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
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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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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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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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