10 shipwrecks dating from 3000 BC to the World War II era found of the coast of Greece
By Stephen Smith, CBS News, March 15, 2024
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Drowned island the size of Iceland found off Brazil
News By Eos.org, Erin Martin-Jones published 19 hours ago
An undersea volcanic plateau in the southwestern Atlantic
was a tropical island 45 million years ago.
The open access paper is:
Srivastava, P., J. Murton, B., Sant’Anna, L.G., Florindo, F.,
Hassan, M.B., Taciro Mandacaru Guerra, J., de Assis Janasi,
V. and Jovane, L., 2023. R
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Giant volcano discovered on Mars
Rebecca McDonald, SETI Institute, PhysOrg, March 13, 2024
55th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference
Planetary Scientists Discover Giant Shield Volcano on Mars
SciNews, March 13, 2024
The talk's abstract is at:
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Recently, a preprint has been posted to the arXiv site that
disputes proposal that Be, La, U-rich spherules recovered form
Pacific Ocean Site CNEOS 2014-01-0 are from an extrasolar,
even "alien" origin.
Instead, they argued to be microtektites of terrestrial
lateritic sandstone.
The preprint is:
Desch, S., 2024. Be, La, U-rich spherules as
microtektites of terrestrial late
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Superconductivity scandal: the inside story of deception in a rising star’s physics lab
Ranga Dias claimed to have discovered the first room-temperature superconductors,
but the work was later retracted. By Dan Garisto, Nature, March 8, 2024
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Almost 500 Years Later, Scientists Confirm
What Killed The Aztecs
By Katie Serena, AllThat'Interesting, March 6, 2024
Almost 500 years after the society crumbled,
researchers have finally discovered what
happened to the Aztecs
The paper is:
Vågene, Å.J., Herbig, A., Campana, M.G., Robles
García, N.M., Warinner, C., Sabin, S., Spyrou, M.A.,
Andrades Valtueña, A., Huson,
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Tiny Worms Living Near Chernobyl Have
Evolved a Remarkable New Talent
Nature, ScienceAlert, March 7, 2024
The paywalled paper is:
Tintori, S.C., Caglar, D., Ortiz, P., Chyzhevskyi, I.,
Mousseau, T.A. and Rockman, M.V., 2024.
Environmental radiation exposure at Chornobyl
has not systematically affected the genomes or
chemical mutagen tolerance phenotypes of local
worms. Procee
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One of the more interesting message boards that I have found is the Professional Pilots Rumor Network message board. It is a message board where professional and private pilots get together and chat about the latest news and rumors in aviation. Although they Geek Out as only as practicing pilot can, it is all quite informative and fascinating. It is also scary in terms of how complicated aircraft
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These scientists built their own Stone Age tools to figure out how they were used.
Telltale fractures and microscopic wear marks should be applicable to real artifacts.
By Jenneifer Quellette, Ars Techinca, March 9, 2024
The open accesspaper is:
Iwase, A., Sano, K., Nagasaki, J., Otake, N. and Yamada, M., 2024.
Experiments with replicas of Early Upper Paleolithic edge-ground
stone a
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Pentagon UFO office finds 'no empirical evidence' for alien technology in new report
SpaceCom, March 8, 2024
The true believers are, as expected, not impressed
(in the background of their comments, hear:
Staring At The Stars - Dan Marfisi and Glenn Jordan (The X-Files)
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The report is:
Report on the Historical Record of U.S. Government Involvement
with Unidentif
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Interstellar Signal Linked to Aliens was Actually Just a Truck
The findings from a Johns Hopkins University-led team raise
doubts that materials pulled last year from the ocean are alien
materials from a 2014 meteor fireball
John Hopkins University, HUB, March 7, 2024
Seismic Rumble From an 'Alien Technology' Meteor Was
Actually a Passing Truck, Scientists Say The rumblings
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This Bird Is Half Male, Half Female, and Completely Stunning
By Emily Anthes, New York Times, March 7, 2024
This ‘Extremely Rare’ Bird Is Half Female, Half Male
The green honeycreeper is only the second of its species
ever observed with this condition—and the first recorded
in more than 100 years Margaret Osborne
Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine
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Mary Anning: Stamps celebrating pioneering fossil hunter revealed, BBC News
Mary Anning: the unsung hero of fossil discovery
By Marie-Claire Eylott< Natural History Museum
Mary Anning:, Wkipedia -
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Scientists take a step closer to resurrecting the woolly mammoth
Rob Stein, All Things Considered, NPR, MArch 6, 2024
Woolly mammoth de-extinction inches
closer after elephant stem cell breakthrough
By Sascha Pare, LiveScience
Scientists at the company Colossal Biosciences have derived
induced pluripotent stem cells from elephants, which they say
could boost efforts to resurrect woolly
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Scientific team drills into ground in Babbitt, hoping to strike helium reserve minnesota
By Jonah Kaplan, CBS Minnesota, February 14, 2024
CBS Minnesota
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Scientists reveal how first cells could have formed on Earth
by The Scripps Research Institute, PhysOrg, February 29, 2024
The paywalled paper is:
Pulletikurti, S., Veena, K.S., Yadav, M., Deniz, A.A. and
Krishnamurthy, R., 2024. Experimentally modeling the
emergence of prebiotically plausible phospholipid vesicles. Chem.
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Losing their tails provided our ape ancestors with an
evolutionary advantage, but we're still paying the price
by Laurence D. Hurst, PhysOrg, The Conversation, March 3, 2024
How humans lost their tails — and why the discovery
took 2.5 years to publish. An elegant run of experiments
in mice reveals the genetic changes that led humanity’s
ape ancestors to lose the appendage. By Ew
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Amateur Paleontologist and His Dog Uncover Rare Titanosaur Fossil in France
Geeta Pillai, BNN, March 4, 2024
Dog Walker's Bone Find Leads to Near-Complete Fossil Titanosaur Skeleton
Newsweek, February 14, 2024
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Head, M.L., Holman, L., Lanfear, R., Kahn, A.T. and Jennions, M.D.,
2015. The extent and consequences of p-hacking in science. PLoS
biology, 13(3), p.e1002106.
Botella, J. and Suero, M., 2020. Commentary: the extent and
consequences of P-Hacking in science. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, p.581910.
Here’s How Cornell Scientist Brian Wansink Turned Shoddy
Data Into Viral Studies Abo
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Gravitational anomalies reveal seamount 3 times
the height of world's tallest building
By Harry Baker, LivescienceCom, February 26, 2024
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Strange Metal From Beyond Our World,
Found in Ancient Treasure Stash
The Treasure of Villena, Iberia
Michelle Starr, ScienceAlert, February 2024
The paper is:
Rovira-Llorens, S., 2023 ¿Hierro meteorítico en el Tesoro de Villena?
(Meteoritic iron in the Villena Treasure?) Trabajos de Prehistoria 80
(2) julio-diciembre 2023, e19
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Met Office Warns of Possible Eruption in Reykjanes
Next Week, Ragnar Tómas,Iceland Review, February 23, 2024
Next Eruption Could Set Off With As Little As Half
Hour’s Notice, Andie Sophia Fontaine, ,Iceland Review, February 25, 2024
Iceland Update and Viewer Q&A: Feb 25
Livestream with Geologist Shawn Willsey
Feb 23, 2024 interview with volcanologist Þorvaldur
Þórðarson
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Live: Popocatépetl Volcano on the borders of Mexico Cit
Live in 4K: Erupting Popocatépetl Volcano on the borders of Mexico City
afarTV, Started streaming on February 4,2024
Less spectacular, but interesting in its own way.
Live Trains | Houston, Texas (Tower 26) PTZ + Chat
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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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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
Transactions o
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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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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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