[Jawlist] Weekly Science Report 7-11-25

Sat Jul 12 21:00:32 PDT 2025

*Weekly Science Report*

*July 11, 2025*

*“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the
world.”*

Nelson Mandela

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*

The ‘Great Dying’ wiped out 90% of life, then came 5 million years of
lethal heat. New fossils explain why

https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/02/climate/great-dying-extinction-tipping-point-tropical-forests

Early humans used ochre for advanced toolmaking at Blombos Cave, study finds

https://archaeologymag.com/2025/07/early-humans-used-ochre-for-advanced-toolmaking/

125,000-year-old 'fat factory' run by Neanderthals discovered in Germany

https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/human-evolution/125-000-year-old-fat-factory-run-by-neanderthals-discovered-in-germany

Study reveals the surprising and twisty path our ancestors took to develop
an upright stance

https://phys.org/news/2025-06-reveals-twisty-path-ancestors-upright.html#google_vignette

New Species of Permian Pareiasaur Found in China Unlocks Secrets of Ancient
Earth’s Herbivores!

https://indiandefencereview.com/new-species-of-permian-pareiasaur-in-china/

Human Fishing Reshaped Caribbean Reef Food Webs, 7,000-Year-Old Exposed
Fossilized Reefs Reveal

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/smithsonian-tropical-research-institute/2025/07/01/human-fishing-reshaped-caribbean-reef-food-webs-7000-year-old-exposed-fossilized-reefs-reveal/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=98054053

Scientists Built a Canoe Using Only Prehistoric Tools. Then They Sailed the
Dangerous 140-Mile Route Early Humans Traveled 30,000 Years Ago

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/scientists-built-a-canoe-using-only-prehistoric-tools-then-they-sailed-the-dangerous-140-mile-route-early-humans-traveled-30000-years-ago-180986900/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=98054053

200 million year-old flying reptile species found

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqx2zzn53pqo

Giant Sloths and Many Other Massive Creatures Were Once Common on Our
Planet. With Environmental Changes, Such Giants Could Thrive Again

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/giant-sloths-and-many-other-massive-creatures-were-once-common-on-our-planet-with-environmental-changes-such-giants-could-thrive-again-180986941/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=98054053

They paved paradise and found dinosaur bones in the parking lot

https://www.rmpbs.org/blogs/science-environment/dmns-dinosaur-bones-parking-lot

A Massive Underwater Fossil Find Includes Remains From Ancient Human
Ancestors

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a-massive-underwater-fossil-find-includes-remains-from-ancient-human-ancestors-180986957/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=98054053

Genomic study reveals deep roots of human survival and adaptation in
Himalayas

https://phys.org/news/2025-07-genomic-reveals-deep-roots-human.html

‘People can change their minds’: the evolutionary biologist with a dramatic
story of her own

https://observer.co.uk/news/science-technology/article/people-can-change-their-minds-the-evolutionary-biologist-with-a-dramatic-story-of-her-own?fbclid=IwY2xjawLXcB1leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHmZhnFu1917iQHQVF-H0MTmXmXd-bvzlmgtCwk1nSs2dtGq_mztXsZ3b7wex_aem_GFoFoqo1c3iyqH2pCdytyA&sfnsn=mo

The Cambrian Explosion Happened 15 Million Years Earlier Than We Thought

https://dailygalaxy.com/2025/07/cambrian-explosion-15-million-years-earlier/#google_vignette

INGENIOUS NEANDERTHAL BONE TOOL FOUND IN BELGIAN CAVE

https://archaeology.org/news/2025/07/11/ingenious-neanderthal-bone-tool-found-in-belgian-cave/

Neanderthal DNA may refute 65,000-year-old date for human occupation in
Australia, but not all experts are convinced

https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/human-evolution/neanderthal-dna-may-refute-65-000-year-old-date-for-human-occupation-in-australia-but-not-all-experts-are-convinced

Oldest wooden tools unearthed in East Asia show that ancient humans made
planned trips to dig up edible plants

https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/human-evolution/oldest-wooden-tools-unearthed-in-east-asia-show-that-ancient-humans-made-planned-trips-to-dig-up-edible-plants

Sonar survey confirms mastodon carving at 9,000-year-old Lake Michigan’s
‘Underwater Stonehenge’

https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-860220

New analysis of the Skhūl I skull: One of the oldest human burials in the
world
https://phys.org/news/2025-07-analysis-skhl-skull-oldest-human.html   Stone
Age hunter–gatherers traveled long distances to get the right color stone
for their tools
https://phys.org/news/2025-07-stone-age-huntergatherers-distances-tools.html

*History*

How a Deadly Circus Fire on the ‘Day the Clowns Cried’ Traumatized a
Community—and Led to Lasting Safety Reforms

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-a-deadly-circus-fire-on-the-day-the-clowns-cried-traumatized-a-community-and-led-to-lasting-safety-reforms-180986888/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=98054053

A Rare Copy of the 13th Amendment Signed by Abraham Lincoln Sells for a
Record $13.7 Million

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a-rare-copy-of-the-13th-amendment-signed-by-abraham-lincoln-sells-for-a-record-13-7-million-180986917/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=98054053

Why the Ancient Craft of Dry Stone Walling Still Holds So Much Appeal in
the 21st Century

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/ancient-craft-dry-stone-walling-still-holds-appeal-21st-century-180986807/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=98054053

Do American Indians Celebrate the Fourth of July?

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/national-museum-american-indian/2020/07/01/do-american-indians-celebrate-4th-july/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=98054053

80 years later, a Holocaust survivor meets an American soldier who helped
free him

https://www.npr.org/2025/06/30/nx-s1-5423692/world-war-ii-reunion-holocaust-liberation-buchenwald-nazis

How Women in New Jersey Gained—and Lost—the Right to Vote More Than a
Century Before the 19th Amendment Granted Suffrage Nationwide

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-women-in-new-jersey-gained-and-lostthe-right-to-vote-more-than-a-century-before-the-19th-amendment-granted-suffrage-nationwide-180986930/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=98054053

Stolen Historic Documents Surface in Attic—Ten Years After an Employee Used
Them as Collateral to Borrow Money

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/stolen-historic-documents-surface-in-attic-ten-years-after-an-employee-used-them-as-collateral-to-borrow-money-180986965/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=98054053

Seven Mysteries You Can Explore in America’s National Parks

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/seven-mysteries-you-can-explore-in-americas-national-parks-180986963/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=98054053

The 230-Foot-Long Bayeux Tapestry Is Returning Home to England for the
First Time in Nearly 1,000 Years

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/the-230-foot-long-bayeux-tapestry-is-returning-home-to-england-for-the-first-time-in-nearly-1000-years-180986961/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=98054053

These Medieval Monks Scribbled Notes in the Margins of Their Books More
Than 1,000 Years Ago

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/these-medieval-monks-scribbled-notes-in-the-margins-of-their-books-more-than-1000-years-ago-180986877/?utm_source=smithsonian-weekender&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=98054053

Radiocarbon dating reveals Rapa Nui not as isolated as previously thought

https://phys.org/news/2025-06-radiocarbon-dating-reveals-rapa-nui.html#google_vignette

DNA study: Modern Jews and Arabs retain more than half their ancestry from
Bronze Age ‘Canaanites’

https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-860458#google_vignette

*Archaeology*

Four Bewildering Bronze Lions’ Heads with Slightly Different Facial
Expressions Found in Ancient Roman Grave in Israel

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/four-bewildering-bronze-lions-heads-with-slightly-different-facial-expressions-found-in-ancient-roman-grave-in-israel-180986922/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=98054053

Fishermen in the Brazilian Amazon Discover Enormous Funerary Urns Beneath a
Toppled Tree

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/fishermen-in-the-brazilian-amazon-discover-enormous-funerary-urns-beneath-a-toppled-tree-180986926/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=98054053

Megalithic Stone Monuments in France May Be Europe's Oldest

https://archaeology.org/news/2025/07/01/megalithic-stone-monuments-in-france-may-be-europes-oldest/

This Young Woman With a Cone-Shaped Skull Died After Suffering a Severe
Head Wound 6,000 Years Ago

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/this-young-woman-with-a-cone-shaped-skull-died-after-suffering-a-severe-head-wound-6000-years-ago-180986894/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=98054053

Archaeologists Unearth Ancient Clay Puppets With Open Mouths and Detachable
Heads That ‘Resemble Modern Toy Dolls’

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-unearth-ancient-clay-puppets-with-open-mouths-and-detachable-heads-that-resemble-modern-toy-dolls-180986173/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=98054053

Archaeologists unveil 3,500-year-old city in Peru

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c07dmx38kyeo

Archaeologists Discover Roman Army Camp in the Netherlands—15 Miles Beyond
the Empire’s Northern Border

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-discover-roman-army-camp-in-the-netherlands-15-miles-beyond-the-empires-northern-border-180986910/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=98054053

Archaeologists Unearth Treasure-Filled Tomb Belonging to the First Known
Ruler of a Maya City in Belize

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-unearth-treasure-filled-tomb-belonging-to-the-first-known-ruler-of-a-maya-city-in-belize-180986972/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=98054053

How Underwater Archaeology Brings Secrets to the Surface, From Lost
Shipwrecks to Submerged Cities

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-underwater-archaeology-brings-secrets-to-the-surface-from-lost-shipwrecks-to-submerged-cities-180986950/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=98054053

Archaeologists Unearth Traces of an Iron Age Settlement and Roman Villa in
England

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-unearth-traces-of-an-iron-age-settlement-and-roman-villa-in-england-180986943/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=98054053

Long-Lost Treasures Emerge From Lake During Hurricane Helene Recovery
Efforts in North Carolina

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/long-lost-treasures-emerge-from-lake-during-hurricane-helene-recovery-efforts-in-north-carolina-180986870/?utm_source=smithsonian-weekender&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=98054053

Gas Workers Digging Beneath the Streets of Lima Stumble Upon 1,000-Year-Old
Mummy With Dark Brown Hair

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/gas-workers-digging-beneath-the-streets-of-lima-stumble-upon-1000-year-old-mummy-with-dark-brown-hair-180986924/?utm_source=smithsonian-weekender&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=98054053

Ancient Babylonian Hymn, Overflowing With Praise, Resurfaces After Millennia

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/babylonian-hymn-resurfaces-ai-2664269?utm_campaign=artnet-news&utm_content=1751910905&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwY2xjawLZXZ5leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHloE_uzxutMCyaIWTHpfZ_SCSrnmyUJhdYM05In7VCX6KkYylBYL1jVHQoal_aem_YlbojivLQJ3UKuJ8P-YkaQ&sfnsn=mo

NEW DISCOVERIES FROM FAMED ANTIKYTHERA SHIPWRECK

https://archaeology.org/news/2025/07/11/new-discoveries-from-famed-antikythera-shipwreck/

Cypro-Minoan script on Tel Dor lagoon anchor reveals 11th-century trade
routes

https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-859581#google_vignette

New sonar scans reignite legend of ‘Krishna’s sunken kingdom’ off Dwarka

https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-860211

Sirius Rising: The mystery of Canary Island churches pointing to the Dog
Star
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-860456
*Egyptology*

Archaeologists Discover Tomb of Unknown Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-discover-tomb-unknown-ancient-egyptian-pharaoh-180986292/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=98054053

The first genome sequenced from ancient Egypt reveals surprising ancestry,
scientists say

https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/02/science/ancient-egyptian-genome-sequenced?Date=20250703&Profile=CNN,CNN+International&utm_content=1751549168&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwY2xjawLUQKxleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHhU8w3BBgwuCuf4wHXaWHoYRSutVokzc_uxQ2ERQEixjqxzobFs5pEb-Vw-Y_aem_3FCqnePRn4tSG2m1TWInQw&sfnsn=mo

This Museum Is Asking Visitors Whether It Should Continue to Display
Mummified Human Remains

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/this-museum-is-asking-visitors-whether-it-should-continue-to-display-mummified-human-remains-180986942/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=98054053

Rock art hints at the origins of Egyptian kings

https://phys.org/news/2025-07-art-hints-egyptian-kings.html

Lighthouse of Alexandria 80-ton blocks lifted from seabed in massive
undertaking

https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-859718

Ancient inscriptions reveal identity of Great Pyramid builders

https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeology-around-the-world/article-860097#google_vignette

*General Science*

‘Science Fair’ of Lost Research Protests Trump Cuts
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/science-fair-of-lost-research-protests-trump-cuts/?utm_campaign=sprinklr&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook

Animal-inspired AI robot learns to navigate unfamiliar terrain
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1090595

*Physics, Earth and Space Sciences*   NASA detects new planet with
temperatures that suggest habitable conditions

https://abcnews.go.com/International/nasa-detects-new-planet-temperatures-suggest-habitable-conditions/story?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dhfacebook&utm_content=app.dashsocial.com/abcnews/library/media/549815790&id=123409675

Astronomers spot 'interstellar object' speeding through solar system

https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/astronomers-spot-interstellar-object-speeding-solar-system/story?id=123448499

Scientists Shed Light on the Mysterious ‘Cold Blob’ in the North Atlantic
Amid a Search for Its Cause

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/scientists-shed-light-on-the-mysterious-cold-blob-in-the-north-atlantic-amid-a-search-for-its-cause-180986923/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=98054053

With Space Junk on the Rise, Is a Catastrophic Event Inevitable?

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/with-space-junk-on-the-rise-is-a-catastrophic-event-inevitable-180986907/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=98054053

NASA Looking at Organizational Change Amid Workforce and Budget Cutbacks

https://spacepolicyonline.com/news/nasa-looking-at-organizational-change-amid-workforce-and-budget-cutbacks/

Rare daytime fireball bright enough to be seen from orbit may have punched
a hole in a house in Georgia

https://www.space.com/stargazing/rare-daytime-fireball-bright-enough-to-be-seen-from-orbit-may-have-punched-a-hole-in-a-house-in-georgia

SpaceX launches advanced European weather satellite, lands rocket at sea

https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/spacex-launches-advanced-european-weather-satellite-mtg-s1-lands-rocket-at-sea-photos

See Dual Naked-Eye Novae, a Rare Cosmic Coincidence

https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/observing-news/see-dual-naked-eye-novae-a-rare-cosmic-coincidence/#google_vignette

'This is the holy grail of theoretical physics.' Is the key to quantum
gravity hiding in this new way to make black holes?

https://www.space.com/astronomy/black-holes/this-is-the-holy-grail-of-theoretical-physics-is-the-key-to-quantum-gravity-hiding-in-this-new-way-to-make-black-holes

As light pollution increases, West Texas works to protect the world's
largest 'dark sky reserve'

https://www.npr.org/2025/07/01/nx-s1-5398493/light-pollution-west-texas-dark-sky-reserve-observatory-stars-galaxies-constelations

The Oceans on Enceladus Are Highly Alkaline

https://www.universetoday.com/articles/the-oceans-on-enceladus-are-highly-alkaline

Was ancient Mars habitable? NASA's Perseverance rover is grinding into a
'weird, uncooperative' rock to find out

https://www.space.com/space-exploration/mars-rovers/was-ancient-mars-habitable-nasas-perseverance-rover-is-grinding-into-a-weird-uncooperative-rock-to-find-out

Dark dwarfs lurking at the center of our galaxy might hint at the nature of
dark matter

https://phys.org/news/2025-07-dark-dwarfs-lurking-center-galaxy.html

Robert Goddard Was All Business in Launching His Rocket Career

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/air-space-museum/2025/07/07/a-rocketeers-simple-but-effective-tools/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=98054053

Astronomers find a star that exploded twice

https://www.astronomy.com/science/astronomers-find-a-star-that-exploded-twice/

Echoes from the Big Bang suggest Earth is trapped inside a giant cosmic
void, scientists claim

https://www.livescience.com/space/cosmology/echoes-from-the-big-bang-suggest-earth-is-trapped-inside-a-giant-cosmic-void-scientists-claim

Did you feel it? Earth just had one of its shortest days ever and 2 more
are coming

https://www.space.com/astronomy/earth/did-you-feel-it-earth-just-had-one-of-its-shortest-days-ever-and-2-more-are-coming

Private Ax-4 astronauts aboard ISS are filling their time with science,
views of Earth and pierogis

https://www.space.com/space-exploration/private-spaceflight/private-ax-4-astronauts-aboard-iss-are-filling-their-time-with-science-views-of-earth-and-pierogis-video

NASA's asteroid-crash Earth defense tactic has a complication — DART
ejected large boulders into space

https://www.space.com/astronomy/asteroids/nasas-asteroid-crash-earth-defense-tactic-has-a-complication-dart-ejected-large-boulders-into-space

Could NASA's Mars Sample Return be saved? Lockheed Martin proposes $3
billion plan to haul home Red Planet rocks

https://www.space.com/astronomy/mars/could-nasas-mars-sample-return-be-saved-new-usd3-billion-private-plan-would-haul-home-red-planet-rocks-video

A 3-D printed, plastic beaker could help algae grow on Mars

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/bioplastic-algae-plastic-mars-space

Over 2,000 senior staff set to leave NASA under agency push

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/09/nasa-staff-departures-00444674?fbclid=IwY2xjawLfUGpleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHqSemYEoEC6BrTPo5ko2LvEfGs18Q8olEus3-tw7w7l1_iaHCOHYfWg54AXp_aem_4GbV4RS7Yyc4ghAtROxzSA

The James Webb Space Telescope Reveals Its First Direct Image Discovery of
an Exoplanet

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/james-webb-space-telescope-reveals-its-first-direct-image-discovery-of-an-exoplanet-180986886/?utm_source=smithsonian-weekender&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=98054053

Rare snowfall in Atacama Desert forces the world's most powerful radio
telescope into 'survival mode'

https://www.space.com/astronomy/rare-snowfall-in-atacama-desert-forces-the-worlds-most-powerful-radio-telescope-into-survival-mode

NASA Plans To Leave The ISS After 2030 - Here's What Will Come Next

https://www.jalopnik.com/1899780/nasa-abandon-internation-space-station-2030-transition-plan-explained/

NASA's Psyche 16 Mission: A Galactic Gold Rush Awaits!

https://opentools.ai/news/nasas-psyche-16-mission-a-galactic-gold-rush-awaits

Parker Solar Probe captures closest-ever photos of the sun during
record-breaking flight

https://www.livescience.com/space/the-sun/parker-solar-probe-captures-closest-ever-photos-of-the-sun-during-record-breaking-flight

*Environment, Climate Change and Alternative Energy Sources*

These Large, Snake-Like Fish Are Invading the United States—and Authorities
Want You to Kill Them

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/these-large-snake-like-fish-are-invading-the-united-states-and-authorities-want-you-to-kill-them-180986464/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=98054053

$88m pollution-tracking satellite missing in space

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clynre7leyjo

This company wants to be the first to mine the ocean floor, with Trump's
help

https://www.npr.org/2025/06/30/nx-s1-5450336/trump-nickel-cobalt-pacific-ocean-deep-sea-mining-environmental-concerns

Melting glaciers and ice caps could unleash wave of volcanic eruptions,
study says

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/08/climate-crisis-melting-glaciers-ice-caps-volcanic-eruptions-chile-antartica-volcanoes

Wisconsin researchers are working to stop the collapse of the ‘doomsday
glacier’

https://www.wpr.org/news/wisconsin-researchers-working-stop-collapse-doomsday-glacier-arete-initiative

Environmental impact of common pesticides seriously underestimated
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1090394

*Biological, Genetics and Medical Sciences*   These Cod Have Been Shrinking
Dramatically for Decades. Now, Scientists Say They’ve Solved the Mystery

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/these-cod-have-been-shrinking-dramatically-for-decades-now-scientists-say-theyve-solved-the-mystery-180986920/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=98054053

Work begins to create artificial human DNA from scratch

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c6256wpn97ro

Orcas Appear to Be Sharing Their Prey With Humans—but What Does It Mean?

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/orcas-appear-to-be-sharing-their-prey-with-humans-but-what-does-it-mean-180986913/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=98054053

How an Ancestral Peruvian Ceremony Is Saving the Once-Endangered Vicuña

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/how-an-ancestral-peruvian-ceremony-is-saving-the-once-endangered-vicuna-180986933/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=98054053

These ‘Weird’ Sea Spiders Don’t Have Abdomens—and Instead Store Organs in
Their Legs. With DNA, Scientists Are Learning Why

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/these-weird-sea-spiders-dont-have-abdomens-and-instead-store-organs-in-their-legs-with-dna-scientists-are-learning-why-180986934/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=98054053

Meet the Scientist Who Discovered a New Genus of Curious Catfish Hiding in
Colombia’s Most Endangered River

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/national-museum-of-natural-history/2025/07/09/meet-the-scientist-who-discovered-a-new-genus-of-curious-catfish-hiding-in-colombias-most-endangered-river/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=98054053

Something Strange Is Happening to Tomatoes Growing on the Galápagos Islands

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/something-strange-is-happening-to-tomatoes-growing-on-the-galapagos-islands-180986956/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=98054053

*Other*

US teen influencer detained in Antarctica while attempting solo flight to 7
continents

https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/02/americas/us-teen-ethan-guo-solo-flight-antarctica-chile-detained-intl-latam

The Louvre Invited 100 Contemporary Artists to Copy—and Reinterpret—Its
Masterpieces. Here’s What They Made

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/the-louvre-invited-100-contemporary-artists-to-copy-and-reinterpret-its-masterpieces-heres-what-they-made-180986881/?utm_source=smithsonian-weekender&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=98054053

Additional Informational

Whole-genome ancestry of an Old Kingdom Egyptian

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09195-5?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=organic_social&utm_content=null&utm_campaign=CONR_JRNLS_AWA1_GL_PCOM_SMEDA_NATUREPORTFOLIO&fbclid=IwY2xjawLUIL9leHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFIM2tERFZCM2NqQ3V6QnJ1AR7C_2zgyCSgVzmNImfRhTLTavhJfWdobNJ6BMeDkr0lZ4k1pltj--Z-bhLAkQ_aem_M--q_0qakjuvpZsURUGhWw

The influence of passing field stars on the solar system’s dynamical future

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0019103525001794

NASA Mars Orbiter Learns New Moves After Nearly 20 Years in Space

https://www.nasa.gov/missions/mars-reconnaissance-orbiter/nasa-mars-orbiter-learns-new-moves-after-nearly-20-years-in-space/

NASA Missions Help Explain, Predict Severity of Solar Storms

https://science.nasa.gov/science-research/heliophysics/nasa-missions-help-explain-predict-severity-of-solar-storms/

A foundation model to predict and capture human cognition

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09215-4

How NASA’s SPHEREx Mission Will Share Its All-Sky Map With the World

https://science.nasa.gov/open-science/spherex-universe-map/

Carbonate formation and fluctuating habitability on Mars

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09161-1

A Cosmic Explosion Over Siberia

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/154488/a-cosmic-explosion-over-siberia

NASA, Comet 3I/ATLAS

https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/comets/3i-atlas/

The Forever Promise Project Receives Critical Support from Bank of America

https://www.monumentsmenandwomenfnd.org/post/the-forever-promise-project-receives-critical-support-from-bank-of-america

SAY NO TO A DARK AGE OF NASA SCIENCE

https://www.planetary.org/save-nasa-science?utm_campaign=downlink&utm_medium=email&utm_source=20250711&s_src=downlink&s_subsrc=20250711

Clingy planets can trigger own doom, suspect Cheops and TESS

https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Cheops/Clingy_planets_can_trigger_own_doom_suspect_Cheops_and_TESS

Looting, Loss, and Justice—How Documentary Films Are Driving Global Action
for Cultural Heritage

https://theantiquitiescoalition.org/looting-loss-and-justice-how-documentary-films-are-driving-global-action-for-cultural-heritage/

Eighteen million years of diverse enamel proteomes from the East African
Rift

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09040-9

WHOI Ocean Insights Newsletter

https://explore.whoi.edu/how-can-whale-poop-safeguard-human-health?ecid=ACsprvsGu6bEWlzjGMbz1FNKYQxui6UY9ocyqtmkYbgUHlCOk-n1f-Ho7pNNe8DDzfIeAoxvCpWQ&utm_campaign=6570037-Ocean%20Insights%202025&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8J-nU5eUe99tC2wzxzYr-9ux3F5x0d7K536QzjxsGh0o0I_enQo-jxgeFEwyZbREbu78tVg2qkhN9F6av31QBqd7XrIIKR5LQwvYCetmqriZ3DZCU&_hsmi=370772323&utm_content=370772321&utm_source=hs_email
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