News Desk

Earth’s First Continents Sank Into The Planet Before Rising Up Again
20th September 2022 | sciencealert.com | Ancient, Earth

A new examination of some of the oldest rocks in the world suggests that the first continents on Earth were unstable, and sank back into the mantle before making their way out again and reforming.

Massive study of ancient DNA reveals hidden history of civilization and language
16th September 2022 bigthink.com | Ancient, Humans, Tech

New techniques allowed researchers to analyze ancient DNA for the first time. The data they unearthed helps describe the genomic history of the area and reveals population movements from as far back as 10,000 years ago. It contains some big surprises regarding theories for the origin of languages.

Misinformation can occur with everything… just ask spiders
16th September 2022 cosmosmagazine.com | Animal Life, Humans

Our eight-legged friends can teach us something important about ourselves.

Tardigrades survive being dried out thanks to proteins found in no other animals on Earth
16th September 2022 | livescience.com | Animal Life, Weird

Tiny tardigrades can survive conditions that would kill most other forms of life. By expelling their body’s water and transforming into a seemingly lifeless ball called a tun, they enter a state of dried-up suspended animation in which they can survive for decades without food and water and withstand extreme temperatures, pressures and even the vacuum of space.

Saturn’s rings and tilt could be the product of an ancient, missing moon
16th September 2022 phys.org | Ancient, Space

Swirling around the planet’s equator, the rings of Saturn are a dead giveaway that the planet is spinning at a tilt.

This 380 Million-Year-Old Fossil Contains The Oldest Heart We’ve Ever Seen
16th September 2022 | sciencealert.com | Ancient, Animal Life, Earth

An ancient fossil from one of our planet’s earliest vertebrate organisms was found concealing an exciting surprise.

Scientists have started to examine whether “magic” mushrooms can help in the fight against obesity
14th September 2022 | psypost.org | Humans, Misc.

Recent studies have provided initial evidence that psilocybin-assisted therapy might be effective in the treatment of addiction, leading the scientists behind the new research to wonder whether it could also help those who are struggling to control food cravings.

It’s Not Just The Amazon Being Torn Apart. These Are The Forests The World Is Losing
14th September 2022 | sciencealert.com | Ancient, Animal Life, Earth

The devastating destruction that’s happening across the Amazon might be what comes to your mind first when thinking about deforestation – but it’s by no means the only place where dwindling forests are a worry, as a new study highlights.

Ancient skeleton found in Mexico cave threatened by train
14th September 2022 phys.org | Ancient, Humans

A prehistoric human skeleton has been found in a cave system that was flooded at the end of the last ice age 8,000 years ago, according to a cave-diving archaeologist on Mexico’s Caribbean coast.

LSD-assisted therapy induces rapid and lasting reductions in anxiety and depression symptoms, according to new research
11th September 2022 | psypost.org | Humans, Misc.

LSD-assisted therapy could provide benefits to patients struggling with anxiety disorders, according to new research published in Biological Psychiatry. The findings suggest that the psychedelic drug can produce notable reductions in anxiety and comorbid depression symptoms.

Donkey domestication happened 7,000 years ago in Africa: DNA study
11th September 2022 phys.org | Ancient, Animal Life, Humans

Despite transforming history as beasts of burden essential for transporting goods and people, the humble donkey has long been woefully understudied.

1.8m-year-old tooth of early human found on dig in Georgia
11th September 2022 | theguardian.com | Ancient, Humans

Student’s find provides new evidence region may be one of first places early humans settled outside Africa

Human brain cells made fewer genetic mistakes than Neanderthals’
7th September 2022 bigthink.com | Ancient, Humans

The brains of Neanderthals, a species that’s thought to have lived alongside humans for hundreds of years, were about as large as ours are. Still, researchers aren’t sure how similarly their brains functioned to ours. A recently published study reveals that several amino acids in the human brain — which only emerged after humans split away from Neanderthals — make our chromosomes far less prone to errors as they separate into identical pairs.

BREAKING NEWS: San Francisco Decriminalizes Psychedelics
7th September 2022 doubleblindmag.com | Humans, Misc.

Psychedelics like psilocybin and ayahuasca will be “among the lowest priorities” for law enforcement.

31,000-year-old skeleton missing its lower left leg is earliest known evidence of surgery, experts say
7th September 2022 | theguardian.com | Ancient, Humans

A 31,000-year-old skeleton missing its lower left leg and found in a remote Indonesian cave is believed to be the earliest known evidence of surgery, according to a peer-reviewed study that experts say rewrites understanding of human history.

Archaeologists discover monumental evidence of prehistoric hunting across Arabian desert
7th September 2022 phys.org | Ancient, Humans

Archaeologists at the University of Oxford’s School of Archaeology have used satellite imagery to identify and map more than 350 monumental hunting structures known as “kites” across northern Saudi Arabia and southern Iraq—most of which had never been previously documented.

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