Weekly Science Report 1st Feb 2019

Weekly Science Report
February 1, 2019

“I believe in humanity. We are an incredible species. We're still just a child creature, we're still
being nasty to each other. And all children go through those phases. We're growing up, we're
moving into adolescence now. When we grow up - man, we're going to be something!”
Gene Roddenberry

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

This cave sheltered some of the first known humans 300,000 years ago
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/this-cave-sheltered-
some-of-the-first-known-humans-300000-years-ago/ar-
BBSY7BR?ocid=se

Unexpected DNA link: A Kennewick man shares paternal lineage with Kennewick Man
https://www.nbcrightnow.com/check-it-out/unexpected-dna-link-a-kennewick-man-shares-paternal-
lineage-with/article_0d1dd9d8-192e-11e9-a8d2-fb6538151077.html?
utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=user-share

Human Footprints Off Canadian Coast Pre-date End Of Last Ice Age
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/deadthings/2018/03/28/human-footprints/#.XFMIc1VKhQJ
DNA from a newly unearthed Alaska graveyard offers fresh

knowledge about ancient Arctic populations
https://www.arctictoday.com/dna-from-a-newly-unearthed-
alaska-graveyard-offers-fresh-knowledge-about-ancient-
arctic-populations/?
fbclid=IwAR2QVXhVkkLXsziwv4699IoLlXCdB48UmeITrEo
NDLhqEcdhTE_BLy7U88Y

Crossing the Timor
https://popular-archaeology.com/article/crossing-the-timor/

Humans colonized diverse environments in Southeast Asia and Oceania during the Pleistocene
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-01/mpif-hcd012819.php

How predatory plankton created modern ecosystems after 'Snowball Earth'
https://phys.org/news/2019-02-predatory-plankton-modern-ecosystems-snowball.html

History

The Passamaquoddy Reclaim Their Culture Through Digital Repatriation
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-passamaquoddy-reclaim-their-culture-
through-digital-repatriation?fbclid=IwAR3uqUjs0A6B1cpQh-NMecJiYmJehJ5M1oYPd-
IkOiuv3LEPj5v5d8SytP4

Tory peer involved in controversial sale of Iraqi antiquities
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/tory-peer-involved-in-controversial-sale-of-iraqi-antiquities

Merlin tale fragments discovered in Bristol archives
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2019/jan/30/undiscovered-merlin-tale-fragments-found-in-
bristol-archives?CMP=fb_gu

Holocaust survivor helps track art looted from Hungary
https://amp.detroitnews.com/amp/2514670002?__twitter_impression=true

Study Finds Art Museums Are Slowly Becoming More Diverse, but Progress Is ‘Uneven’
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/art-museums-are-becoming-more-diverse-progress-
uneven-180971373/#HazLc337eZfwTFyj.03

Frank Blaichman, 96, Dies; Led Jewish Fighters in World War II
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/25/obituaries/frank-blaichman-dead.html

Eichmann's Best Man Lived and Died in Syria
https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/383296/

What Iran’s revolution looked like from inside the shah’s palace
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2019/01/24/what-irans-revolution-looked-like-
from-inside-the-shahs-palace/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

DNA test squashes decades-long ‘doppelganger conspiracy’ about Rudolf Hess
https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/national/health-science/dna-test-squashes-decades-long-
doppelganger-conspiracy-about-rudolf-hess/2019/01/25/abb231de-1e8d-11e9-8e21-
59a09ff1e2a1_story.html?__twitter_impression=true

Dakar’s Museum of Black Civilizations is a vital step for a people reclaiming their history
https://qz.com/africa/1533523/dakars-museum-of-black-civilizations-tells-africas-story/amp/?
__twitter_impression=true

How will generations that didn’t experience the Holocaust remember it?
https://theconversation.com/how-will-generations-that-didnt-experience-the-holocaust-remember-it-
110137

What are Muslim prayer rugs?
https://theconversation.com/what-are-muslim-prayer-rugs-110406

The Monk Who Taught the World Mindfulness Awaits the End of This Life
http://time.com/5511729/monk-mindfulness-art-of-dying/?xid=tcoshare

The Ethics of Killing Baby Hitler
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/10/killing-baby-hitler-ethics/412273/?
utm_campaign=the-
atlantic&utm_content=5c439def9ebbef0001a69c7e_ta&utm_medium=social&utm_source=faceboo
k

Pakistan’s Crumbling Cultural Heritage
https://thediplomat.com/2019/01/pakistans-crumbling-cultural-heritage/

The Interior Department is running mainly without Senate-confirmed leaders. It just opted to keep it
that way
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2019/01/30/interior-department-is-running-
mainly-without-senate-confirmed-leaders-it-just-opted-keep-it-that-way/?utm_term=.17577c47686e

Benefits For Navy Victims Of Agent Orange – Just 50 Years Later
https://www.npr.org/2019/01/30/689919270/benefits-for-navy-victims-of-agent-orange-just-50-
years-later?sc=tw

Morton Sobell, convicted in Rosenberg atomic bomb spy trial, dies at 101
https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/local/obituaries/morton-sobell-convicted-in-rosenberg-
atomic-bomb-spy-trial-dies-at-101/2019/01/30/4ae88196-24d7-11e9-90cd-
dedb0c92dc17_story.html?__twitter_impression=true

S. Koreans mourn death of wartime sex slave who fought Tokyo
https://apnews.com/2443dd5958b9476ab953f421e7e4986d

Women Have Made Gains in Museum Leadership, But Progress Has Been More Incremental for
People of Color, a New Study Says
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/women-museum-leadership-diversity-study-1450213?
fbclid=IwAR1-TjLfip2t3An7doFXte5Opr-
3ygIHeITGAefC7C0SZqRadJ9xyoc9sho#.XFSJPnyGIP1.facebook

Archaeology

Archaeologists in South Africa discover 'lost city' using laser technology
http://www.africanews.com/2019/01/29/archaeologists-in-south-africa-discover-lost-city-using-
laser-technology/

Scientists discover ancient Mayan city hidden under Guatemalan jungle
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/feb/03/scientists-discover-ancient-mayan-city-hidden-
under-guatemalan-jungle?CMP=share_btn_link

Ancient fortress reveals how prehistoric civilizations of Central Asia lived
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-02/arsc-afr010619.php

Archaeology: Were ancient writings, giants pulled from Ohio burial mounds? Ummm, no
https://www.dispatch.com/news/20190127/archaeology-were-ancient-writings-giants-pulled-from-
ohio-burial-mounds-ummm-no

Archeological findings confirm oral history of Lake Babine First Nation in northern B.C.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/lake-babine-archeology-1.4991792

Egyptology

A Madrid mummy is found to be a pharaoh’s eye doctor
https://elpais.com/elpais/2019/01/07/inenglish/1546880586_334568.amp.html

Archaeologists find Rome-era tombs in Egypt’s Western Desert
https://apnews.com/345efb62765d4c7e84efbd971ed77cd2

Egyptian Antiquities Ministry announces new archeological discovery in Minya
https://ww.egyptindependent.com/egyptian-antiquities-ministry-announces-new-archeological-
discovery-in-minya/

General Science

3D printing method creates objects in one piece
https://www.llnl.gov/news/3d-printing-method-creates-objects-one-piece

The World’s Fastest Supercomputer Breaks an AI Record
https://www.wired.com/story/worlds-fastest-supercomputer-breaks-ai-record/?
CNDID=41291302&CNDID=41291302&bxid=MjM5NjgxMjIxODk5S0&hasha=3ed15b3d4270f5
2ce4da5de4e5031836&hashb=9085a9ae56cc45a4e9bae24e2eaeaade6e04a43e&mbid=nl_020119_d
aily_list1_p4&source=DAILY_NEWSLETTER&utm_brand=wired&utm_mailing=WIRED%20NL
%20020119%20(1)&utm_medium=email&utm_source=nl

Clever timing makes computers produce less heat—even below Landauer's limit
https://phys.org/news/2019-01-clever-heateven-landauer-limit.html

An Underwater Skin Sensor Lets Swimmers Track Their Sweat
https://www.wired.com/story/an-underwater-skin-sensor-lets-swimmers-track-their-sweat/?

In our Wi-Fi world, the internet still depends on undersea cables
https://theconversation.com/in-our-wi-fi-world-the-internet-still-depends-on-undersea-cables-49936

Alaska Schools Get Faster Internet—Partly Thanks to Global Warming
https://www.wired.com/story/alaska-schools-get-faster-internet-partly-thanks-global-warming/?

Scientists 'hijack' open-access quantum computer to tease out quantum secrets
https://phys.org/news/2019-02-scientists-hijack-open-access-quantum-secrets.html

Magnetic teeth hold promise for materials and energy
https://phys.org/news/2019-02-magnetic-teeth-materials-energy.html

Physics, Earth and Space Sciences
Long Ago, Venus Looked Strikingly Similar to Earth

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2016/08/12/venus-was-once-and-earth-twin/?
utm_source=dscfb&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dscfb#.XFIxkFxKjIW

Active galaxies point to new physics of cosmic expansion
https://phys.org/news/2019-01-galaxies-physics-cosmic-expansion.html

Data From a Dead Satellite Reveals Lost Continents Under Antarctica
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/yw7z95/data-from-a-dead-satellite-reveals-lost-
continents-under-antarctica?utm_source=vicefbus

Planetary collision that formed the moon made life possible on Earth
https://phys.org/news/2019-01-planetary-collision-moon-life-earth.html

It’s Time to Rethink Who’s Best Suited for Space Travel
https://www.wired.com/story/its-time-to-rethink-whos-best-
suited-for-space-travel/?
CNDID=41291302&CNDID=41291302&bxid=MjM5NjgxMjIx
ODk5S0&hasha=3ed15b3d4270f52ce4da5de4e5031836&hashb
=9085a9ae56cc45a4e9bae24e2eaeaade6e04a43e&mbid=nl_012
719_daily_list3_p2&source=DAILY_NEWSLETTER&utm_b
rand=wired&utm_mailing=WIRED%20NL
And Now, the Weather: Mars-like, With a Chance of

Apocalypse
https://www.wired.com/story/and-now-the-weather-mars-like-
with-a-chance-of-apocalypse/?
919_daily_list1_p1&source=DAILY_NEWSLETTER&utm_b
rand=wired&utm_mailing=WIRED%20NL

BREATHTAKING PHOTOS OF A WORLD WITHOUT LIGHT POLLUTION
HTTPS://WWW.WIRED.COM/2017/04/GAVIN-HEFFERNAN-HARUN-MEHMEDINOVIC-
SKYGLOW/AMP?__TWITTER_IMPRESSION=TRUE

Video from Virgin Galactic's VSS Unity shows stunning view of Earth from the edge of space
https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/amp/ncna948206?__twitter_impression=true

Private company launches “Largest Fleet of Satellites in Human History” to photograph Earth
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/private-company-launches-largest-fleet-of-satellites-in-human-
history-to-photograph-earth-60-minutes/

SpaceX Revs Its Engines as It Gets Closer to Crewed Flight
https://www.wired.com/story/spacex-revs-its-engines-as-it-gets-closer-to-crewed-flight/?

New research uses Curiosity rover to measure gravity on Mars
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-01/uom-nru013119.php

The 'stuff' of the universe keeps changing
https://phys.org/news/2019-02-universe.html

Variations in seafloor create freak ocean waves
https://phys.org/news/2019-02-variations-seafloor-freak-ocean.html

Astrophysicist Mercedes Lopez-Morales Is Grooming the Next Generation of Planet Hunters
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/astrophysicist-mercedes-lopez-morales-is-grooming-
next-generation-of-planet-hunters-180971191/

A Smithsonian Researcher Reflects on What It Will Take to Land Humans on Mars
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/smithsonian-researcher-reflects-what-it-
will-take-land-humans-mars-180971333/

Environment, Climate Change and Alternative Energy

Sources

America colonisation ‘cooled Earth's climate’
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-47063973?
ns_mchannel=social&ocid=socialflow_facebook&ns_source=facebook&ns_campaign=bbcnews

Gas find in North Sea hailed as 'biggest in a decade'
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-scotland-business-47041270?
ns_source=facebook&ns_campaign=bbcnews&ns_mchannel=social&ocid=socialflow_facebook

Germany to shutter all 84 coal-fired plants to fight climate change
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/427182-germany-to-shut-down-all-84-of-its-coal-
fired-plants-to-fight

Converting Wi-Fi signals to electricity with new 2-D materials
https://techxplore.com/news/2019-01-wi-fi-electricity-d-materials.html

Global Seed Vault Gets Its Millionth Donation and a $13 Million Update
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/global-seed-vault-hit-one-million-mark-donation-
gets-13-million-upgrade-180968267/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=socialmedia

Amazon deforestation, already rising, may spike

under Bolsonaro
https://theconversation.com/amazon-deforestation-already-rising-may-spike-under-bolsonaro-
109940

With Better Climate Data, A Push To Use It To Prepare For Climate Impacts
https://www.npr.org/2019/01/30/690090608/with-better-climate-data-a-push-to-use-it-to-prepare-
for-climate-impacts?sc=tw

Nepalese Rice Farmers Boost Yields By Sowing Fewer Plants And Cutting Water
https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/01/30/689685891/nepalese-rice-farmers-boost-yields-by-
sowing-fewer-plants-and-cutting-water?sc=tw

Massive Starfish Die-Off Is Tied To Global Warming
https://www.npr.org/2019/01/30/690003678/massive-starfish-die-off-is-tied-to-global-warming?
sc=tw

US moves ahead with oil leases near sacred park
https://apnews.com/cb5aa97fc7b243a3baef02a3ab1ff0f4

Study reveals wildlife is abundant in Chernobyl
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-01/uog-
srw013119.php

Antarctic meltwater streams shed light on longstanding hydrological mystery
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-02/uoca-ams012819.php

'Inkjet' solar panels poised to revolutionise green energy
https://techxplore.com/news/2019-02-inkjet-solar-panels-poised-revolutionise.html

Biological, Genetics and Medical Sciences
The ‘Complete’ Cancer Cure Story Is Both Bogus and Tragic
https://www.wired.com/story/the-complete-cancer-cure-story-
is-both-bogus-and-tragic/?
119_daily_list1_p1&source=DAILY_NEWSLETTER&utm_br
and=wired&utm_mailing=WIRED%20NL

Emerging evidence of an impending Parkinson's disease pandemic identified
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-01-emerging-evidence-
impending-parkinson-disease.html

These Patients Had Sickle-Cell Disease. Experimental Therapies Might Have Cured Them.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/27/health/sickle-cell-gene-therapy.html

Pesticides Are Harming Bees in Literally Every Possible Way
https://www.wired.com/story/pesticides-are-harming-bees-in-literally-every-possible-way/?

Sonar can scare whales to death, new study shows
https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/sonar-can-scare-whales-death-new-study-shows-
ncna964801?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma

Nanoparticles may promote cancer metastasis
https://phys.org/news/2019-02-nanoparticles-cancer-metastasis.html

Should the Himalayan Wolf Be Classified as a New Species?
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/should-
himalayan-wolf-be-classified-new-species-180971396/

Other

Can Norway win the global race to build a 'floating tunnel'?
https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/norway-underwater-floating-tunnel-intl/index.html?
utm_term=link&utm_medium=social&utm_source=fbCNNi&utm_content=2019-01-
29T05%3A31%3A03

The Arctic Village With Satellite TV But No Running Water
https://www.wired.com/story/greenland-ice-sheet-photo-gallery/?

Engineer's 'metallic wood' has the strength of titanium and the density of water
https://phys.org/news/2019-01-metallic-wood-strength-titanium-density.html

Behind the scenes: Making of "Hamilton" in Puerto Rico
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hamilton-puerto-rico-behind-the-scenes/?ftag=COS-05-
10aaa0h&utm_campaign=trueAnthem
%3A+Trending+Content&utm_content=5c396b6a04d3013677478fd3&utm_medium=trueAnthem
&utm_source=facebook

Additional Informational

The WIRED Guide to Commercial Human Space Flight
https://www.wired.com/story/wired-guide-commercial-space-flight/?

Space Photos of the Week: Jupiter Is a Storm-Eat-Storm World
https://www.wired.com/story/space-photos-of-the-week-jupiter-storms/?

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Weekly Science Report

DNA from a newly unearthed Alaska graveyard offers fresh

Physics, Earth and Space Sciences

Long Ago, Venus Looked Strikingly Similar to Earth

And Now, the Weather: Mars-like, With a Chance of

Environment, Climate Change and Alternative Energy

Amazon deforestation, already rising, may spike

Biological, Genetics and Medical Sciences

The ‘Complete’ Cancer Cure Story Is Both Bogus and Tragic

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