News Desk

New Bill Would Force DEA to Let Patients Use Psychedelics (and Cannabis)
11th April 2023 doubleblindmag.com | Humans, Misc.

Lawmakers want the DEA to clarify that the seriously ill can access psychedelics under “Right to Try” laws.

Making the ‘invisible’ visible: New technique analyzing archaeological bones
11th April 2023 phys.org | Ancient, Humans, Tech

An innovative method developed by an Italian team is emerging that will revolutionize the field of archaeology and radiocarbon dating and protect our cultural heritage. The researchers have used it with surprising results on archaeological bones, making the ‘invisible’ visible.

Earth’s Core Appears to Be Wrapped in an Unexpected, Ancient Structure
11th April 2023 | sciencealert.com | Ancient, Earth

Scientists have stitched together the most high-resolution map yet of the underlying geology beneath Earth’s Southern Hemisphere, revealing something previously undiscovered: an ancient ocean floor that may wrap around the core. See the research here.

Fragment of a 1,750-year-old New Testament translation discovered
8th April 2023 phys.org | Ancient, Humans

About 1,300 years ago a scribe in Palestine took a book of the Gospels inscribed with a Syriac text and erased it. See the research here.

Venus has almost 50 times as many volcanoes as previously thought
8th April 2023 | sciencenews.org | Ancient, Space

The hellscape of Venus is riddled with even more volcanoes than scientists thought. See the research here.

People were taking drugs in Spain 3,000 years ago, study finds
8th April 2023 | bbc.co.uk | Ancient, Humans

People were getting high on hallucinogenic drugs in Spain around 3,000 years ago, according to new research.

Aliens could be hiding in ‘terminator zones’ on planets with eternal night
6th April 2023 | space.com | Ancient, Earth, Space

In a new study, astronomers propose that extraterrestrial life could exist in so-called terminator zones, the border between light and dark halves of an exoplanet.

See the oldest human ever found in Egypt in stunning new facial approximation
6th April 2023 | livescience.com | Ancient, Humans, Tech

See the oldest human ever found in Egypt in a stunning new facial approximation.

Scientists accidentally discover photosynthesis doesn’t work exactly like we thought it did
5th April 2023 | livescience.com | Earth, Humans

One of the most well-studied chemical processes in nature, photosynthesis, may not work quite how we thought it did, scientists have accidentally discovered. See the study here.

Palace pits with severed hands studied in ancient Egyptian site
5th April 2023 phys.org | Ancient, Humans

The first physical evidence of an ancient practice previously known only from iconographic and literary sources—12 to 18 right hands buried beneath pits in an ancient Egyptian palace. See the study here.

‘Snowball Earth’ May Not Have Been An Endless Frozen Wasteland After All
5th April 2023 | sciencealert.com | Ancient, Earth

A new study by researchers from China and the UK is the latest to suggest ‘Snowball Earth’ wasn’t completely covered in ice – and might have even exhibited habitable open-ocean conditions far away from the equator.

World’s first artificial shooting star display to be launched by Japanese space start up
3rd April 2023 news.sky.com | Humans, Space, Tech

Chief executive and founder of space company ALE, Dr Lena Okajima, says she wants to “inspire wonder and spark scientific curiosity” with an awe-inducing multi-coloured meteor shower, but also hopes to collect crucial atmospheric data that helps humankind tackle climate change.

What did Homo sapiens eat 170,000 years ago? Roasted, supersized land snails
3rd April 2023 | sciencenews.org | Ancient, Animal Life, Humans

Until now, the oldest evidence of Homo sapiens eating land snails dated to roughly 49,000 years ago in Africa and 36,000 years ago in Europe. But tens of thousands of years earlier, people at a southern African rock shelter roasted these slimy, chewy — and nutritious — creepers that can grow as big as an adult’s hand, researchers report in the April 15 Quaternary Science Reviews.

Psychedelic treatment linked to substantial reduction in alcohol misuse and PTSD symptoms in US Special Operations Forces Veterans
3rd April 2023 | psypost.org | Humans, Misc.

A study of U.S. Special Operations Forces Veterans participating in an ibogaine and 5-MeO-DMT treatment in Mexico showed that participants treated with these psychedelic substances showed a significant reduction in alcohol misuse 1 month after the start of the treatment.

Stressed plants ‘scream,’ and it sounds like popping bubble wrap
3rd April 2023 | livescience.com | Earth, Humans, Weird

When deprived of water or snipped with scissors, plants emit a flurry of staccato “screams” that are too high-frequency for humans to hear, a study suggests. When lowered into a range that human ears can detect, these stress-induced pops sound like someone furiously tap dancing across a field of bubble wrap.

Horses Transformed Native American Life Far Earlier Than We Thought, New Study Reveals
3rd April 2023 | sciencealert.com | Ancient, Animal Life, Humans

Native American people integrated horses into their communities much earlier than European colonial records suggest, according to an innovative study that combined archaeological and genetic analysis with Indigenous oral traditions.

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