[Jawlist] Weekly Science Report 9-19-25

Sun Sep 21 16:46:16 PDT 2025

*Weekly Science Report*

*September 19, 2025*

“To the people of antiquity Egypt appeared as the very mother of magic”.

Lewis Spence, Egypt

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.

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News Articles

*Paleontology, Evolution and Prehistoric Studies*

Our Human Ancestors Very Nearly Went Extinct 900,000 Years Ago, Genetics
Suggest

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/genetics-suggest-our-human-ancestors-very-nearly-went-extinct-900000-years-ago-180982830/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=98054053

Ancient DNA from Mexico's mammoths reveals unexpected — and unexplained —
genetic mysteries

https://www.livescience.com/animals/extinct-species/ancient-dna-from-mexicos-mammoths-reveals-unexpected-and-unexplained-genetic-mysteries

Africa’s Oldest Mummy Is a Toddler Who Died 5,400 Years Ago, Nearly a
Millennium Before the Egyptians Started Mummifying Their Dead

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/africas-oldest-mummy-is-a-toddler-who-died-5400-years-ago-nearly-a-millennium-before-the-egyptians-started-mummifying-their-dead-180987227/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=98054053

112-Million-Year-Old Amber Samples Preserve a Snapshot of an Ancient Forest

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/112-million-year-old-amber-samples-preserve-a-snapshot-of-an-ancient-forest-from-earths-bygone-supercontinent-180987375/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=98054053

Oldest and most complete fossil of a dome-headed dinosaur is found in
Mongolia

https://www.nbcnews.com/world/asia/oldest-complete-fossil-dome-headed-dinosaur-found-mongolia-rcna232070

Early humans may have walked from Turkey to mainland Europe, research
suggests

https://phys.org/news/2025-09-early-humans-turkey-mainland-europe.html

Kenya’s Turkana people genetically adapted to live in harsh environment,
study suggests

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/sep/19/kenya-turkana-people-genetically-adapted-to-live-in-harsh-environment-study-suggests

Baby Pterosaur Fossils Reveal Mid-Flight Injury and Watery Death, Helping
Solve a Paleontological Mystery

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/baby-pterosaur-fossils-reveal-mid-flight-injury-and-watery-death-helping-solve-a-paleontological-mystery-180987301/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=98054053

45,000-Year-Old Pig Painting in Indonesia May Be Oldest Known Animal Art

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/45000-year-old-pig-painting-indonesia-may-be-oldest-known-animal-art-180976748/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=98054053

Mysterious Craters Discovered on the Bottom of Lake Michigan Could Hold
Lessons About Early Life on Earth

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/mysterious-craters-discovered-on-the-bottom-of-lake-michigan-could-hold-lessons-about-early-life-on-earth-180985258/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=98054053

Evidence of cosmic impact discovered at classic Clovis archaeological sites

https://phys.org/news/2025-09-evidence-cosmic-impact-classic-clovis.html?fbclid=IwdGRzaAM3hSljbGNrAzd_12V4dG4DYWVtAjExAAEeTNO1wqF3-5Q7IQXC-kzUp341FiVPfaWwqpfQp1RYCV4XUVq7z4qPreCHXOU_aem_kNo2jpzU7zC_uXxjhwlyag&sfnsn=mo#google_vignette

Oldest known evidence of human mummification discovered in Asia, scientists
say

https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/15/science/oldest-human-mummification-discovery?Date=20250915&Profile=CNN,CNN+International&utm_content=1757973656&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwdGRzaAM2MUFjbGNrAzYxUmV4dG4DYWVtAjExAAEeptPyu2IoEN2pdnPfVvoFBg0hNBR4HfgpN89ZasogOfDRklDlSIiN-b-XCGA_aem_d6YHPmZBVDqEj5AZi1u3GQ&sfnsn=mo

Scientists Found 7,000-Year-Old Mummies in the Desert That Don’t Share DNA
With Modern Humans

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a67986155/saharan-mummies-dna-humans/

A massive eruption 74,000 years ago affected the whole planet –
archaeologists use volcanic glass to figure out how people survived

https://www.space.com/astronomy/earth/a-massive-eruption-74-000-years-ago-affected-the-whole-planet-archaeologists-use-volcanic-glass-to-figure-out-how-people-survived

17-million-year-old fossil of large extinct songbird discovered in Australia

https://phys.org/news/2025-09-million-year-fossil-large-extinct.html

New Homo naledi evidence supports intentional burial practices

https://phys.org/news/2025-09-homo-naledi-evidence-intentional-burial.html

*History*

Leni Riefenstahl made movies for Hitler. A new documentary digs through her
archives

https://www.npr.org/2025/09/08/nx-s1-5526066/leni-riefenstahl-nazi-filmmaker-new-documentary

One of the world's most sacred places is being turned into a luxury
mega-resort

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c707kx2nk7go

Over 350 Greenlandic women and girls forcibly given contraception by Danish
officials, report says

https://apnews.com/article/denmark-greenland-forced-contraception-inuit-apology-200e5399dab32b2866dd044de489f20e

Curator Rediscovers Tenth-Century ‘Portrait’ of a Viking With an ‘Unusual,
Ornate Hairstyle’

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/curator-rediscovers-tenth-century-portrait-of-a-viking-man-with-an-unusual-ornate-hairstyle-180987283/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=98054053

Activist and Writer Mary Church Terrell Led the Charge for Desegregation

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/smithsonian-american-womens-history-museum/2025/09/11/activist-and-writer-mary-church-terrell-led-the-charge-for-desegregation/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=98054053

Was Venice’s Iconic Winged Lion of St. Mark’s Square Made in Ancient China?

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/was-venices-iconic-winged-lion-of-st-marks-square-made-in-ancient-china-180987302/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=98054053

The Reinvention of George Washington’s Mother, From Paragon of Virtue to
Greedy Shrew to Widow Striving for Independence

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-reinvention-of-george-washingtons-mother-from-paragon-of-virtue-to-greedy-shrew-to-widow-striving-for-independence-180987313/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=98054053

Thieves Steal and Destroy Solid Silver Statue of Abraham Lincoln Created by
Mount Rushmore Sculptor Gutzon Borglum

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/thieves-steal-and-destroy-solid-silver-statue-of-abraham-lincoln-created-by-mount-rushmore-sculptor-gutzon-borglum-180987371/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=98054053

‘A painful legacy’: Native history subject to removal at historic Florida
site

https://ictnews.org/news/a-painful-legacy-native-history-subject-to-removal-at-historic-florida-site/?fbclid=IwdGRzaAM6I-tjbGNrAzokH2V4dG4DYWVtAjExAAEe9mEqI6JM63IqcAbXxlylD-rN6EJZbJJhj1R3W-XOAn8N1vfmnAiErb2ucwo_aem_2-2osTzpj0ClqQ9a79wB3g&sfnsn=mo

How a Deaf Quarterback Changed Sports Forever By Inventing the Huddle

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/deaf-quarterback-changed-sports-forever-inventing-huddle-180987178/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=98054053

The True Story of the Monuments Men

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/true-story-monuments-men-180949569/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=editorial&utm_term=9162025&utm_content=archival-card&fbclid=IwdGRzaAM2rMZjbGNrAzas-mV4dG4DYWVtAjExAAEekkRTsqOS6sQcjSWyt6rO7Xkw5bM9ctXy_1wRF9KWhtBmA23L6hEsAE2P_ZY_aem_t7S4r4Fd5h_nSUvvfR5kbg&sfnsn=mo

Long-Lost Rubens Painting of Jesus Christ’s Crucifixion Discovered in a
Paris Mansion

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/long-lost-rubens-painting-of-jesus-christs-crucifixion-discovered-in-a-paris-mansion-180987337/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=98054053

Before Tuskegee, There Was Riverside Airfield

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/smithsonian-affiliations/2025/09/16/before-tuskegee-there-was-riverside-airfield/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=98054053

Did an Enslaved Chocolatier Help Hercules Mulligan Foil a Plot to
Assassinate George Washington?

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/did-an-enslaved-chocolatier-help-hercules-mulligan-foil-a-plot-to-assassinate-george-washington-180987327/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=98054053

Gold worth $700,000 stolen from Paris' Natural History Museum amid string
of similar heists

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/gold-stolen-from-paris-natural-history-museum/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab6a&linkId=861298817&fbclid=IwdGRzaAM3jZZleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHnNkoS-F4tFVZjRvhfuI1JLKiBnvw_0c92dUJkv1u-TiIkn2RDYMloiaWtDn_aem_UNd004e0rp88hfADKBNF0Q&sfnsn=mo

‘I can’t survive in a house’: Petra’s Bedouin resist moves to evict them
from ancient cave homes

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/20/petra-bedouin-evict-ancient-cave-homes?CMP=fb_gu&utm_medium=Social_img&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwdGRzaAM70MFjbGNrAzvQ9WV4dG4DYWVtAjExAAEeXzRKS62CJP5m_dM4vIt-rJas2LXYyhPZUfUL_bW2qRHKuJNSjQZZhUmlXRI_aem_CTyHwM4FwQ_Qk7hr5MA-Rw&sfnsn=mo#Echobox=1758356584

During the Great Depression, This Black Educator Looked to Conflicts Abroad
for Lessons on Fighting Racism at Home

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/during-the-great-depression-this-black-educator-looked-to-conflicts-abroad-for-lessons-on-fighting-racism-at-home-180987321/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=98054053

New reconstructions show piercing eyes of men who lived 2,500 years ago in
mysterious Indian civilization

https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/new-reconstructions-show-piercing-eyes-of-men-who-lived-2-500-years-ago-in-mysterious-indian-civilization

The newly discovered desert city that's rewriting the history of the
Americas

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20250910-perus-new-city-unearthed-from-the-desert

Iraq's Yazidis rediscover lost history through photos found in a museum
archive

https://phys.org/news/2025-09-iraq-yazidis-rediscover-lost-history.html

Ancient crop discovered in the Canary Islands thanks to archaeological DNA

https://phys.org/news/2025-09-ancient-crop-canary-islands-archaeological.html

Bronze Age and Iron Age cultures in the Middle East were really committed
to wine production, analysis reveals

https://phys.org/news/2025-09-bronze-age-iron-cultures-middle.html

*Archaeology*

Divers Recover Ancient Shipwreck That Sank 2,600 Years Ago Off the Coast of
Spain

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/divers-recover-ancient-shipwreck-that-sank-2600-years-ago-off-the-coast-of-spain-180985778/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=98054053

Bronze Age Britons Threw Massive Ragers With Food and Friends From Far Away

https://gizmodo.com/bronze-age-britons-threw-massive-ragers-with-food-and-friends-from-far-away-2000657029

Divers Find a Well-Preserved Roman Helmet From the Naval Battle That Ended
a Punic War

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/divers-find-a-well-preserved-roman-helmet-from-the-naval-battle-that-ended-a-punic-war-180987318/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=98054053

Archaeologists Uncover Two Nearly Life-Size Statues Carved Into the Wall of
a Tomb in Ancient Pompeii

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-uncover-two-nearly-life-size-statues-carved-into-the-wall-of-a-tomb-in-ancient-pompeii-180986353/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=98054053

Archaeologists in Gaza Rushed to Rescue Thousands of Ancient Artifacts From
an Impending Airstrike

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-in-gaza-rushed-to-rescue-thousands-of-ancient-artifacts-from-an-impending-airstrike-180987363/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=98054053

Archaeologists Say They’ve Pieced Together the Ancient Fragments of the
‘World’s Most Difficult Jigsaw Puzzle’
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-say-theyve-pieced-together-the-ancient-fragments-of-theworlds-most-difficult-jigsaw-puzzle-180986855/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=98054053

Workers Uncover an Underground Chamber Sealed for More Than a Century Near
the National Mall

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/workers-uncover-an-underground-chamber-sealed-for-more-than-a-century-near-the-national-mall-180985018/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=98054053

How an ancient Jewish inscription became a flashpoint between Turkey and
Israel

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/how-ancient-jewish-inscription-became-diplomatic-flashpoint-between-turkey-and-israel?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=Social_Traffic&utm_content=ap_wwwdrzioii

Scientists Finally Uncover the Origin of the Mysterious Bronzetti Figures

https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-finally-uncover-the-origin-of-the-mysterious-bronzetti-figures/

9,000-Year-Old Workshop Yields Insight into West African Toolmaking
Practices

https://archaeology.org/news/2025/09/08/9000-year-old-workshop-yields-insight-into-west-african-toolmaking-practices/

Helmet from Pivotal Ancient Naval Battle Recovered

https://archaeology.org/news/2025/09/09/helmet-from-pivotal-ancient-naval-battle-recovered/

Ancient copper smelting workshop unearthed in South Sinai

https://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/553000/Antiquities/Ancient-Egypt/Ancient-copper-smelting-workshop-unearthed-in-Sout.aspx

1,900-year-old oil lamp that provided 'light in the journey to the
afterlife' found in Roman cemetery in the Netherlands

https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/romans/1-900-year-old-oil-lamp-that-provided-light-in-the-journey-to-the-afterlife-found-in-roman-cemetery-in-the-netherlands

Provenance study shows 19th century looted 'Incan mummy' was actually an
Aymara man

https://phys.org/news/2025-09-provenance-19th-century-looted-incan.html

Objects Linked to Renaissance Pope Unearthed During Subway Construction

https://archaeology.org/news/2025/09/16/objects-linked-to-renaissance-pope-unearthed-during-subway-construction/

'Extremely unusual' discovery of wampum beads in Ferryland believed to be
province's first

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/wampum-beads-discovered-ferryland-nl-1.7622102

Ancient bronze mirrors linked to economic prosperity of early Han Dynasty

https://phys.org/news/2025-09-ancient-bronze-mirrors-linked-economic.html

Archaeologists uncover forgotten Scottish castle thought to have been home
to kings

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/medieval-scottish-castle-found-archaeology-research-b2828338.html?callback=in&code=MDK4YZU4YWMTOTA1YY0ZZWQ2LWJIMZCTYJG1NTBJZWNHYJMZ&state=c0fc8ebeb6644ddebc233f48efd47e6a

Bronze Age monument discovered on Oileán Acla in Co Mayo

https://www.rte.ie/news/connacht/2025/0917/1533823-bronze-age-stones-achill/

1,600-year-old coin hoard found in complex tunnel system under Galilee
dates to last Jewish rebellion against Romans

https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/1-600-year-old-coin-hoard-found-in-complex-tunnel-system-under-galilee-dates-to-last-jewish-rebellion-against-romans

*Egyptology*

Pharaoh's 3,000-year-old gold bracelet vanishes from museum in Egypt,
authorities say

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/gold-bracelet-pharaoh-missing-museum-cairo-egypt/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab6a&linkId=861389390&fbclid=IwdGRzaAM32StleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHvhYxnVbmS-wG5irz_CwVzOPzRBSEumGm-5msO547hxTpxPZny_DFFPYqc9U_aem_PKqAa-hCnkF1LaGkAGXPzw&sfnsn=mo

Egyptian Police Officer's Bone Whistle Found

https://archaeology.org/news/2025/09/15/egyptian-police-officers-bone-whistle-found/

Did ancient Egyptians really booby-trap the pyramids?

https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/ancient-egyptians/did-ancient-egyptians-really-booby-trap-the-pyramids

*General Science*

Electronics breakthrough means our devices may one day no longer emit waste
heat, scientists say

https://www.livescience.com/technology/electronics/electronics-breakthrough-means-our-devices-may-one-day-no-longer-emit-waste-heat-scientists-say

ChatGPT passed the Turing Test. Now what?

https://www.popsci.com/technology/chatgpt-turing-test/?fbclid=IwdGRzaAM6LhBjbGNrAzouRGV4dG4DYWVtAjExAAEe11Q8rJ267vqrNFU5U4uA3QWDXJ3ArPZerKFZLcerfuQn6PlRncPyQv5SkG0_aem_gJKejhnbsyn-75BTnoHw4A&sfnsn=mo

*Physics, Earth and Space Sciences*

NASA Discovers ‘Clearest Sign’ Yet of Ancient Life on Mars in a Rock
Studied by the Perseverance Rover

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/nasa-discovers-clearest-sign-yet-of-ancient-life-on-mars-in-a-rock-studied-by-the-perseverance-rover-180987324/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=98054053

Why solar flares are way hotter than researchers thought

https://www.npr.org/2025/09/05/nx-s1-5529330/solar-flares-even-hotter

After early struggles, NASA’s ambitious mission to Titan is “on track” for
launch

https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/09/after-early-struggles-nasas-ambitious-mission-to-titan-is-on-track-for-launch/

Scientists find evidence of flowing water on Ryugu’s ancient parent
asteroid. 'It was a genuine surprise!'

https://www.space.com/astronomy/asteroids/scientists-find-evidence-of-flowing-water-on-ryugus-ancient-parent-asteroid-it-was-a-genuine-surprise

SpaceX Starlink satellite photobombs orbital view of secret Chinese air base

https://www.space.com/space-exploration/satellites/spacex-starlink-satellite-photobombs-orbital-view-of-secret-chinese-air-base-photo

China’s dual-use asteroid-collision research threatens satellites

https://asiatimes.com/2025/09/chinas-dual-use-asteroid-collision-research-threatens-satellites/

The weird ringed dwarf planet Quaoar may have an extra moon, astronomers
discover

https://www.space.com/astronomy/dwarf-planets/the-weird-ringed-dwarf-planet-quaoar-may-have-an-extra-moon-astronomers-discover

Scientists find quasi-moon orbiting the Earth for the last 60 years—and
it's not the first one

https://phys.org/news/2025-09-scientists-quasi-moon-orbiting-earth.html#google_vignette

Can we safely deflect a killer asteroid without making it worse? Only if we
avoid the gravitational 'keyhole,' scientists say

https://www.space.com/astronomy/asteroids/attempting-to-deflect-a-potentially-hazardous-asteroid-could-accidentally-put-it-on-a-collision-course-with-earth

Geologists find direct evidence of an extraterrestrial impact and tsunami
in North Carolina

https://www.earth.com/news/direct-evidence-of-extraterrestrial-impact-and-tsunami-north-carolina-paint-hill/

'Artificial super astronauts': How AI and robotics could help humanity
settle Mars

https://www.space.com/astronomy/mars/artificial-super-astronauts-how-ai-and-robotics-could-help-humanity-settle-mars

1st known interstellar visitor 'Oumuamua is an 'exo-Pluto' — a completely
new class of object, scientists say

https://www.space.com/astronomy/dwarf-planets/1st-known-interstellar-visitor-oumuamua-is-an-exo-pluto-a-completely-new-class-of-object-scientists-say

NASA Is Testing a Nuclear Battery That Could Last 433 Years

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a65964293/nuclear-battery-433-years/

After 10 years of black hole science, Stephen Hawking is proven right

https://www.npr.org/2025/09/11/nx-s1-5537131/ligo-10-years-black-holes-hawking-theory-confirmed

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS could be turning bright green, surprising new
photos reveal

https://www.livescience.com/space/comets/interstellar-comet-3i-atlas-could-be-turning-bright-green-surprising-new-photos-reveal

Extraterrestrial life needs the right atmosphere. This planet 40
light-years away might fit the bill, scientists say.

https://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/trappist1e-atmosphere-extraterrestrial-life-planet-earth-conditions-rcna229839

Harvard professor believes interstellar objects might be proof we are not
alone, "I want to figure it out"

https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/interstellar-objects-alien-technology-avi-loeb/

Astronomers Discover Unusual, Long-Lasting Gamma-Ray Explosion Outside Our
Galaxy That Appeared Several Times Throughout a Day

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/scientists-discover-unusual-long-lasting-gamma-ray-explosion-outside-our-galaxy-that-appeared-several-times-throughout-a-day-180987317/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=98054053

Asteroid-Deflecting Missions May Need to Hit Asteroids in the Perfect Spots
to Prevent Future Collisions

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/asteroid-deflecting-missions-need-to-hit-asteroids-in-a-specific-spot-to-avoid-pushing-them-into-another-collision-course-with-earth-new-research-reveals-180987342/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=editorial&utm_term=9152025&utm_content=new&fbclid=IwY2xjawM1uTNleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHh7TpoflPW2_n5BjPrJL1bHPTx5GxJZI2KVlmrliTUwjCQ8pDICjrX4CJUdY_aem_gY_sJMkivK7z9CPFKCYnVQ

We've officially found 6,000 exoplanets, NASA says: 'We're entering the
next great chapter of exploration'

https://www.space.com/astronomy/exoplanets/weve-officially-found-6-000-exoplanets-nasa-says-were-entering-the-next-great-chapter-of-exploration

Earth-like exoplanet could be habitable, and astronomers may know soon

https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/18/science/exoplanet-possibly-habitable

'The sun is slowly waking up': Scientists say a rise in solar storms awaits
us

https://www.space.com/astronomy/sun/the-sun-is-slowly-waking-up-scientists-say-a-rise-in-solar-storms-awaits-us

'Dramatic' changes spotted in first black hole ever imaged

https://www.livescience.com/space/black-holes/first-ever-black-hole-to-be-directly-imaged-has-changed-dramatically-in-just-4-years-new-study-finds

Artemis 2 astronauts will double as human science experiments on their trip
around the moon

https://www.space.com/space-exploration/artemis/artemis-2-astronauts-will-double-as-human-science-experiments-on-their-trip-around-the-moon

Can a spacecraft land on a teeny tiny asteroid? Japan's Hayabusa2 will
certainly try

https://www.space.com/astronomy/asteroids/japans-hayabusa2-is-heading-to-the-smallest-asteroid-ever-visited-by-a-space-mission

How Prepared Are We for a Rare and Powerful Solar Event?

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-prepared-are-we-for-a-rare-and-powerful-solar-event-180987293/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=98054053

Discovery of new moon or ring system orbiting mysterious distant planet
Quaoar

https://phys.org/news/2025-09-discovery-moon-orbiting-mysterious-distant.html#google_vignette

Starship will soon fly over towns and cities, but will dodge the biggest
ones

https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/09/starship-will-soon-fly-over-towns-and-cities-but-will-dodge-the-biggest-ones/

Huge crater under North Sea was created by asteroid impact, scientists say

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/sep/20/huge-crater-under-north-sea-was-created-by-asteroid-impact-scientists-say

We are just beginning to discover what Earth's inner core is really made of

https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/we-are-just-beginning-to-discover-what-earths-inner-core-is-really-made-of

Northrop Grumman's biggest-ever cargo spacecraft arrives at ISS on its
debut mission

https://www.space.com/space-exploration/international-space-station/northrop-grumman-biggest-ever-cargo-spacecraft-cygnus-xl-arrives-at-iss

How Volunteers Helped Train Satellites to Health-Check the Chesapeake

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/smithsonian-environmental-research-center/2025/09/16/how-volunteers-trained-satellites-to-health-check-the-chesapeake/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=98054053

*Environment, Climate Change and Alternative Energy Sources*

US energy chief tells BBC nuclear fusion will soon power the world

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqlz5p314z0o

The Vatican Puts Environmental Preaching Into Practice at New Ecological
Center in Italy

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/the-vatican-puts-environmental-preaching-into-practice-at-new-ecological-center-in-italy-180987320/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=98054053

Academies publishes strongest rebuke yet of the EPA attempts to dismiss
climate threats

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/national-academies-rebukes-epa-climate-threats/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab6a&linkId=861501495&fbclid=IwY2xjawM4VyxleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHn6XrM0vCEXZOdubE06uN4tWEkIiB60rgoFZ-BPo8qbEEvoYOa0lNieDY_SP_aem_grefsPqKq_cb6mR6RHenRA

New climate report warns property prices face a $611 billion hit. What does
that mean?

https://theconversation.com/new-climate-report-warns-property-prices-face-a-611-billion-hit-what-does-that-mean-265284

Metal Barrels Dumped Off the Coast of Los Angeles Are Encircled by
Mysterious White Halos—and Scientists Think They Finally Know Why

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/metal-barrels-dumped-off-the-coast-of-los-angeles-are-encircled-by-mysterious-while-halos-and-scientists-think-they-finally-know-why-180987334/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=98054053

New model can accurately predict a forest’s future

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1098288

Reversing Antarctic sea ice loss depends on ocean layering, study finds

https://phys.org/news/2025-09-reversing-antarctic-sea-ice-loss.html

3D-printed fuel cells could reshape sustainable aerospace applications

https://techxplore.com/news/2025-09-3d-fuel-cells-reshape-sustainable.html#google_vignette

First experimental proof of multiscale coupling in plasma has implications
for fusion energy

https://techxplore.com/news/2025-09-experimental-proof-multiscale-coupling-plasma.html

*Biological, Genetics and Medical Sciences*

New Helmet-Shaped Device Could One Day Treat Conditions Such as Parkinson’s
Without Invasive Surgery, Scientists Suggest

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/new-helmet-shaped-device-could-one-day-treat-conditions-such-as-parkinsons-without-invasive-surgery-scientists-suggest-180987325/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=98054053

Brain implants are here, they help — and they’re a little creepy

https://www.npr.org/2025/09/10/nx-s1-5527100/brain-computer-interface-implant

At Almost 500 Feet Below the Water, Experts Heard the Sounds of the Elusive
Beaked Whale

https://www.discovermagazine.com/sight-and-sound-searching-for-the-calls-of-the-elusive-beaked-whale-48018

Octopuses prefer to use different arms for different tasks, scientists find

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/sep/11/octopuses-prefer-to-use-different-arms-for-different-tasks-scientists-find

Dr. Peter Hotez takes the war against science very personally

https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2025/09/10/g-s1-87614/dr-peter-hotez-science-rfk-jr

Child’s Death Shows How Measles in the Brain Can Kill Years after an
Infection

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/measles-death-shows-how-virus-can-hide-in-the-brain-for-years/

Orcas attack two boats, sinking one

https://www.kiro7.com/news/trending/orcas-attack-two-boats-sinking-one/XCXZXD22ZJB47PDHZODOGCO3PE/

Three-Minute Take-Home Test May Identify Symptoms Linked to Alzheimer’s
Disease Years Before a Traditional Diagnosis

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/three-minute-take-home-test-may-identify-symptoms-linked-to-alzheimers-disease-years-before-a-traditional-diagnosis-180987281/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=98054053

Scientists Deposit 200,000 Rare Oysters in a Shipwreck 100 Feet Below the
Surface of the North Sea

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/scientists-deposit-200000-rare-oysters-in-a-shipwreck-100-feet-below-the-surface-of-the-north-sea-180987047/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=98054053

*Other*

Inside ‘Blood & Myth,’ Hulu’s chilling true-crime tale of Alaska’s
legendary ‘little people’: ‘I came away believing’

https://www.goldderby.com/tv/2025/blood-and-myth-hulu-james-dommek-kahlil-hudson-interview/

Jazz head at Kennedy Center is the latest firing at the beleaguered arts
institution

https://www.npr.org/2025/09/11/nx-s1-5538440/jazz-director-kennedy-center-trump

Additional Informational

Searching for Home: A Sisters in the Wind Review

https://www.indian-affairs.org/blog?fbclid=IwVERTSAMxHZRleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHsQ2LHM69YnoBcldcb_VrSRZbKFR8FVfMgSY_ZS-VVYHvTXaMXmNlSsazCA8_aem_L4rwslkbXXRvL6LTiUNrTQ&sfnsn=mo

The oldest known lepidosaur and origins of lepidosaur feeding adaptations

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09496-9

Oral History of Human Origins Research

https://leakeyfoundation.org/learn/oral-history-of-human-origins-research/?fbclid=IwdGRzaAMv6RtjbGNrAy_pUGV4dG4DYWVtAjExAAEenKgInNOhbWM9O6l6d4d980H6ZRkLIRt-aUbVznpZs8btFqz_zX2H_giMkrk_aem_NERea-guD-7DlCG-PvFI4g&sfnsn=mo

Shocked quartz at the Younger Dryas onset (12.8 ka) supports cosmic
airbursts/impacts contributing to North American megafaunal extinctions and
collapse of the Clovis technocomplex

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0319840&fbclid=IwdGRzaAMyb01jbGNrAzJvgWV4dG4DYWVtAjExAAEelGrwpmyMmBl5SW9UCPQt1gcDDvD7jzMzyAY36-7_FH43FrlPNfEx7IniOdc_aem_E1PJmu1FLsDJhDk627akwg&sfnsn=mo

Monuments Men and Women Foundation Stops Auction Sale of Paintings Looted
by the Nazis from the Schloss Collection

https://www.monumentsmenandwomenfnd.org/post/sale-of-nazi-looted-paintings-from-schloss-collection-stopped

The Schloss Story: Art, War, and Restitution

https://www.monumentsmenandwomenfnd.org/post/the-schloss-story

NASA the Mars Report

https://science.nasa.gov/mars/the-mars-report/2025-september-special-edition/?newsletters091125&utm_source=iContact&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nasa-mars-communications&utm_content=Final%3A+Mars+Report+-+Sept+Version

Ocean Insights Newsletter

https://explore.whoi.edu/ocean-insights-september-11-2025?ecid=ACsprvu-zzOjqo6eCWarjweBme-MXDoW0YSKOUwLFh4lIgG9UDcR9qWRVACQxhJ1IwcLCIx8rT4Q&utm_campaign=6570037-Ocean%20Insights%202025&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_goonjFt7mBQMs89GqXY_D7OPx38jim8rDami85doD2botByAeNS9bf6XIzwh-R9VHwyUf5Q_J4Xymd-67MntckVRNopbjXWnC_exv9t2UF2HGEKM&_hsmi=380172011&utm_content=380172011&utm_source=hs_email

NASA Says Mars Rover Discovered Potential Biosignature Last Year

https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-says-mars-rover-discovered-potential-biosignature-last-year/

NASA Analysis Shows Sun’s Activity Ramping Up

https://www.nasa.gov/science-research/heliophysics/nasa-analysis-shows-suns-activity-ramping-up/

Culture is driving a major shift in human evolution, new theory proposes

https://umaine.edu/news/blog/2025/09/15/culture-is-driving-a-major-shift-in-human-evolution-new-theory-proposes/

AI-powered CRISPR could lead to faster gene therapies, Stanford Medicine
study finds

https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2025/09/ai-crispr-gene-therapy.html

NOAA Fisheries Partners with Smithsonian to Archive Marine Specimens for
Genetic Research

https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/feature-story/noaa-fisheries-partners-smithsonian-archive-marine-specimens-genetic-research

Claims of pure bloodlines? Ancestral homelands? DNA science says no.

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/09/claims-of-pure-bloodlines-ancestral-homelands-dna-science-says-no/

Newly released video at House UFO hearing appears to show U.S. missile
striking and bouncing off orb

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/video-house-ufo-hearing-us-missile-strikes-unidentified-object/

Space Settlement Summit, Nov 3-4: Orlando, FL

https://spacesettlementsummit.nss.org/

EPSC-DPS2025: Study Questions Ocean Origin of Organics in Enceladus’s Plumes

https://www.europlanet.org/epsc-dps2025-study-questions-ocean-origin-of-organics-in-enceladuss-plumes/

Can Hayabusa2 touchdown? New study reveals space mission’s target asteroid
is tinier and faster than thought

https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2515/

Aurelia Institute Newsletter

https://mailchi.mp/aureliainstitute/introducing-rendezvous?e=57e055f9a1
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