News Desk

Insects Can Produce As Much Atmospheric Electric Charge as a Thunderstorm Cloud
27th October 2022 scitechdaily.com | Animal Life, Earth

Researchers measured the electrical fields near swarming honeybees and discovered that insects can produce as much atmospheric electric charge as a thunderstorm cloud.

Why Is The Milky Way Wobbling? How Cosmic Ripples Reveal An Ancient Galactic Collision Ripping Apart An Iconic Constellation
27th October 2022 | forbes.com | Ancient, Space

It’s Milky Way season. If you ever wanted to see the arc of our galaxy stretching across the night sky, get yourself to a dark sky destination away from light pollution in the next couple of weeks, and you’ll get a great view as soon as it gets dark.

A new spin on the paleo diet: Ancient humans routinely practiced cannibalism
27th October 2022 bigthink.com | Ancient, Humans

Our Paleolithic ancestors ate each other. We (Homo sapiens) did it. Neanderthals did it. Homo erectus and Homo antecessor did it. It’s highly likely that almost all hominins have practised cannibalism in some form. The only questions are “why” and “how much”?

Archaeologists unearth 2,700-year-old rock carvings in Iraq
27th October 2022 | theguardian.com | Ancient, Humans

Archaeologists in northern Iraq have unearthed 2,700-year-old rock carvings featuring war scenes and trees from the Assyrian empire, an archaeologist has said.

Ancient 15,000-Year-Old Viruses Found in Melting Tibetan Glaciers
27th October 2022 | sciencealert.com | Ancient, Earth

Ancient creatures are emerging from the cold storage of melting permafrost, almost like something out of a horror movie.

Asteroid that wiped out dinosaurs triggered global mega-tsunami
26th October 2022 | theguardian.com | Ancient, Animal Life, Earth, Space

It is no surprise that a 14km-wide asteroid slamming into the Gulf of Mexico would generate one hell of a tsunami, but this is the first time anyone has worked out how big and how far-reaching it would have been.

Tree Rings Chronicle a Mysterious Cosmic Storm That Strikes Every Thousand Years
26th October 2022 | sciencealert.com | Earth, Humans

The history of Earth’s bombardment with cosmic radiation is written in the trees.

Sinuses offer new way of studying the evolution of ancient humans
26th October 2022 | nhm.ac.uk | Ancient, Humans

The changing shape of the frontal sinuses is helping to reveal more about how modern humans, and our ancient relatives, evolved.

‘Personal Use’ of Heroin, MDMA and Cocaine Has Been Decriminalised in the ACT
26th October 2022 | vice.com | Humans, Misc.

People caught with small amounts of illicit drugs, like cocaine, ice, heroin and speed, will be spared criminal charges in the Australian Capital Territory from 2023, after the territory government became the first in Australia to agree to decriminalising personal possession.

Native American Church Asks Congress for Peyote Funding
25th October 2022 doubleblindmag.com | Ancient, Earth, Humans

Leaders of the Native American Church of North America (NACNA) held multiple meetings with congressional offices last month to advocate that federal funding be dedicated toward efforts to preserve habitats where peyote can be grown.

50,000-year-old DNA reveals the first-ever look at a Neanderthal family
25th October 2022 | livescience.com | Ancient, Humans

Nestled in a cave in the snowy Altai Mountains of Siberia, fragmented bones and teeth have revealed the first-ever glimpse of a Neanderthal family. More than 50,000 years ago, a group of adults and kids died while sheltering at their hunting camp…

Geomagnetic fields reveal the truth behind Biblical narratives
25th October 2022 phys.org | Ancient, Humans, Tech

A joint study by TAU and the Hebrew University, involving 20 researchers from different countries and disciplines, has accurately dated 21 destruction layers at 17 archaeological sites in Israel by reconstructing the direction and/or intensity of the earth’s magnetic field recorded in burnt remnants.

UK had at least two genetically distinct human groups at end of last ice age, DNA reveals
25th October 2022 | theguardian.com | Ancient, Humans

Britain was home to at least two genetically distinct groups of humans at the end of the last ice age, the oldest human DNA from the UK has revealed.

Scientists Have Developed a New Explanation for Consciousness
25th October 2022 scitechdaily.com | Humans

According to a new theory, choices are formed unconsciously and become conscious around half a second later.

World’s oldest complete star map, lost for millennia, found inside medieval manuscript
23rd October 2022 | livescience.com | Ancient, Humans, Space

The map segment, which was found beneath the text on a sheet of medieval parchment, is thought to be a copy of the long-lost star catalog of the second century B.C. Greek astronomer Hipparchus, who made the earliest known attempt to chart the entire night sky.

Central Asia identified as a key region for human ancestors
23rd October 2022 phys.org | Ancient, Humans

The interior of Central Asia has been identified as a key route for some of the earliest hominin migrations across Asia in a new study led by Dr. Emma Finestone, Assistant Curator of Human Origins at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History…

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