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The Mysterious Origins of King Tutankhamen’s Space Rock Dagger Just Got Clearer
23rd February 2022 | sciencealert.com | Ancient, Humans, Tech

You may already know the legend of King Tutankhamen’s space dagger – an iron weapon forged from the rock of meteorites, and entombed with the ancient Egyptian pharaoh. Now a new study has revealed more details about this most fascinating and mysterious of artifacts

New study offers a detailed glimpse into the otherworldly encounters produced by the psychedelic drug DMT
23rd February 2022 | psypost.org | Humans, Misc.

A new study published in Frontiers in Psychology provides an in-depth look at the types of otherworldly experiences that people have when they take a high dose of the psychedelic substance dimethyltryptamine (DMT). The findings provide new insight on the complex dimensions of the DMT experience.

Brain imaging study provides new details on how memories are used to guide decisions
21st February 2022 | psypost.org | Humans, Misc.

New neuroimaging research sheds light on the brain regions involved in extracting structure from past experiences when making decisions. The study, which appears in Cell Reports, indicates that the hippocampus and orbitofrontal cortex play key roles in this process.

The story of how Swahili became Africa’s most spoken language
21st February 2022 phys.org | Earth, Humans

Once just an obscure island dialect of an African Bantu tongue, Swahili has evolved into Africa’s most internationally recognized language. It is peer to the few languages of the world that boast over 200 million users.

Psilocybin use associated with lowered odds of having been arrested, study finds
17th February 2022 | psypost.org | Humans, Misc.

The use of psilocybin — the active component of “magic” mushrooms — is associated with a decreased likelihood of engaging in criminal behavior, according to new research. The findings have been published in the Journal of Psychopharmacology.

Psychedelics can alter a person’s core metaphysical beliefs for as long as six months after use, study suggests
14th February 2022 | psypost.org | Humans, Misc.

Findings from the journal Scientific Reports suggest that psychedelic drugs can alter a person’s core beliefs about the nature of reality, consciousness, and free will.

The 5,000-year-old human bone found in the River Thames
14th February 2022 | bbc.co.uk | Ancient, Humans

Lying on the pebbles and rocks of the riverbed at low tide was a human femur, or upper leg bone.

Lines written by ‘naughty pupils’ among 18,000 ancient pottery fragments found in Egypt
11th February 2022 edition.cnn.com | Ancient, Humans

The 2,000-year-old fragments also included receipts, school texts, trade information and lists of names, according to researchers at Germany’s University of Tübingen, which carried out the excavation.

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Prehistoric drum is top ancient find: British Museum
11th February 2022 phys.org | Ancient, Humans

The 5,000-year-old drum carved from chalk is set to go on display for the first time in a major exhibition about the Neolithic site of Stonehenge and its historical context.

Life could exist on planet orbiting ‘white dwarf’ star
11th February 2022 | bbc.co.uk | Animal Life, Humans, Space

Researchers believe there may be a planet that could sustain life, in the vicinity of a dying sun.

 

Scientists Made a ‘Fish’ From Human Cardiac Cells, And It Swims Like a Beating Heart
11th February 2022 | sciencealert.com | Humans, Tech, Weird

With its tail flipping rhythmically from side to side, this strange synthetic fish scoots around in its salt and glucose solution, using the same power as our beating hearts.

Supercomputers Simulated a Black Hole And Found Something We’ve Never Seen Before
10th February 2022 | sciencealert.com | Humans, Space, Tech

While black holes might always be black, they do occasionally emit some intense bursts of light from just outside their event horizon. Previously, what exactly caused these flares had been a mystery to science

Are Psychedelics the Future of Pain Relief?
10th February 2022 | vice.com | Humans, Misc.

Some scientists believe that LSD and psilocybin could treat everything from cluster headaches to fibromyalgia.

Researcher develops Google for archaeologists
10th February 2022 phys.org | Ancient, Humans, Tech

An incredible quantity of archaeological reports are stored in digital archives. If you want to search for information in them, you have to do this manually. And that is a real chore.

Neanderthal extinction not caused by brutal wipe out
10th February 2022 | bbc.co.uk | Ancient, Humans

New fossils are challenging ideas that modern humans wiped out Neanderthals soon after arriving from Africa.

Did an exploding comet help end an ancient Native American culture?
7th February 2022 | washingtonpost.com | Ancient, Humans

Experts think the violent blast incinerated Hopewell settlements in what is now Ohio.

Image from:File:Map of Muskingum County Ohio With Municipal and Township Labels.PNG (Wiki Commons)

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