graham-hancocks-ancient-apocalypse-fiction-2222060

Storm erosion brings 200-year-old shipwreck to the surface of a Florida
beach

https://www.popsci.com/science/daytona-beach-florida-shipwreck/

German archaeological project traces early occupants of Qasr Burqu

https://jordantimes.com/news/local/german-archaeological-project-traces-early-occupants-qasr-burqu

Precise solar observations fed millions in ancient Mexico

https://phys.org/news/2022-12-precise-solar-fed-millions-ancient.html

Early-career archaeologists are pessimistic about future careers

https://phys.org/news/2022-12-early-career-archaeologists-pessimistic-future-careers.html

5,000-year-old 'bog body' found in Denmark may be a human sacrifice victim

https://www.livescience.com/bog-body-human-sacrifice-found-denmark

University of Cambridge to return looted Benin bronzes
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/benin-university-of-cambridge-charity-commission-british-london-b2245453.html

U.K. archaeologists unearth 7th century treasures owned by woman who may
have been Christian religious leader

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/harpole-treasure-7th-century-artifacts-unearthed-uk/

Sr-Nd isotope baseline in Silk Road regions enables archaeological
plant-ash glass provenance

https://phys.org/news/2022-12-sr-nd-isotope-baseline-silk-road.html

Medieval necklace found near Northampton 'internationally important'

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-63860132

Cretan Antiquing

https://www.archaeology.org/issues/489-2211/digs/10890-digs-greece-crete-antiques

Aztec Offerings

https://www.archaeology.org/issues/494-2301/features/11028-mexico-templo-mayor-wood-artifacts

*Egyptology*

Ancient mummy portraits and rare Isis-Aphrodite idol discovered in Egypt

https://www.livescience.com/fayum-mummy-portraits-discovered-ancient-egypt

Who Gets to Tell the Story of Ancient Egypt?

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/who-gets-to-tell-the-story-of-ancient-egypt-180981263/

Egyptian ring featuring 'god of fun' discovered in ancient burial

https://www.livescience.com/gold-jewelry-ancient-egypt-burial

Magical Mystery Door

https://www.archaeology.org/issues/488-2211/features/10882-egypt-stela-false-door

*General Science*

Nothing to report

*Physics, Earth and Space Sciences*   China’s new space station opens for
business in an increasingly competitive era of space activity
https://theconversation.com/chinas-new-space-station-opens-for-business-in-an-increasingly-competitive-era-of-space-activity-195882

Six Nations Meet to Discuss Space Security

*https://www.hstoday.us/subject-matter-areas/emergency-preparedness/six-nations-meet-to-discuss-space-security/
<https://www.hstoday.us/subject-matter-areas/emergency-preparedness/six-nations-meet-to-discuss-space-security/>*

NASA's Artemis I returns from the moon with hopes to get astronauts back
there soon

https://www.npr.org/2022/12/11/1141946917/nasa-artemis-splashdown-moon-mission?sc=18&f=1001

The Dead Sea is dying. These beautiful, ominous photos show the impact

https://www.npr.org/sections/pictureshow/2022/12/11/1139524126/photos-dead-sea-water-level-dropping-sinkholes-erosion?sc=18&f=1001

Construction starts on the world’s biggest radio telescope, which will
‘hear’ signals billions of light-years away

https://www.popsci.com/technology/radio-telescope-australia/?utm_campaign=trueanthem_AI&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_term=popularscience

Alberta researchers identify new minerals from meteorite found in Somalia

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-researchers-identify-new-minerals-from-meteorite-found-in-somalia-1.6675305

Artemis I’s solar panels harvested a lot more energy than expected

https://www.popsci.com/science/artemis-solar-panels/?utm_campaign=trueanthem_AI&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_term=popularscience

Japanese astronaut keeps International Space Station mission amid research
scandal

https://www.space.com/japanese-astronaut-international-space-station-mission-research

Hundreds report seeing a bright fireball in northeastern U.S.

https://www.space.com/hundreds-report-bright-meteor-northeastern-us

Space Startup Wants to Build a Manufacturing Platform in Low Earth Orbit

https://gizmodo.com/space-space-junk-think-orbit-think-platform-1849887942?utm_campaign=Gizmodo&utm_content=Giz-+Space&utm_medium=SocialMarketing&utm_source=facebook

Io volcano world comes into view of Juno probe

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-63982190

Webb Space Telescope reveals previously shrouded newborn stars

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/974763

Team of physicists suggests LIGO could be used to detect giant alien
spacecraft

https://phys.org/news/2022-12-team-physicists-ligo-giant-alien.html

Astronomers may have uncovered how galaxies change their shape

https://phys.org/news/2022-12-astronomers-uncovered-galaxies.html

*Environment, Climate Change and Alternative Energy Sources*

In a Major Breakthrough, Nuclear Fusion Just Produced Net Energy Gain for
the First Time

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/a42230285/nuclear-fusion-ignition-achieved/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social-media&utm_campaign=socialflowFBPOP&fbclid=IwAR2KtuFJE9GEeBnKmuKH6R2w0Zf0kipWGjSUc-W4rv0Ntvqm8ZsSKRj9Axs

Fight to curb food waste increasingly turns to science

https://apnews.com/article/business-climate-and-environment-df1114de488c2d48836f538591ec9de2

Salt Lake City’s efforts to fight pollution face a new challenge: Toxic dust

https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/salt-lake-citys-efforts-fight-pollution-face-new-challenge-toxic-dust-rcna44508

Sale jumpstarts floating, offshore wind power in U.S. waters

https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/sale-jumpstarts-floating-offshore-wind-power-us-waters-rcna60230

Rare good news from the Amazon: Gigantic fish are thriving again

https://www.npr.org/2022/12/07/1139978552/brazil-amazon-fish-pirarucu-conservation?sc=18&f=1001

A New NASA Satellite Will Map Earth’s Rising Seas

https://www.wired.com/story/a-new-nasa-satellite-will-map-earths-rising-seas/?bxid=5bd6790424c17c1048020acb&cndid=41291302&esrc=twitter-newsletter-c&mbid=mbid%3DCRMWIR012019%0A%0A&source=EDT_WIR_NEWSLETTER_0_DAILY_ZZ&utm_brand=wired&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_content=WIR_Daily_121522&utm_mailing=WIR_Daily_121522&utm_medium=email&utm_source=nl&utm_term=P7

Model shows extinction cascades caused by land use and climate change will
wipe out more than 25% of world biodiversity
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-extinction-cascades-climate-world-biodiversity.html

*Biological, Genetics and Medical Sciences*

CRISPR gene-editing may boost cancer immunotherapy, new study finds
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/12/13/1140384354/crispr-improves-cancer-immunotherapy-car-t-cell

New immune therapy for advanced melanoma offers hope for hard-to-treat
disease

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/cancer/melanoma-new-immunotherapy-cancer-treatment-rcna60468

Researchers develop nano-based technology to fight osteoporosis

https://phys.org/news/2022-12-nano-based-technology-osteoporosis.html

New technique to make complex molecules for antibiotics and anti-fungal
medicines

https://phys.org/news/2022-12-technique-complex-molecules-antibiotics-anti-fungal.html

*Other*

A peculiar protected structure links Viking knots with quantum vortices

https://phys.org/news/2022-12-peculiar-links-viking-quantum-vortices.html

Additional Informational

Robotic cubes shapeshift in outer space

https://news.mit.edu/2022/robotic-cubes-electrovoxels-shapeshift-outer-space-0223?fbclid=IwAR2z-0DU4khPmGieAkbHWH5MobeLOZzdQK03VZ2uUjBPCIU4oEGnCfNgg_8

Indigenous fire management and cross-scale fire-climate relationships in
the Southwest United States from 1500 to 1900 CE

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abq3221?fireglass_rsn=true#fireglass_params&tabid=af14cc99959c8782&start_with_session_counter=3&application_server_address=isolation1-us-west-2.wss.prod.fire.glass

NASA's Perseverance Rover Investigates Intriguing Martian Bedrock

https://mars.nasa.gov/news/9304/nasas-perseverance-rover-investigates-intriguing-martian-bedrock/?utm_source=iContact&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nasas-mars-public-engagement-team&utm_content=20221208_MarsNewsletter

Preserving an ancient culture under threat from genocide

https://www.chathamhouse.org/publications/the-world-today/2022-12/preserving-ancient-culture-under-threat-genocide?fireglass_rsn=true#fireglass_params&tabid=adf255548aaa03eb&start_with_session_counter=3&application_server_address=isolation2-us-east-1.wss.prod.fire.glass

Ashoka and the Maurya Dynasty: The History and Legacy of Ancient India’s
Greatest Empire (Dynasties)

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1789145961?ref=em_1p_0_ti&ref_=pe_2313400_688285840

National Park Service announces new American World War II Heritage Cities

https://www.nps.gov/orgs/1207/national-park-service-announces-new-american-world-war-ii-heritage-cities.htm

Widespread glasses generated by cometary fireballs during the late
Pleistocene in the Atacama Desert, Chile

https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/article/50/2/205/609354/Widespread-glasses-generated-by-cometary-fireballs?fbclid=IwAR3LMmaFeJQKzfDbhUg_VasrdMOwHRwnnDP7Bk0oNDcjAzOCecnylVe0jcc

4000-year-old hair from the Middle Nile highlights unusual ancient DNA
degradation pattern and a potential source of early eastern Africa
pastoralists

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-25384-y

Unlocking the organic residues preserved in the corrosion from the Pewsey
Hoard vessels

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-24400-5
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