News Desk

The Advantages of Psychedelic Prohibition
3rd May 2022 doubleblindmag.com | Humans, Misc.

As a legal psychedelic industry nears, facilitators fight for their right to remain underground.

Several ‘Echoing’ Black Holes Have Just Been Discovered in The Milky Way
3rd May 2022 | sciencealert.com | Humans, Space, Weird

Within the Milky Way, astronomers have just identified eight new examples of these echoing black holes. Previously, only two had been identified within our galaxy.

Prehistoric women were hunters and artists as well as mothers, book reveals
2nd May 2022 | theguardian.com | Ancient, Humans

From academic works giving women a supporting role to hunter-gather men, to Raquel Welch’s portrayal of a bikini-clad cavewoman in the 1966 film One Million Years BC, the gender division of the stone age is firmly entrenched in public consciousness.

This Is How Dark Matter And Regular Matter ‘Talk’ to Each Other, Claims Wild New Paper
2nd May 2022 | sciencealert.com | Humans, Space, Weird

Dark matter is one slippery substance. As far as we can tell, it has to exist for our current models of the Universe to work. But not only can we not see it, feel it, or interact with it in any way – we’re not even sure what dark matter really is.

The surprising reason Inca children were drugged before human sacrifice
2nd May 2022 bigthink.com | Ancient, Humans
A toxicological study shows that the victims of human sacrifice consumed coca leaves and ayahuasca before they were killed, but not for reasons we originally thought.
Farmer unearths ancient statue of serpent-crowned goddess in Gaza
29th April 2022 | livescience.com | Ancient, Humans

A local farmer has unearthed a 4,500-year-old limestone statue in Gaza, the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities run by the Islamist group Hamas announced on Tuesday (April 26).

Astronomers Are About to Make a Massive Announcement About Something in The Milky Way
29th April 2022 | sciencealert.com | Humans, Space

In two weeks’ time, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) is going to present the world with new information about our Milky Way.

Giant ichthyosaur’s huge tooth points to sea creatures with robust bite
29th April 2022 | theguardian.com | Ancient, Animal Life

Ichthyosaurs were large marine reptiles with an elongated, snakey shape. They first emerged after the end of the Permian extinction, an event also known as the “great dying”, which occurred about 250m years ago and which wiped out more than two-thirds of species on land and 96% of marine species.

People who hear about psilocybin-assisted therapy think it’s important to have a guide who has used psilocybin
28th April 2022 | psypost.org | Humans, Misc.

People with depressive symptoms appear to think it is relatively important that guides for psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy have personally used the psychedelic substance themselves, according to a new study published in the Journal of Psychoactive Drugs.

Before Stonehenge monuments, hunter-gatherers made use of open habitats
28th April 2022 phys.org | Ancient, Humans

Hunter-gatherers made use of open woodland conditions in the millennia before Stonehenge monuments were built, according to a study published April 27, 2022 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE. 

Venus And Jupiter Will Appear to ‘Nearly Collide’ in The Night Sky This Week
28th April 2022 | sciencealert.com | Humans, Space

In the early hours of 30 April 2022, we’ll have the chance to see Venus and Jupiter ‘nearly collide’ as they appear to move incredibly close together from our vantage point.

Neanderthals of the North reveal tolerance of humans to changing environmental conditions
27th April 2022 phys.org | Ancient, Humans

A multidisciplinary research team investigated whether Neanderthals were well adapted to life in the cold or preferred more temperate environmental conditions

Workers discover ‘unprecedented’ Phoenician necropolis in southern Spain
27th April 2022 | theguardian.com | Ancient, Humans

Workers upgrading water supplies in southern Spain have come across an “unprecedented” and well-preserved necropolis of subterranean limestone vaults where the Phoenicians who lived on the Iberian peninsula 2,500 years ago laid their dead.

We Have Even More Evidence Life’s Building Blocks Came to Earth From Space
27th April 2022 | sciencealert.com | Ancient, Earth, Humans, Space

We still don’t know just how the first life emerged on Earth. One suggestion is that the building blocks arrived here from space; now, a new study of several carbon-rich meteorites has added weight to this idea

The inner life of a lobster: Do invertebrates have emotions?
26th April 2022 bigthink.com | Animal Life, Humans
There is strong evidence that invertebrates are sentient beings.
Human ‘hobbit’ ancestor may be hiding in Indonesia, new controversial book claims
26th April 2022 | livescience.com | Ancient, Humans

Between about 700,000 years ago and 60,000 years ago, a diminutive early human walked the island of Flores, in what is now Indonesia.

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