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each hardship comes? I was practicing for this; I was training for this.”</span></b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> <br>
</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Roman
Philosopher, Epictetus (55-135 AD)</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>

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<h1 align="center" style="margin:0in;text-align:center;font-size:24pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a name="_Toc396567381"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Introduction</span></a><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></h1>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">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.</span></p>

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<h2 style="margin:0in;break-after:avoid;font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-style:italic"><a name="_Toc396567383"><u><span style="font-size:11pt;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal">Paleontology, Evolution and Prehistoric Studies</span></u></a><u><span style="font-size:11pt;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal"></span></u></h2>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline;margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);letter-spacing:-0.05pt">Ancient DNA Sheds
Light on the Origins of Indo-European Languages</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Rare
Fossil of 183-Million-Year-Old ‘Sea Monster’ Reveals Both Smooth and Scaly Skin</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/rare-fossil-of-183-million-year-old-sea-monster-reveals-both-smooth-and-scaly-skin-180986026/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=98054053" style="color:blue">https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/rare-fossil-of-183-million-year-old-sea-monster-reveals-both-smooth-and-scaly-skin-180986026/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=98054053</a></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The
Search to Find the Remains of Homo Erectus in a Vanishing Landscape</span></p>

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LEVANTINE HOMININS CAPABLE OF ABSTRACT THOUGHT?</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Fossil
of oldest known modern bird discovered in Antarctica</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/05/science/skull-fossil-oldest-known-modern-bird/index.html" style="color:blue">https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/05/science/skull-fossil-oldest-known-modern-bird/index.html</a></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Did
These Ice Age Europeans Wear Cheek Piercings?</span></p>

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Discover Fossil of the Oldest Known Modern Bird—but It Raises More Questions
Than It Answers</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/paleontologists-discover-fossil-of-the-oldest-known-modern-bird-but-it-raises-more-questions-than-it-answers-180986015/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=98054053" style="color:blue">https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/paleontologists-discover-fossil-of-the-oldest-known-modern-bird-but-it-raises-more-questions-than-it-answers-180986015/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=98054053</a></span></p>

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Discover ‘Groundbreaking’ Jurassic Fossil That Could Overhaul the Evolutionary
History of Birds</span></p>

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have developed complex brains independently from mammals</span></p>

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Confederate Forces Captured Their Children, These Black Mothers Fought to
Reunite Their Families</span></p>

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the Fantastically Bejeweled Skeletons of Catholicism’s Forgotten Martyrs</span></p>

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Reintroduced to Rosa Parks as a New Archive Reveals the Woman Behind the
Boycott</span></p>

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Who Exposed the Secrets of the Black Chamber, One of America’s First
Code-Breaking Organizations</span></p>

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says it found 2,400 new JFK assassination records</span></p>

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Thought to Be Lost to History</span></p>

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Through the Archives With Legendary Historian Robert Caro</span></p>

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Enslaved, This Black Millionaire Attempted to Colonize Mexico and Aspired to Be
the Emperor of Ethiopia</span></p>

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of the Smithsonian’s Newest Museums Is Looking at the Unsung Heroines of
American History</span></p>

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Endowment for the Arts to Limit Funding for Programs That Promote Diversity and
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of the Fulani, one of the largest pastoral populations in Africa, unraveled in
study</span></p>

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Transylvanian diaries show how the Little Ice Age completely changed life and
death in the region</span></p>

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Animals Went in Two by Two, According to Babylonian Ark Tablet</span></p>

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February, Meet the Women Transforming Science at the National Museum of Natural
History</span></p>

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Discover a Stash of 1,500-Year-Old Weapons—Including the Only Known Roman
Helmet Ever Found in Denmark</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline;margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);letter-spacing:-0.05pt"><a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-discover-a-stash-of-1500-year-old-weapons-including-the-only-known-roman-helmet-ever-found-in-denmark-180986014/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=98054053" style="color:blue">https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-discover-a-stash-of-1500-year-old-weapons-including-the-only-known-roman-helmet-ever-found-in-denmark-180986014/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=98054053</a></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">How
AI imagery could be used to develop fake archaeology</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="https://theconversation.com/how-ai-imagery-could-be-used-to-develop-fake-archaeology-247838" style="color:blue">https://theconversation.com/how-ai-imagery-could-be-used-to-develop-fake-archaeology-247838</a><span class="gmail-MsoHyperlink" style="color:blue;text-decoration-line:underline"></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Archaeologists
Unearth Rare 1,000-Year-Old Food Storage Pit in Alaska</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-unearth-rare-1000-year-old-food-storage-pit-in-alaska-180985935/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=98054053" style="color:blue">https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-unearth-rare-1000-year-old-food-storage-pit-in-alaska-180985935/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=98054053</a></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Warship
Sunk by the Nazis During World War II Located Off the Coast of Brazil</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/warship-sunk-by-the-nazis-during-world-war-ii-located-off-the-coast-of-brazil-180985996/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=98054053" style="color:blue">https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/warship-sunk-by-the-nazis-during-world-war-ii-located-off-the-coast-of-brazil-180985996/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=98054053</a></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline;margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);letter-spacing:-0.05pt">People have been
dumping corpses into the Thames since at least the Bronze Age, study finds</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline;margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);letter-spacing:-0.05pt"><a href="https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/people-have-been-dumping-corpses-into-the-thames-since-at-least-the-bronze-age-study-finds" style="color:blue">https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/people-have-been-dumping-corpses-into-the-thames-since-at-least-the-bronze-age-study-finds</a></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline;margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);letter-spacing:-0.05pt"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline;margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);letter-spacing:-0.05pt">Archaeologists
Unearth the Ruins of a 2,000-Year-Old Roman Basilica Beneath an Office Building
in London</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline;margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);letter-spacing:-0.05pt"><a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-unearth-the-ruins-of-a-2000-year-old-roman-basilica-beneath-an-office-building-in-london-180986070/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=98054053" style="color:blue">https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-unearth-the-ruins-of-a-2000-year-old-roman-basilica-beneath-an-office-building-in-london-180986070/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=98054053</a></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline;margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);letter-spacing:-0.05pt"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline;margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);letter-spacing:-0.05pt">Elite Germanic
Pagans Buried ‘Devil’s Money’ as Offerings for Their Gods at This Ancient Cult
Site</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline;margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);letter-spacing:-0.05pt"><a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/elite-germanic-pagans-buried-devils-money-offerings-for-their-gods-at-this-ancient-cult-site-180986048/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=98054053" style="color:blue">https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/elite-germanic-pagans-buried-devils-money-offerings-for-their-gods-at-this-ancient-cult-site-180986048/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=98054053</a></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline;margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);letter-spacing:-0.05pt"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline;margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);letter-spacing:-0.05pt">For Centuries,
Indigenous People Lived in These Desert Canyons. Now, New Technology Reveals
Extraordinary Details About This Sacred Site</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline;margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);letter-spacing:-0.05pt"><a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/canyon-of-the-ancestors-180985955/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=98054053" style="color:blue">https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/canyon-of-the-ancestors-180985955/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=98054053</a></span></p>

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the Hidden Portrait of a Mysterious Woman Discovered Beneath a Picasso Painting</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/see-the-hidden-portrait-of-a-mysterious-woman-discovered-beneath-a-picasso-painting-180986037/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=98054053" style="color:blue">https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/see-the-hidden-portrait-of-a-mysterious-woman-discovered-beneath-a-picasso-painting-180986037/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=98054053</a></span></p>

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Were All of These Bodies Buried Sitting Upright and Facing West More Than 2,000
Years Ago?</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/why-were-all-of-these-bodies-buried-sitting-upright-and-facing-west-more-than-2000-years-ago-180986027/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=98054053" style="color:blue">https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/why-were-all-of-these-bodies-buried-sitting-upright-and-facing-west-more-than-2000-years-ago-180986027/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=98054053</a></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline;margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);letter-spacing:-0.05pt">Mysterious tunnels
sketched by Leonardo da Vinci in 1495 may finally have been discovered — hidden
under a castle in Milan</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline;margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);letter-spacing:-0.05pt"><a href="https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/mysterious-tunnels-sketched-by-leonardo-da-vinci-in-1495-may-finally-have-been-discovered-hidden-under-a-castle-in-milan" style="color:blue">https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/mysterious-tunnels-sketched-by-leonardo-da-vinci-in-1495-may-finally-have-been-discovered-hidden-under-a-castle-in-milan</a></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline;margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);letter-spacing:-0.05pt">Archaeologists
find 'significant' Viking building</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline;margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a name="_Hlk190699733"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);letter-spacing:-0.05pt"> </span></a></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline;margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);letter-spacing:-0.05pt">Report documents devastation of ancient city of Palmyra, a World
Heritage Site, after the fall of the Assad regime</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline;margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://phys.org/news/2025-02-documents-devastation-ancient-city-palmyra.html" style="color:blue"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;letter-spacing:-0.05pt">https://phys.org/news/2025-02-documents-devastation-ancient-city-palmyra.html</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);letter-spacing:-0.05pt"></span></p>



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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline;margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);letter-spacing:-0.05pt">New study finds
meteoric iron in early Iron Age artifacts in Poland</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Egyptologists raise ‘mismanagement’ concerns after worker seen hammering at
Great Pyramid of Giza</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/02/03/egyptologists-mismanagement-concerns-great-pyramid-of-giza" style="color:blue">https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/02/03/egyptologists-mismanagement-concerns-great-pyramid-of-giza</a></span></p>

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spacecraft could travel across interstellar space with this 'trampoline'
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Agency Tried to Regulate SpaceX. Now Its Fate Could Be in Elon Musk’s Hands.</span></p>

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telescope reveals rare ‘Einstein ring’ phenomenon with startling clarity</span></p>

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inner core might harbor volcanoes and landslides</span></p>

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clouds on Mars captured in Martian twilight in stunning NASA rover images</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.space.com/the-universe/mars/iridescent-clouds-on-mars-captured-in-martian-twilight-in-stunning-nasa-rover-images-video?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=All%20Push%20Subscribers" style="color:blue">https://www.space.com/the-universe/mars/iridescent-clouds-on-mars-captured-in-martian-twilight-in-stunning-nasa-rover-images-video?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=All%20Push%20Subscribers</a></span></p>

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was a miracle.' Amazing tales of dead spacecraft that came back to life</span></p>

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Unrest’ at Alaska’s Mount Spurr Suggests 50-50 Chance an Eruption Could Be
Coming</span></p>

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planetary evolution favor human-like life? Study ups odds we're not alone</span></p>

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Inner Core Is Changing Shape, Study Finds, Indicating Even More Dynamic Shifts
Deep Within Our Planet</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/earths-inner-core-is-changing-shape-study-finds-indicating-even-more-dynamic-shifts-deep-within-our-planet-180986038/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=98054053" style="color:blue">https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/earths-inner-core-is-changing-shape-study-finds-indicating-even-more-dynamic-shifts-deep-within-our-planet-180986038/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=98054053</a></span></p>

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acting head asks staff to take ‘inspiration’ from DOGE efforts as lawmakers
cite Musk’s conflict of interest</span></p>

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unusual ghost particle is spotted by a deep-sea telescope in the Mediterranean</span></p>

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rover to fly on China’s Chang’e-8 lunar south pole mission</span></p>

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Solar Orbiter Traces Origin of Solar Wind</span></p>

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new theory explains how water first arrived on Earth</span></p>

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Human Brain May Contain as Much as a Spoon’s Worth of Microplastics, New
Research Suggests</span></p>

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Shimmery Fish Disappeared From Michigan Nearly a Century Ago. Can They Make a
Comeback?</span></p>

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sea was once a blessing for the Pakistani city of Gwadar. But it’s become a
curse</span></p>

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ice sheet could fully melt after reaching specific tipping point, study finds</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="https://phys.org/news/2025-02-greenland-ice-sheet-fully-specific.html" style="color:blue">https://phys.org/news/2025-02-greenland-ice-sheet-fully-specific.html</a></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Efforts
to archive climate data intensify as government limits access</span></p>

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to the past to understand the impacts of human land use in South Asia</span></p>

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capture extremely rare footage of a black seadevil</span></p>

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Continues to Monitor Orbit of Near-Earth Asteroid 2024 YR4</span></p>

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NEO Surveyor Successfully Completes Critical Design Review</span></p>

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statement on Oval Office access</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Securing Space: A Plan
for U.S. Action Report</span></p>

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