Weekly Science Report

January 26, 2018

“To the people of antiquity Egypt appeared as the very mother of magic”.
Lewis Spence, Egypt

Introduction

Steve Detwiler created this publication with the support of Graham Hancock and John Anthony
West to share news and information on various disciplines to include but not limited to
paleontology, space sciences, genetics and archaeology. His goal behind sharing this
publication has always been very simple, by sharing knowledge we can make our world a better
place. This publication is Mr. Detwiler’s contribution to bring people together and share ideas
and discoveries with his fellow humans.

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News Articles

Paleontology, Evolution and Prehistoric Studies

Ingredients for life revealed in meteorites that fell to Earth

https://eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-01/dbnl-ifl010918.php
Newly Unearthed Remains Reveal the Complexity of Levantine Hunter-Gatherers

https://www.seeker.com/archaeology/newly-unearthed-remains-reveal-the-complexity-of-levantine-hunter-
gatherers

Controversial femur could belong to ancient human relative

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-00972-z

Scientists reconstruct face of 9,000 year-old Greek teenager

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-greece-archaeology-dawn/scientists-reconstruct-face-of-9000-year-old-
greek-teenager-idUSKBN1FC1XK?utm_campaign=trueAnthem
%3A+Trending+Content&utm_content=5a67957204d3016f26a8ae44&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_sourc
e=facebook

Scientists discover oldest known modern human fossil outside of Africa

https://phys.org/news/2018-01-scientists-oldest-modern-human-fossil.html

Ancient Eurasian DNA sequencing is revealing links with modern humans

https://phys.org/news/2018-01-ancient-eurasian-dna-sequencing-revealing.html

The role of cranial modification in identity formation

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-01/uocp-tro012218.php

Ancient lake reveals a colorful past

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-01/uoy-alr012618.php

Researchers pose revolutionary theory on horse evolution

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-01/nyio-rpr012518.php

History

2,000-year-old Dead Sea Scroll deciphered, revealing 2nd Temple power struggles

https://www.timesofisrael.com/2000-year-old-dead-sea-scroll-deciphered-revealing-2nd-temple-power-
struggles/
Did the fabled Phoenicians ever actually exist?

https://www.spectator.co.uk/2018/01/did-the-fabled-phoenicians-ever-actually-exist/

Globetrotting Vikings: The Quest for Constantinople

http://www.history.com/news/globetrotting-vikings-the-quest-for-constantinople?
cmpid=_FBPAGE_HISTORY_20170103_764853659

Reimagining women’s rights in Islam

http://www.atimes.com/article/reimagining-womens-rights-islam/

Huge protest in Greece over use of ‘Macedonia’ in name dispute

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/huge-protest-greece-over-use-macedonia-name-dispute-n839736?
cid=sm_npd_nn_fb_nw

Holocaust Remembrance Day and the Cost of Doing Nothing

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/the-cost-of-doing-nothing_uk_5a61b5ede4b05fd5dc6065fa

In Catalonia, the nameless dead raise old animosities toward Franco

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/catalonia-dead-franco-animosities-margaret-evans-1.4499802

Anti-Semitism: Learning the lessons of history

https://en.unesco.org/courier/correo-digital/anti-semitism-learning-lessons-history

Rising river Seine causes closures at Musée du Louvre

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/paris-floods-threat-causes-closures-at-musee-du-louvre

He was named a college president. Only 100 years ago, the KKK attacked his grandfather

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/community-voices/article196709384.html

Jan. 26, 1700: Northwest Quake Unleashes Trans-Pacific Tsunami

https://www.wired.com/2010/01/0126northwest-quake-japan-tsunami/

3,500 Occult Manuscripts Will Be Digitized & Made Freely Available Online, Thanks to Da Vinci Code Author
Dan Brown
http://www.openculture.com/2017/12/3500-occult-manuscripts-will-be-digitized-made-freely-available-
online.html

Religion isn’t the enemy of science: it’s been inspiring scientists for centuries

https://theconversation.com/amp/religion-isnt-the-enemy-of-science-its-been-inspiring-scientists-for-
centuries-90190?__twitter_impression=true

15th-century manuscript with 'alien' characters finally decoded

http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2018/01/26/15th-century-manuscript-with-alien-characters-finally-decoded.html

New Zora Neale Hurston Book Chronicles Last Known Survivor of Transatlantic Slave Trade

http://wlrn.org/post/new-zora-neale-hurston-book-chronicles-last-known-survivor-transatlantic-slave-trade

Alcatraz inmates survived infamous 1962 escape, letter suggests

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/alcatraz-inmates-survived-infamous-1962-escape-letter-suggests/ar-
AAv6E9z?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=SL5FDHP

Violent Protests In India Follow Release Of Controversial Bollywood Epic

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/01/25/580569671/violent-protests-in-india-follow-release-of-
controversial-bollywood-epic?
utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=201
80125

The Museum of Whose Bible? On the Perils of Turning Theology into History

http://www.ancientjewreview.com/articles/2018/1/24/the-museum-of-whose-bible-on-the-perils-of-turning-
theology-into-history

Archaeology

Korean NGO to restore UNESCO heritage site in Cambodia

http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/national/2018/01/17/0301000000AEN20180117003900315.html
The Chinese History That Is Written in Bone

https://www.sapiens.org/archaeology/chinese-oracle-bones-history/?
utm_content=buffer561fb&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Inca Farming Terraces Restored in Peru

https://www.archaeology.org/news/6300-180124-peru-inca-farming?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Teotihuacan May Have Been Renamed by the Spanish

https://www.archaeology.org/news/6298-180124-mexico-teotihuacan-aztecs

Wreck found by reporter may be last American slave ship, archaeologists say

http://www.al.com/news/mobile/index.ssf/2018/01/alcom_reporter_may_have_found.html

New app developed by Turkish university digitalizes Istanbul’s cultural heritage

https://www.dailysabah.com/istanbul/2018/01/16/new-app-developed-by-turkish-university-digitalizes-istanbuls-
cultural-heritage

Scythian Prince’s Sprawling Tomb Found in the “Siberian Valley of the Kings”
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/princes-sprawling-tomb-siberian-valley-kings-
180967889/#RUmT0JpLy7C6ovAg.01

Norway’s Melting Glaciers Release Over 2,000 Artifacts

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/2000-artifacts-pulled-edge-norways-melting-glaciers-
180967949/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=socialmedia

Decapitated Iron Age Skull Found by Dog Walker Is Likely Evidence of Ancient Ritual Sacrifice

http://www.newsweek.com/decapitated-iron-age-skull-found-dog-walker-likely-evidence-ancient-ritual-787468

Could This Newfound Cave Hold More Dead Sea Scrolls?

https://www.livescience.com/61496-dead-sea-scrolls-cave-found.html

Egyptology

New excavation works led by Zahi Hawas take place in Luxor

http://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/40627/New-excavation-works-led-by-Zahi-Hawas-take-place-in

Nefertiti was no pharaoh, says renowned Egyptologist

https://phys.org/news/2018-01-nefertiti-pharaoh-renowned-egyptologist.html

Egypt seeks donations to finish, maintain museum

https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2018/01/egypt-donations-grand-egyptian-museum-
construction.html

General Science

This nation might be single-handedly changing the future of transport

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/10/this-nation-might-be-single-handedly-changing-the-future-of-
transport?utm_content=bufferaba03&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

The Dangers of Keeping Women Out of Tech

https://www.wired.com/story/dangers-keeping-women-out-of-tech/?
CNDID=41291302&mbid=nl_012618_daily_list3_p1

Montana becomes first state to implement net neutrality after FCC repeal

http://thehill.com/policy/technology/370133-montana-becomes-first-state-to-implement-net-neutrality-rules-
following-fcc

How Google’s Quantum Computer Could Change the World

https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-googles-quantum-computer-could-change-the-world-1508158847?
mod=djmc_foearticles&Paid&nan_pid=1863441863&ad_id=7681962
Physics, Earth and Space Sciences

Atlas 5 launches missile-detecting satellite

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/atlas-5-rocket-launch-air-force-launches-missile-detecting-satellite/

How to keep humans from ruining the search for life on Mars

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/manned-mission-mars-humans-microbes-life

Astronomers Trace Fast Radio Bursts to Extreme Cosmic Neighborhood

https://www.wired.com/story/astronomers-trace-fast-radio-bursts-to-extreme-cosmic-neighborhood/?
mbid=nl_011318_daily_list3_p4

Scientific Theory and the Multiverse Madness

https://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2018/01/22/579666359/scientific-theory-and-the-multiverse-madness?
utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20
180122

The Little Rocket That Could Sends Real Satellites to Space

https://www.wired.com/story/rocket-lab-still-testing/?CNDID=41291302&mbid=nl_012218_daily_list1_p4

How Smallsats Could Make a Big Difference for NASA and NOAA

https://www.wired.com/story/how-smallsats-could-make-a-big-difference-for-federal-science/?
mbid=nl_012318_daily_longdek_list3_p5

Why Does Nature Love To Blow Things Up?

https://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2018/01/19/578860150/why-does-nature-love-to-blow-things-up

An unknown object is making our solar system wobble

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/07/an-unknown-object-is-making-our-solar-system-wobble?
utm_content=bufferbaabd&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Our oceans are in crisis. Here’s how technology could save them
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/01/our-oceans-are-in-crisis-heres-how-technology-could-save-them?
utm_content=buffer31978&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Scientists find oxidized iron deep within the Earth's interior (Update)

https://m.phys.org/news/2018-01-scientists-oxidized-iron-deep-earth.html

NASA: "Potentially Hazardous Asteroid" has "zero" chance of hitting Earth

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/super-bowl-asteroid-headed-for-earth-2018/

Aboard the F.G. Walton Smith

https://features.miami.edu/2017/fg-walton-smith/index.html

Trump administration wants to end NASA funding for the International Space Station by 2025

https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/24/16930154/nasa-international-space-station-president-trump-budget-
request-2025

Tiny crystals could help predict volcanic eruptions

https://eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-01/uoq-tcc012118.php

Chinese volunteers spend 200 days on virtual 'moon base'

https://phys.org/news/2018-01-chinese-volunteers-days-virtual-moon.html

The Astronaut Who Might Actually Get Us to Mars

https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/the-astronaut-who-might-actually-get-us-to-mars/

Neil deGrasse Tyson's Cosmos Revival Is Finally Getting A Second Season

https://io9.gizmodo.com/neil-degrasse-tysons-cosmos-revival-is-finally-getting-1822056919?
utm_campaign=socialflow_io9_facebook&utm_source=io9_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

Environment, Climate Change and Alternative Energy Sources

Spy oysters and night-vision goggles: How France is fighting back against food thieves
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/spy-oysters-night-vision-goggles-how-france-fighting-back-against-
n839076?cid=sm_npd_nn_fb_nw

Could Giant “Solar Rigs” Floating On the Ocean Convert Seawater To Hydrogen Fuel?
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/could-giant-solar-rigs-floating-on-ocean-convert-seawater-to-
hydrogen-fuel-180967750/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=socialmedia

Official Who Allowed Tree Cutting By Redskins Owner Is Named National Parks Director

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/01/24/580448974/official-who-allowed-tree-cutting-by-redskins-
owner-named-national-parks-directo?
utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20180
124

Trump unhappy over Zinke's Florida offshore drilling exemption: report

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-unhappy-over-zinke-s-florida-offshore-drilling-exemption-
report/ar-AAuZkUr?ocid=ob-fb-enus-580

Trump imposes 30 percent tariff on solar panel imports

http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/370171-trump-imposes-30-tariffs-on-solar-panel-imports

John Coleman, Weather Channel founder who doubted manmade climate change, dies at 83

https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2018/01/21/john-coleman-weather-
channel-founder-and-climate-change-doubter-dies-at-83/?__twitter_impression=true

Climate and tech pose the biggest risks to our world in 2018

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/01/the-biggest-risks-in-2018-will-be-environmental-and-technological/

Meet the Amateur Scientist Who Discovered Climate Change

https://www.wired.com/story/meet-the-amateur-scientist-who-discovered-climate-change/?
mbid=nl_012318_daily_longdek_list1_p3

Macron at Davos: I will shut all coal-fired power stations by 2021

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/01/macron-at-davos-i-will-shut-all-coal-fired-power-stations-by-2021?
utm_content=buffer09eea&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Tropical forests used to absorb carbon. Not any more

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/10/tropical-forests-used-to-absorb-carbon-not-any-more?
utm_content=buffer6bb65&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

New fuel cell technology runs on solid carbon

https://eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-01/dnl-nfc011818.php

World's first electric container barges to sail from European ports this summer

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jan/24/worlds-first-electric-container-barges-to-sail-from-
european-ports-this-summer?CMP=fb_gu

What Happens If We Start Solar Geo-Engineering—And Then Suddenly Stop?

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/01/what-happens-if-we-start-geo-engineeringand-then-
suddenly-stop/551354/

Biological, Genetics and Medical Sciences

Clashes Over the Future of Gene Therapy at the US' Biggest Biotech Meeting

https://www.wired.com/story/clashes-over-the-future-of-gene-therapy-at-the-uss-biggest-biotech-meeting/?
mbid=nl_011318_daily_list1_p3

The Second Coming of Ultrasound

https://www.wired.com/story/the-second-coming-of-ultrasound/?
CNDID=41291302&mbid=nl_012218_daily_list1_p1

Darpa Wants to Build an Image Search Engine out of DNA

https://www.wired.com/story/darpa-wants-to-build-an-image-search-engine-out-of-dna/?
mbid=nl_012518_daily_shortdek_list3_p1

The First American CRISPR Trial in Humans Will Target Cancer

https://futurism.com/first-american-human-crispr-trial-target-cancer/

What Good Is Crispr if It Can't Get Where It Needs to Go?

https://www.wired.com/story/what-good-is-crispr-if-it-cant-get-where-it-needs-to-go/?
CNDID=41291302&mbid=nl_012618_daily_list3_p4

Researchers modify common flu virus to attack pancreatic cancer

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-01-common-flu-virus-pancreatic-cancer.amp

Augmented reality system lets doctors see under patients' skin without the scalpel

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-01-augmented-reality-doctors-patients-skin.html

How the ‘Religious Freedom Division’ Threatens LGBT Health—and Science

https://www.wired.com/story/how-the-religious-freedom-division-threatens-lgbt-healthand-science/?
CNDID=41291302&mbid=nl_012418_daily_list3_p4

Are There Zombie Viruses In The Thawing Permafrost?

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/01/24/575974220/are-there-zombie-viruses-in-the-thawing-
permafrost?
utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20
180124

Scientists successfully clone monkeys; are humans up next?

https://apnews.com/38beefc3b75745a4b6105d48958a38b5

Other

Deep in the Desert, the Hyperloop Comes to Life

https://www.wired.com/story/virgin-hyperloop-one-engineering/?mbid=nl_011318_daily_list1_p1

Investors Join Calls for Facebook, Twitter to Take More Responsibility

https://www.wired.com/story/investors-join-calls-for-facebook-twitter-to-take-more-responsibility/?
mbid=nl_011318_daily_list3_p3

Digital Solutions Can Help Even the Poorest Nations Prosper

https://www.wired.com/story/digital-solutions-can-help-even-the-poorest-nations-prosper/?
CNDID=41291302&mbid=nl_012218_daily_list3_p5
The Diminishing Role of Facts in American Public Life

https://www.rand.org/blog/2018/01/the-diminishing-role-of-facts-in-american-public-life.html?
adbsc=social_TruthDecay_20180121_2081221&adbid=954896335978733568&adbpl=tw&adbpr=22545453

Elon Musk Wants to Dig Another Tunnel Under LA

https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-boring-company-culver-city/?
mbid=nl_012318_daily_longdek_list1_p1

Remembering Ursula Le Guin, Imaginer of Difficult Worlds

https://www.wired.com/story/remembering-ursula-le-guin/?
CNDID=41291302&mbid=nl_012418_daily_list3_p1

Additional Informational

An Important Update From Google Lunar XPRIZE

https://lunar.xprize.org/news/blog/important-update-google-lunar-xprize

Fascism: A Warning

https://www.amazon.com/Fascism-Warning-Madeleine-Albright/dp/0062802186/ref=sr_1_1?
s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1517090058&sr=1-1&keywords=Fascism%3A+A+Warning+by+Madeleine+Albright
How can PIOs help build public trust in science Webcast, Feb 17

https://www.eurekalert.org/seminar/