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Easter Island Origins - 2024 NOVA Episode
New evidence reveals the real story of Easter Island
and the ancient builders of its iconic stone heads.
Watch now while it is open access before it is paywalled.
Future NOVA specials are advertised with show dates at:
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Exhibitions, Conferences, Lectures, Journals
Fossil reveals 240 million year-old 'dragon'
By Victoria Gill, BBC News, February 22, 2024
The open access paper is:
Spiekman, N.S.F., Wang, w., Zhao. L., Rieppell, O., Fraser, N.C, and Li, C., 2024,
Dinocephalosaurus orientalis Li, 2003: a remarkable marine archosauromorph from
the Middle Triassic of southwestern China. Earth and Environmental Science Journal
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Undeciphered script from Easter Island
may predate European colonization
By Tom Metcalfe, LiveScience, February 09, 2024
The open access paper is:
Ferrara, S., Tassoni, L., Kromer, B., Wacker, L.,
Friedrich, M., Tonini, F., Lastilla, L., Ravanelli,
R. and Talamo, S., 2024. The invention of writing
on Rapa Nui (Easter Island). New radiocarbon dates
on the Rongorongo script. Scientifi
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Ancient History
90,000-year-old human footprints found on a Moroccan beach
are some of the oldest and best preserved in the world
By Jennifer Nalewicki, LiveScience, January 29, 2024
90,000-year-old human footprints found on Moroccan beach
by Bob Yirka, PhysOrg, January 31, 2024
The open access paper is:
Sedrati, M., Morales, J.A., Duveau, J., Mrini, A.E., Mayoral, E.,
Diaz-Martínez, I., Anthony
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A shallow lake in Canada could point to the origin of life on Earth
By Ayurella Horn-Muller, CNN, February 17, 2024
Scientists go to Canada to study the kind of lake where they say life may have arisen
By AlanBoyle, Geekwire, January 23, 2024
The Open Access paper is:
Haas, S., Sinclair, K.P. and Catling, D.C., 2024. Biogeochemical
explanations for the world’s most phosphate-rich
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Japan to launch world’s first wooden satellite to combat space pollution
The environmentally friendly LignoSat probe 8 set to orbit this
summer 8 has been created to combat harmful aluminium particles
Robin McKee, The Guardian, February 17, 2024
Could Wooden Satellites Reduce Space Junk? The
First Is Set to Launch Next Year
NASA and Japan plan to test a biodegradable
satellite made of
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Stone Age megastructure found submerged in the Baltic Sea wasn’t formed by nature,
scientists say By Ashley Strickland, CNN, February 12, 2024
The open access paper is:
Geersen, J., Bradtmöller, M., Schneider von Deimling, J., Feldens, P., Auer,
J., Held, P., Lohrberg, A., Supka, R., Hoffmann, J.J.L., Eriksen, B.V. and
Rabbel, W., 2024. A submerged Stone Age hunting architecture fro
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DNA From Beethoven's Hair Reveals Surprise Some 200 Years Later
By Mike McRae, Science Alert, February 18, 2024
The open access paper is:
Begg, T.J.A., Schmidt, A., Kocher, A., Larmuseau, M.H., Runfeldt,
G., Maier, P.A., Wilson, J.D., Barquera, R., Maj, C., Szolek, A. and
Sager, M., 2023. Genomic analyses of hair from Ludwig van Beethoven.
Current Biology, 33(8), pp.1431-1447.
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Ancient Fossil That Baffled Scientists For Decades Finally
Reveals Its True Identity, Michelle Starr, Nature, February 16, 2024
280-Million-Year-Old Mystery Solved As Forged Fossil's
"Skin" Identified As Paint The "soft tissues" of this partial
forgery were painted on, but it isn't a total fake.
Rachael Funnell, IFL Science, February 16, 2024
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Chip by Chip, This Ice Cream Flavor Is Melting Away
Chocolate chip ice cream, once a year-round staple,
has fallen out of favor. New York Times,
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Why Wikipedia Is So Tough on Bigfoot
By Stephen Harrison, Slate Magazine, Feb 13, 2024
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Paper Lens
Homo sapiens already reached northwest Europe more than 45,000 years ago
Prof. Dr. Jean-Jacques Hublin, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig
A new study provides evidence that modern humans, coexisted
in the same region with Neanderthals for thousands of years
Arkeonews, February 14, 2024
Archaeology: Homo sapiens crossed the Alps much earlier than assumed
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Lost 'Atlantis' continent off Australia may have been home for half a
million humans 70,000 years ago By Emma Bryce, LiveScience, January 16, 2024
Sonar mapping revealed signs of rivers and freshwater lakes across a
now-sunken landscape almost twice the size of the UK, where humans
could once have thrived.
The "Atlantis" comparison to any prehistoric submerged land
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The unsettling scourge of obituary spam
In the wake of death, AI-generated obituaries litter
search results, turning even private individuals into
clickbait. By Mia Sato, the verge, February 12, 2024
Tracking Down the YouTube Channel that Stole My Mom’s Obituary
Everything is profitable on the internet. Even the death of a stranger.
By Ben Testi, i,vh ben thinking, December 9, 2023
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Beneath Earth's Surface, Clues to Life's Origin
By Maya Wei-Haas, Qanta Magazine, January 4, 2024
The Lost City Hydrothermal Field
US National Science Foundation Award Abstract # 1536702
Collaborative Research: Investigating the Lost City
as an ultramafic urban center of the subseafloor,
fueled by energy and carbon from the mantle
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There is an interesting paper about the tracks of footprints of birds, pterosaurs,
dinosaurs found below the K/Pg boundary in the Las Encinas Formation, State
of Coahuila, Mexico. Although it is in Spanish, a more or less usable translation
can be obtained using document option of Goggle Translate at
The open access paper is:
Serrano-Branas, C., Espinosa-Chavez, B., Flores-Ventura, J.,
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Scientists discover an alarming change in Antarctica’s
past that could spell devastating future sea level rise
By Laura Paddison, CNN, February 8, 2024
Rapid melting in West Antarctica is ‘unavoidable,’ with
potentially disastrous consequences for sea level rise, study finds
By Rachel Ramirez, CNN, October 23, 2023
The open access paper is:
Grieman, M., Nehrbass-Ahles, C., Hoff
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Ancient frog had a belly full of eggs in oldest fossil discovery
of its kind. This unusual frog fossil seems to be an amphibian that
died in the process of mating by Matthew Rozsa, Salon February 9, 2024
The open access paper is:
Baoxia Du, Jing Zhang, Raúl Orencio Gómez, Liping Dong,
Mingzhen Zhang, Xiangtong Lei , Aijing Li, and Shuang Dai,
2024, A cretaceous frog with egg from
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Open access paper:
Adriana Dutkiewicz, Andrew S. Merdith, Alan S. Collins, Ben Mather,
Lauren Ilano, Sabin Zahirovic, R. Dietmar Müller; Duration of Sturtian
“Snowball Earth” glaciation linked to exceptionally low mid-ocean ridge
outgassing. Geology 2024; doi:
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Gusher of gas deep in mine stokes interest in natural hydrogen
Flow of clean-burning fuel in Albanian mine dwarfs rates of
other seeps, Eric hand, Science, February 8, 2024
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Big Bear Bald Eagle Live Nest - Cam 1 - FOBBV CAM
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Sea level rise could drastically erode California beaches by the end of the century
NPR, Morning Edition, Alice Woelfle, August 22, 2023
The open access paper is:
Vitousek, S., Vos, K., Splinter, K.D., Erikson, L. and Barnard, P.L., 2023. A
model integrating satellite-derived shoreline observations for predicting fine-scale
shoreline response to waves and sea-level rise across large
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Iceland Feb 8 eruption Threatens Blue Lagoon: Livestream w/ Geologist Shawn Willsey
A volcanic eruption has started at the Sundhnúksgígar crater row 8.2.2024
Hraun rennur yfir Grindavíkurveg - video of lava flow
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Shawn Willsey Livestream-Feb 7: Iceland & Kilauea Update and Much More
Series of strong quakes on Reykjanes Ridge south of Iceland
Iceland Monitor, February 7, 2024
Grindavík More Damaged Than Previously Thought
Iceland Monitor, February 3, 2024
Giant Crevasse Uncovered Under Grindavík Sports Hall
Iceland Monitor, February 7, 2024
Reykjanes Could Erupt Again Next Week
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Hi,
This is the weirdest usage of crowd sourcing that I have
yet seen. Tracking aircraft using crowd sourcing is not
what I would expect someone to do.
What is ADSBx?
How is it legal to track private planes like Elon Musk's?
Twitter’s decision to ban accounts that tracked private
planes, including one tracking its new CEO, has prompted
questions about what flight informat
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Paper Lens
Libyan desert’s yellow glass: how we discovered the origin of
these rare and mysterious shards, Elizaveta Kovaleva Lecturer,
University of the Western Cape The Conversation, November 20, 2023
Strange yellow glass found in Libyan desert may have
formed from lost meteor impact By Elizaveta Kovaleva
Live Science, December 03, 2023
The paper is:
Kovaleva, E., Helmy, H., Belkacim, S
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South Tampa mystery: Where is the sound coming from? Neighbors investigate
By Nina Kravinsky, National public Radio, January 4, 2024
Mysterious Bass Sounds Irking Florida Residents
Might Just Be Fish Mating Loudly
Sarah Kuta, SMithsonian MAgazine, January 31, 2024
The Tampa community raised money to fund an investigation,
and now, a local scientist will install underwater microphon
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We know what ‘foo fighters’ that buzzed Second World War pilots really
were, say scientists Sarah Knapton, The Telegraph, February 2024
However, the source of paper, Journal of Modern Physics, is considered a
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What Were the Mysterious “Foo Fighters” Sighted by WWII Night Flyers?
Something strange was following the Beaufighter crews of the 415th
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Crazy people. At least it is too wet to be a problem in Louisiana.
Meet the DIY Diggers Who Can’t Stop Making ‘Hobby Tunnels’
Bloomberg, February 3, 2024
Diggers and Digging Enthusiasts
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