"Who’s your daddy? An unknown hominin species that bred with early human ancestors when they migrated from Africa to Australasia has been identified through genome mapping of living humans.
The genome analysis also questions previous findings that modern humans populated Asia in two waves from their origin in Africa, finding instead a common origin for all populations in the Asia-Pacific
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"Social media users mocked astrophysicist and pop culture darling Neil deGrasse Tyson on Wednesday for proposing the creation of a "virtual country" where all policy is based on "weight of evidence."
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I took this picture of a "staircase" located on the sidewall of the Acropolis @ Ek Balam.
Even though some steps were unrestored it reflected a nice clean quetzal like chirp response to a hand-clap. These steps appeared to be steeper than those of El Castillo. If intended to be used as a staircase, why so steep?
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If so, I'd like to get in touch with the programmer to make few changes:
"Elon Musk has said that there is only a “one in billions” chance that we’re not living in a computer simulation.
Our lives are almost certainly being conducted within an artificial world powered by AI and highly-powered computers, like in The Matrix, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO suggested at a tech conference in
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This:
The upside is we will finally find out if there is anything else inside the GP
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When it comes to cuisine, diversity improves things...
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It's the moment we've all been dreading. Initial findings from a massive federal study, released on Thursday, suggest that radio-frequency (RF) radiation, the type emitted by cellphones, can cause cancer.
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Egypt has been working extremely hard to demonstrate the country is safe to visit for Western holidaymakers - but it appears today's crash shows it is clearly not
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A handful of scientists around the United States are trying to do something that some people find disturbing: make embryos that are part human, part animal.But some scientists and bioethicists worry the creation of these interspecies embryos crosses the line. "You're getting into unsettling ground that I think is damaging to our sense of humanity," says Stuart Newman, a professor o
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A human embryo has been grown in a laboratory for twice the length of time than was previously possible in a breakthrough that could “revolutionise” medicine but also raises fresh ethical questions about when life begins.
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Human life begins in bright flash of light as a sperm meets an egg, scientists have shown for the first time, after capturing the astonishing ‘fireworks’ on film.
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That's the thesis of a must-read article in First Things magazine, in which William A. Wilson accumulates evidence that a lot of published research is false. But that's not even the worst part.
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An unexplained carpet of foamy bubbles filled streets in the centre of the southern Japanese city of Fukuoka in the early hours of Saturday morning – shortly after tremors from a devastating earthquake of magnitude 7.3 shook the town.
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“Collecting the Google Earth of Sound. An international, trans-disciplinary team of researchers take us to Thessaloniki, Greece to capture the ethereal sounds of ancient Byzantine churches. What they found will forever change the way you think about sound and space.”
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CAIRO — Radar scans of King Tut's tomb have revealed two spaces on the north and east chambers of the pharaonic mausoleum that could contain the "discovery of the century," Egypt's antiquities ministry said Thursday.
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Marine experts believe they may have discovered the noise is linked to something very natural but just a little bit rude - fish farts - that happen at dusk and dawn.
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The paper's perceived references to intelligent design have provoked anger and calls for a boycott of the journal
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The ritual has similarities with the building of shrines or cairns, a human ritual that has been happening for thousands of years and across civilisations
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Fido vs Spot — Animal vs Robot
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Rick Baudé Wrote:
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So we'll
> have to see where it goes from here.
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Belief in moral-watching, all-knowing, punitive gods might have helped human societies grow far beyond small, close-knit groups, a new study shows. Researchers who ran an experiment with a total of 591 people in eight different small-scale societies around the world found that people who believed their deity of choice knew about their misdeeds and would punish them were more likely to play fairly
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Hans Wrote:
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> aaaah what? Oh wait are you saying the fins and so
> forth of those old cars were inspired by aliens??
No, just kidding
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Hans Wrote:
> the aliens were shipwrecked or otherwise
> deprived of their technology
Not totally deprived:
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And why build it out of limestone rather than, say, aluminum
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> Nothing in print then from the prof suggesting > that it is , rather than has rough similarities to , a sonic crystal .
Rough?
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> Experts in acoustics are not likely to be the
> best judge of Mayan architecture .
No but they know a sonic crystal when they see one.
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> does not make the suggestion that the colonnade
> was a sonic crystal any more likely .
According to a conversation I had with a Professor of Acoustics/Dynamics (who authored a paper on the physics of the chirp sound at CI) its a sonic crystal.
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, or fanciful suggestions connecting the
> colonnade at Chichen Itza with contemporary noise
> barriers .
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> Archaeoacoustics doesn't restrict itself to the
> built environment .Franco -Iberian caves have
> been part of the study e.g. and of course rock
> art sites which are not usually part of a monument
Regarding rock art acoustics:
Waller’s findings on paintings within Utah canyons also suggest that a
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