[Jawlist] Weekly Science Report 6-17-22

Fri Jun 17 21:50:03 PDT 2022

*Weekly Science Report*

*June 17, 2022*

*“Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.”*

John F. Kennedy

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*

New dinosaur species used fearsome claws to graze along the coast

https://phys.org/news/2022-05-dinosaur-species-fearsome-claws-graze.html?fbclid=IwAR0EZDFhhQSUbVI_3fD713T-GTWk3sB-buH6-MOXUBjIn4xrglPyeEaRUMs

A 146,000-Year-Old Fossil Dubbed ‘Dragon Man’ Might Be One of Our Closest
Relatives

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/146000-year-old-fossil-dubbed-dragon-man-might-be-one-our-closest-relatives-180978062/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=socialmedia&fbclid=IwAR1GCzKG2CeFGbS_dcc3K4wLDxSwDkoMumGrlSDoXRyTWH2wq5FCTUdlgXU

Tanya Plibersek urged to protect Indigenous rock art up to 50,000 years old
by blocking fertiliser plant

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/jun/07/tanya-plibersek-urged-to-protect-indigenous-rock-art-up-to-50000-year-old-by-blocking-45bn-wa-fertiliser-plant?fireglass_rsn=true#fireglass_params&tabid=ae1a765d0fb31019&start_with_session_counter=3&application_server_address=isolation2-us-east-1.wss.prod.fire.glass

Prehistoric Swiss Army knife indicates early humans communicated

https://phys.org/news/2022-06-prehistoric-swiss-army-knife-early.html?fbclid=IwAR2jA3T5kTY2mXhHpgAmwsXXA4C07fBuxCiOVFFIv-hhALddxdrN3Z22BWc

Race to save undersea Stone Age cave art masterpieces

https://phys.org/news/2022-05-undersea-stone-age-cave-art.html

A new origin story for domesticated chickens starts in rice fields 3,500
years ago

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/chicken-domestication-bones-origin-asia-rice-fields-exotic-animals

Pre-historic Wallacea: A melting pot of human genetic ancestries

https://phys.org/news/2022-06-pre-historic-wallacea-pot-human-genetic.html

Study of the internal vascular system of the skull in American populations
of the late Holocene

https://phys.org/news/2022-06-internal-vascular-skull-american-populations.html

Save the Dates

https://www.archaeology.org/issues/474-2207/digs/10614-digs-radiocarbon-date-survey

Scientists Use AI to Look for Evidence of Early Fire Use in Israel
https://www.archaeology.org/news/10638-220616-israel-fire-flint

Chinese fossils show human middle ear evolved from fish gills

https://phys.org/news/2022-06-chinese-fossils-human-middle-ear.html

*History*

>From the Achaemenids to the Mughals: A look at India's lost Persian history

https://www.middleeasteye.net/discover/india-persian-history-lost-achamenids-mughals?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Social_Traffic&utm_content=ap_3iefbgsuam&fbclid=IwAR0B-CNOaQv6kOqjLOGCOnEkul8y1R-oMqwvbzETpPSs6YBUmcQ2k9p9CRs

Yellowstone renames a mountain after the history of its prior namesake
comes to light

https://www.npr.org/2022/06/11/1104252264/yellowstone-first-peoples-mountain-native-americans?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&fbclid=IwAR07qfK7Ck1d5LtATNv6C9Lpn78rYJXQHLH7F-QVyO5S25Fdy642i1zdhCI

Works of ancient art destroyed at DMA in overnight break-in

https://www.dallasnews.com/arts-entertainment/visual-arts/2022/06/02/5-million-of-ancient-art-destroyed-at-dma-in-overnight-break-in/?fireglass_rsn=true#fireglass_params&tabid=a2fb5b44cecb15c6&start_with_session_counter=3&application_server_address=isolation2-us-east-1.wss.prod.fire.glass

British journalist and Brazilian indigenous affairs expert missing in the
Amazon

https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/06/americas/dom-phillips-brazil-bruno-arajo-pereira-intl-latam/index.html?utm_content=2022-06-07T03%3A30%3A40&utm_source=fbCNN&utm_term=link&utm_medium=social

A new quarter honors Native American leader and activist Wilma Mankiller

https://www.npr.org/2022/06/06/1103058335/new-quarter-honors-native-american-leader-wilma-mankiller?sc=18&f=1001

Investigation launched into Nazi looted art in Dutch parliament

https://nltimes.nl/2022/05/24/investigation-launched-nazi-looted-art-dutch-parliament?fireglass_rsn=true#fireglass_params&tabid=a1d04c311b54bd64&start_with_session_counter=3&application_server_address=isolation2-us-east-1.wss.prod.fire.glass

Newly released doctor’s letters show Adolf Hitler’s fear of illness

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/05/newly-released-doctors-letters-show-adolf-hitlers-fear-of-illness

Lakota elders helped a white man preserve their language. Then he tried to
sell it back to them.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/native-american-language-preservation-rcna31396

Black Death origin mystery solved after 675 years, researchers say

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/black-death-origin-mystery-solved-plague-675-years-researchers-say/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab6a&linkId=169416879

Inside the Effort to Restore Synagogues in Venice’s 500-Year-Old Jewish
Ghetto

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/synagogues-venice-500-year-old-jewish-ghetto-180980259/

Jacksonville is turning 200. But before there was a Jacksonville, these
people were here

https://www.jacksonville.com/story/news/history/2022/06/10/jacksonville-marks-bicentennial-but-these-people-were-here-long-before/7451948001/

Did democracy have a separate origin in the Americas?

https://phys.org/news/2022-06-democracy-americas.html

'Lost tapes' from Chernobyl show the haunting fallout of the nuclear
disaster

https://www.livescience.com/chernobyl-lost-tapes-hbo-trailer

A tabernacle was stolen and an angel statue was beheaded at a Brooklyn
church

https://www.npr.org/2022/05/30/1102090870/2-million-relic-stolen-angel-statue-beheaded-brooklyn-church?sc=18&f=1001

*Archaeology*

Colombia discovers two historical shipwrecks in Caribbean

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/colombia-discovers-two-historical-shipwrecks-caribbean-2022-06-07/?utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A%20Trending%20Content&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR2HzVAY_fy9KpgkwnxIk9OCpJRS7QwBeBFtHM2Dt-IcBvxLzn6qph7eH94

Experts pile pressure on State to protect Kenya's marine heritage

https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/coast/article/2001447062/experts-pile-pressure-on-state-to-protect-kenyas-marine-heritage?fireglass_rsn=true#fireglass_params&tabid=af0d7211a239bc1f&start_with_session_counter=3&application_server_address=isolation2-us-east-1.wss.prod.fire.glass

Documenting destruction: The race to map Ukraine's historic buildings

https://www.france24.com/en/video/20220530-documenting-destruction-the-race-to-map-ukraine-s-historic-buildings?ref=tw&fireglass_rsn=true#fireglass_params&tabid=acccb38d641f7fe1&start_with_session_counter=3&application_server_address=isolation2-us-east-1.wss.prod.fire.glass

Briton given 15 years in Iraqi jail for smuggling antiquities to appeal
verdict

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/06/british-geologist-jailed-iraq-smuggling-artefacts-jim-fitton?CMP=fb_gu&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1654509955

A 3,400-year-old city emerges from the Tigris River

https://phys.org/news/2022-05-year-old-city-emerges-tigris-river.html

Archaeologists discover passageways in 3,000-year-old Peruvian temple

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/archaeologists-discover-passageways-3000-year-old-peruvian-temple-2022-05-30/?utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A+Trending+Content&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=facebook

Broken pieces of rare Viking sword reunited after 1,200 years apart

https://www.livescience.com/rare-viking-sword-discovered-norway

Ancient water conservancy facilities discovered in central China

http://en.people.cn/n3/2022/0612/c90000-10108602.html

Ruins of Maurya-era wall unearthed in Tilaurakot, Kapilvastu
https://kathmandupost.com/province-no-5/2022/06/13/ruins-of-maurya-era-wall-unearthed-in-tilaurakot-kapilvastu

Century-old 'Frozen Charlotte' dolls unearthed in archaeological dig in
Christchurch CBD

https://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/128960881/centuryold-frozen-charlotte-dolls-unearthed-in-archaeological-dig-in-christchurch-cbd

Amphibian 'death pit' filled with 8,000 bones unearthed in Iron Age village

https://www.livescience.com/amphibian-death-pit-iron-age-village

Archeologists unearth Jewish girl’s shoe at site of WWII ghetto bunker

https://www.thefirstnews.com/article/archeologists-unearth-jewish-girls-shoe-at-site-of-wwii-ghetto-bunker-31117

First Falconer

https://www.archaeology.org/issues/466-2205/digs/10490-digs-norway-falconer-figurine

More digging needed to determine whether bones of fallen Waterloo soldiers
were sold as fertilizer

https://phys.org/news/2022-06-bones-fallen-waterloo-soldiers-sold.html

*Egyptology*

Egypt unearths trove of artifacts, 250 mummies in ancient necropolis

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/05/31/egypt-mummies-saqqara-coffins-bronze-antiquities/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR22UivA4NEk0RsURtonVtXzNWzZzfETWnNB3vssStyG1IIfjjvwKEzfXOg

Egypt displays trove of newly discovered ancient artifacts

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/egypt-displays-trove-newly-discovered-ancient-artifacts-rcna31091

Journeys of the Pyramid Builders

https://www.archaeology.org/issues/473-2207/features/10601-egypt-wadi-el-jarf-port-papyri

*General Science*

Fastest Supercomputer to Ever Exist Breaks the 'Exascale' Barrier

https://www.vice.com/en/article/4axgym/fastest-supercomputer-to-ever-exist-breaks-the-exascale-barrier?utm_source=vice_facebook&utm_medium=social&fbclid=IwAR0JrYjs68sru8QBcAwQQTTl9JfEo6AhJlWsMD5CMo3gMN8ps6IK2gHYEvc&fireglass_rsn=true#fireglass_params&tabid=a576d4a1eb7e738c&start_with_session_counter=2&application_server_address=isolation2-us-east-1.wss.prod.fire.glass

Hyundai says it's the first to pilot a large autonomous ship across the
ocean

https://www.engadget.com/hyundai-autonomous-merchant-ship-ocean-voyage-203435454.html

The Google engineer who sees company's AI as 'sentient' thinks a chatbot
has a soul

https://www.npr.org/2022/06/16/1105552435/google-ai-sentient?sc=18&f=1001

New device gets scientists closer to quantum materials breakthrough

https://phys.org/news/2022-06-device-scientists-closer-quantum-materials.html

*Physics, Earth and Space Sciences*

Katya Echazarreta becomes first Mexican-born woman in space

https://www.khou.com/article/news/national/first-ever-mexican-born-woman-in-space-katya-echazarreta/285-a373d344-6783-4ed4-8a3f-154d817b5960?fbclid=IwAR0eIbNbEaTaKUkIe3UJgp8bk9IrpkLaD0ahhrl-F_YZwVZJp61tSS48t-s

The First Privately Funded Killer Asteroid Spotter Is Here

https://www.wired.com/story/the-first-privately-funded-killer-asteroid-spotter-is-here/?fbclid=IwAR1e5wBSCdZQkXTDz6_j95wxIy_MIsW4_IkFWu5Hp5KOs3n6TvsE5E3Nj0c&fireglass_rsn=true#fireglass_params&tabid=ab756f96758f4da5&start_with_session_counter=2&application_server_address=isolation1-us-west-2.wss.prod.fire.glass

James Webb Space Telescope hit by tiny meteoroid

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-61744257

Uncovering a novel way to bring the energy that powers the sun and stars to
Earth

https://phys.org/news/2022-06-uncovering-energy-powers-sun-stars.html?fbclid=IwAR32ooIBOE6-r9FXiYIJ2UQJZapL0cI6oVeb7Hj6U-oZBFIx4byHILHrj0M

House committee questions proposed delay in NASA asteroid mission

https://spacenews.com/house-committee-questions-proposed-delay-in-nasa-asteroid-mission/

James Webb Space Telescope practices tracking an asteroid for the 1st time

https://www.space.com/james-webb-space-telescope-tracks-moving-target

NASA to launch study of unidentified aerial phenomena, or UFOs

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nasa-ufo-study-unidentified-aerial-phenomena-uap/

Scientists announce a breakthrough in determining life's origin on
Earth—and maybe Mars

https://phys.org/news/2022-06-scientists-breakthrough-life-earthand-mars.html

Did NASA find Hell? Scientists brace for first glimpse of world that
constantly burns

https://phys.org/news/2022-06-nasa-hell-scientists-brace-glimpse.html

NASA’s MAVEN Spacecraft Back in Business Following Near-Death Experience

https://gizmodo.com/nasa-maven-mars-spacecraft-1849007541

Chinese scientists call for plan to destroy Elon Musk's Starlink satellites

https://www.livescience.com/china-plans-ways-destroy-starlink

The aliens are all hanging out on Dyson spheres circling white dwarfs,
physicist argues

https://www.livescience.com/aliens-hiding-on-dyson-spheres-around-white-dwarfs

European ‘star survey’ reveals celestial treasure trove

https://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/european-star-survey-reveals-celestial-treasure-trove-rcna33250?cid=sm_npd_nn_fb_ma&fbclid=IwAR27QmxE6_H5WmqygrmHKyewL8Jf5OmlTN0_i_e1aXBAqf9WagIRaRk6nGM&fireglass_rsn=true#fireglass_params&tabid=a99ce249b463ef06&start_with_session_counter=2&application_server_address=isolation2-us-west-2.wss.prod.fire.glass

Astronomers discover a multiplanet system nearby

https://phys.org/news/2022-06-astronomers-multiplanet-nearby.html

Experiment results confirm anomaly suggesting new physics possibility

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/956281

Mysterious 'blue blobs' reveal a new kind of star system

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/956297

Formation and evolution of massive binaries may share the same mechanism in
Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies

https://phys.org/news/2022-06-formation-evolution-massive-binaries-mechanism.html

Grain size of rocks in Earth's mantle affects tectonics

https://phys.org/news/2022-06-grain-size-earth-mantle-affects.html

The quiet life of Messier 94

https://phys.org/news/2022-06-quiet-life-messier.html

Record-Breaking Voyager Spacecraft Begin to Power Down

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/record-breaking-voyager-spacecraft-begin-to-power-down/

Betelgeuse ‘Great Dimming’ Mystery Solved by Satellite Photobomb

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/betelgeuse-lsquo-great-dimming-rsquo-mystery-solved-by-satellite-photobomb/

*Environment, Climate Change and Alternative Energy Sources*

*Artists organize to offer new visions for tackling climate change*

https://theconversation.com/artists-organize-to-offer-new-visions-for-tackling-climate-change-182484

Tidal turbines put a new spin on the power of the ocean

https://www.popsci.com/environment/tidal-turbine-renewable-technology/

Farm in NSW central west given new lease on life after 15,000 trees planted
in shelterbelts

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-06-06/nsw-sheep-farmer-plants-15000-trees-on-property-/101123228?utm_medium=social&utm_content=sf257040262&utm_campaign=fb_abc_news&utm_source=m.facebook.com&sf257040262=1Sent

The energy in nuclear waste could power the U.S. for 100 years, but the
technology was never commercialized

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/02/nuclear-waste-us-could-power-the-us-for-100-years.html

Native American youth to be tapped for conservation projects

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/native-american-youth-to-be-tapped-for-conservation-projects/2022/06/10/cd60a8b0-e8f6-11ec-a422-11bbb91db30b_story.html

*Biological, Genetics and Medical Sciences*

This experimental drug could change the field of cancer research

https://www.npr.org/2022/06/07/1103545361/cancer-drug-experimental-rectal-chemotherapy-surgery-treatment-immunotherapy?sc=18&f=1001

Dolphins Have Different Whistles Based on Their Environment

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/dolphins-have-different-whistles-based-on-their-environment-180980204/

Neuroscientists create maps of the brain after traumatic brain injury

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-06-neuroscientists-brain-traumatic-injury.html

Heart surgery backlog requires urgent action

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-06-heart-surgery-backlog-requires-urgent.html

Neurons and glia collaborate to drive neural regeneration following brain
injury

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-06-neurons-glia-collaborate-neural-regeneration.html

Secret Polar Bear Population Is Found Living in a Seemingly Impossible
Habitat

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/secret-polar-bear-population-is-found-living-in-a-seemingly-impossible-habitat/

*Other*

Navy’s Robotic Orca Submarine Could Be A Gamechanger In The Pacific

https://www.forbes.com/sites/lorenthompson/2022/06/02/navys-robotic-orca-submarine-could-be-a-gamechanger-in-the-pacific/?sh=2bb05ea74d46&utm_medium=social&utm_source=ForbesMainTwitter&utm_campaign=socialflowForbesMainTwitter&fireglass_rsn=true#fireglass_params&tabid=a4719bd72b7ec0ed&start_with_session_counter=3&application_server_address=isolation2-us-east-1.wss.prod.fire.glass

Additional Informational

The Pope at War: The Secret History of Pius XII, Mussolini, and Hitler

https://www.amazon.com/Pope-War-Secret-History-Mussolini/dp/0812989945/ref=sr_1_1?crid=21J7MW2IJ3VKH&keywords=THE+POPE+AT+WAR&qid=1654098936&sprefix=the+pope+at+war%2Caps%2C340&sr=8-1

A Long Way Home for ‘Looted’ Art Is Getting Shorter

https://www.aam-us.org/wire/nytimes/a-long-way-home-for-looted-art-is-getting-shorter/?fireglass_rsn=true#fireglass_params&tabid=a5d58d3fa9de854a&start_with_session_counter=3&application_server_address=isolation2-us-east-1.wss.prod.fire.glass

Secure World Foundation Newsletter, June 2022

https://mailchi.mp/swfound.org/june2022-newsletter-1806655?e=1278109aa1

NASA Moon Mission Set to Break Record in Navigation Signal Test

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2022/nasa-moon-mission-set-to-break-record-in-navigation-signal-test

IMLS Announces New Pilot Survey of American Museums

https://www.imls.gov/news/imls-announces-new-pilot-survey-american-museums

NASA’s DAVINCI Mission To Take the Plunge Through Massive Atmosphere of
Venus

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2022/nasa-s-davinci-mission-to-take-the-plunge-through-massive-atmosphere-of-venus

The Stories of Six Righteous Among the Nations in Auschwitz, Flickers of
Light: Dr. Adelaide Hautval

https://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/righteous-auschwitz/hautval.asp?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=organic-english&utm_campaign=otd&utm_content=hautval

Planetary Defense Exercise Uses Apophis as Hazardous Asteroid Stand-In

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/planetary-defense-exercise-uses-apophis-as-hazardous-asteroid-stand-in

NASA, Partner Establish New Research Group for Mars Sample Return Program

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-partner-establish-new-research-group-for-mars-sample-return-program

Bioarchaeological evidence of one of the earliest Islamic burials in the
Levant

https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-022-03508-4

UNF Archaeology unveils new finds at lost Indigenous town of Sarabay

https://www.unf.edu/newsroom/2022/06/Sarabay.html

'Homo erectus' from Gongwangling could have been the earliest population in
China

https://www.cenieh.es/en/press/news/homo-erectus-gongwangling-could-have-been-earliest-population-china

Clinton Man Indicted for Illegally Excavating Native American Site

https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdmo/pr/clinton-man-indicted-illegally-excavating-native-american-site
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