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World’s Oldest Runestone Uncovered in Norway Spells Out a Mysterious Word
18th January 2023 | sciencealert.com | Ancient, Humans

Norwegian archaeologists believe they have found the world’s oldest runestone inscribed almost 2,000 years ago, making it several centuries older than previous discoveries, they announced on Tuesday.

World’s Oldest Meal Helps Unravel Mystery of Our Earliest Animal Ancestors
17th January 2023 scitechdaily.com | Ancient, Animal Life, Earth

Scientists from The Australian National University (ANU) have uncovered new insights into the physiology of our earliest animal ancestors by studying the contents of the last meal consumed by the Ediacara biota, the world’s oldest large organisms dating back 575 million years.

Squid and human brains develop the same way despite diverging 500 million years ago
17th January 2023 | livescience.com | Ancient, Animal Life, Humans

Scientists who watched nerve cells connect inside the eyes of growing squid have uncovered a remarkable secret — the cephalopods’ brains independently evolved to develop in the same way ours do.

Early humans: Tooth enamel reveals life histories
17th January 2023 phys.org | Ancient, Humans

Like in all land-dwelling vertebrates, tooth enamel mineralizes gradually in microscopically thin layers in humans too, represented by the striae of Retzius. The speed with which a human develops can be read from these Retzius lines. Physiological changes, such as birth, weaning or illness, for example, leave distinctive traces.

Altruism towards other species may have helped humans thrive, study finds
16th January 2023 | theguardian.com | Ancient, Animal Life, Humans

Children as young as two years old went out of their way to help dogs get toys and tasty treats that were placed beyond their reach, despite never having met the animals before, scientists found.

Fungi are ‘underloved and understudied’
16th January 2023 | bbc.co.uk | Earth, Humans

Mushrooms aren’t known for their ornamental value, but for this scientist, they are a thing of beauty. The plant pathologist is on a mission to spread the word that fungi need conservation just as much as plants and animals.

 

Ancient Siberian genomes reveal genetic backflow from North America across the Bering Sea
14th January 2023 phys.org | Ancient, Humans

Researchers reporting in Current Biology on January 12 describe genomes from ten individuals up to 7,500 years old that help to fill the gap and show gene flow from people moving in the opposite direction from North America to North Asia.

Fathers Have Been Older Than Mothers For 250,000 Years, Study Finds
14th January 2023 | sciencealert.com | Ancient, Humans

Scientists have discovered a new way to identify the average ages when men and women reproduced throughout human evolutionary history. By studying DNA mutations in modern humans, they discovered a window that let them peek 250,000 years back in time.

James Webb telescope traces arcs of dusty star formation
12th January 2023 | bbc.co.uk | Ancient, Space, Tech

It’s another stupendous image from the new superspace telescope James Webb.The picture shows NGC 346, a region about 200,000 light years from Earth where a lot of stars are being created.

 

‘It’s maybe time to rethink our idea of Neanderthals’
12th January 2023 | theguardian.com | Ancient, Humans

The Swedish geneticist on winning the Nobel prize, his laureate father and early man’s sensitive side.

What This Fearsome Weapon Reveals About Early Americans
12th January 2023 | wired.com | Ancient, Humans

The hottest West Coast tech 16,000 years ago was a “projectile point” for hunting game. Though tiny, the artifact tells an outsize tale.

Discovery of the temple of Poseidon located at the Kleidi site near Samikon in Greece
12th January 2023 phys.org | Ancient, Humans

The ancient Greek historian Strabo referred to the presence of an important shrine located on the west coast of the Peloponnese some 2,000 years ago. Remains of such an Archaic temple have now been uncovered at the Kleidi site near Samikon, which presumably once formed part of the sanctuary of Poseidon.

Who were Europe’s ‘bog bodies’? Deep look uncovers the secrets of this mysterious practice.
12th January 2023 | livescience.com | Ancient, Earth, Humans

A deep dive into “bog bodies” reveals that this practice started in southern Scandinavia during the Neolithic and spread throughout Northern Europe.

LIDAR reveals ancient Mesoamerican structures aligned for use as a 260-day calendar
10th January 2023 phys.org | Ancient, Humans, Tech

A trio of researchers from the Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, the University of Arizona, and Colgate University has found examples of Mesoamerican structures aligned for use as a 260-day calendar, built thousands of years ago along Mexico’s gulf coast.

Our Mental Picture of Space Seems to Expand Like The Universe
10th January 2023 | sciencealert.com | Humans, Space

Inside your brain there is a map of every bedroom you’ve slept in. Every kitchen you’ve cooked in. Every city you’ve worked in, every country you’ve holidayed in. There’s even a threadbare map of every Universe you’ve dreamt in

Humans’ big-brain genes may have come from ‘junk DNA’
9th January 2023 | livescience.com | Humans

Scientists once considered much of the human genome “junk” because large stretches of its genetic code don’t give rise to any proteins, the complex molecules tasked with keeping cells running. However, it’s since been discovered that this so-called junk DNA plays important roles in cells, and in a new study…

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