News Desk

New study aims to break the taboo surrounding spirituality
14th March 2023 medicalxpress.com | Humans, Misc.

“We live in a society where religion and spirituality are taboo and something we rarely talk about with each other. What we believe in, why we are here, what happens when we die. And we might be led to believe that it’s not important, or something we shouldn’t concern ourselves with in the healthcare system. But our study convincingly shows that these topics are important…”

Oceans May Have Once Graced Venus Before It Became a Hell Planet
13th March 2023 | sciencealert.com | Ancient, Space

A new study has found that if Venus ever did have habitable conditions, and liquid water on its surface, it was a long time ago, and lasted only briefly before the planet transformed into the parched, arid world it is today.

Rare galaxy with three black holes leads astronomers to the most massive objects in the universe
13th March 2023 | livescience.com | Ancient, Humans, Space

Glimpsed only occasionally at the hearts of massive clusters of galaxies, ultramassive black holes are some of the largest and most elusive objects in the universe…Now, researchers studying a rare galaxy merger with three supermassive black holes at its center may have finally discovered the origins of these cosmic monsters.

Ancient platypus-like fossil could rewrite the history of egg-laying mammals
11th March 2023 | livescience.com | Ancient, Animal Life, Earth

Fossils of a 70 million-year-old platypus relative called Patagorhynchus pascuali found in South America show that egg-laying mammals evolved on more than one continent.

Bronze Age craftspeople tempered steel more than 1,000 years before the Romans did it
10th March 2023 | livescience.com | Ancient, Humans

Archaeologists have analyzed 2,900-year-old stone carvings and a long-ignored chisel from the Iberian Peninsula, revealing that local craftspeople produced steel long before previously thought.

Remains of ancient temple with hieroglyphic inscriptions discovered in Sudan
9th March 2023 | livescience.com | Ancient, Humans

Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of a temple dating back around 2,700 years, to a time when a kingdom called Kush ruled over a vast area, including what is now Sudan, Egypt and parts of the Middle East.

Oldest reference to Norse god Odin found in Danish treasure
9th March 2023 phys.org | Ancient, Humans

Scandinavian scientists said Wednesday that they have identified the oldest-known inscription referencing the Norse god Odin on part of a gold disc unearthed in western Denmark in 2020.

Weird Lifeform From 500 Million Years Ago Wasn’t an Animal at All
9th March 2023 | sciencealert.com | Ancient, Earth

We’ve got a curious case of mistaken identity to report. Fossils previously believed to have been left by prehistoric tentacle-bearing aquatic invertebrates called Bryozoans may, in fact have been created by a different source: seaweed. See research here.

Orkney Neolithic project to carry out final digs
9th March 2023 | bbc.co.uk | Ancient, Humans

An archaeology project is to make its final excavation of a 5,000-year-old Neolithic site in Orkney next year.

Human temporal lobes are not very large in comparison with other primates
8th March 2023 phys.org | Ancient, Animal Life, Humans

It had been thought to date that the species Homo sapiens has disproportionately large temporal lobes compared to other anthropoid primates, the group including anthropomorphic monkeys and apes. A new study, one of whose authors is Emiliano Bruner, a paleoneurologist at the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH), contradicts that hypothesis.

Astronomers spotted shock waves shaking the web of the universe for the first time
7th March 2023 | sciencenews.org | Ancient, Humans, Space

For the first time, astronomers have caught a glimpse of shock waves rippling along strands of the cosmic web — the enormous tangle of galaxies, gas and dark matter that fills the observable universe.

Bronze Age ice skates with bone blades discovered in China
7th March 2023 | livescience.com | Ancient, Humans

Ice skates made of bone have been unearthed from a Bronze Age tomb in western China, suggesting an ancient technological exchange between the east and west of Eurasia.

Mysterious Comb Unearthed in England Has a Gruesome Origin Story
7th March 2023 | sciencealert.com | Ancient, Humans, Weird

A peculiarly gruesome artifact has been uncovered during archaeological digs in England, hearkening back to long lost cultural practices that today we can only try to imagine.

Psychedelic Pharma Has Arrived—But Will It Really Be Different from Big Pharma?
6th March 2023 doubleblindmag.com | Humans, Misc.

Psychedelic businesses have an opportunity to disrupt existing paradigms with regenerative economic practices. The question is: will they take it?

Runes were just as advanced as Roman alphabet writing, says researcher
6th March 2023 phys.org | Ancient, Humans

In the Middle Ages, the Roman alphabet and runes lived side by side. A new doctoral thesis challenges the notion that runes represent more of an oral and less of a learned form of written language.

Ocean treaty: Historic agreement reached after decade of talks
6th March 2023 | bbc.co.uk | Animal Life, Earth, Humans

Nations have reached a historic agreement to protect the world’s oceans following 10 years of negotiations. The High Seas Treaty aims to place 30% of the seas into protected areas by 2030, to safeguard and recuperate marine nature.

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