Weekly Science Report

August 23, 2019

 
“I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask, "Mother, what was war?"
Eve Merriam
 

Introduction
 
Steve Detwiler created this publication with the support of Graham Hancock and the late 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.
 
I hope you enjoy this publication and that the content challenges and inspires you!
 
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News Articles
 
Paleontology, Evolution and Prehistoric Studies
 
A 42,000-Year-Old Man Finally Goes Home
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/mungo-man-finally-goes-home-180972835/
 
Ancient Anthropod Named After Star Wars' Millennium Falcon
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a28566578/oceanic-predator-millennium-falcon/
 
 
 
 

History
 
Why more U.S. Catholics should know about St. Alberto Hurtado, S.J.
https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2019/08/16/why-more-us-catholics-should-know-about-st-
alberto-hurtado-sj
 
Where the Resistance Helped Plan the Liberation of Paris
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/15/travel/paris-liberation-museum-ww2.html?smid=nytcore-ios-
share
 
And Then Job Said Unto the Lord: You Can’t Be Serious
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/09/job-edward-l-greenstein/594769/
 
My Grandfather, A Killer
https://www.npr.org/2019/08/18/749810572/my-grandfather-a-killer?sc=tw
 
The 1619 Project details the legacy of slavery in America
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/the-1619-project-details-the-legacy-of-slavery-in-america?
utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=pbsofficial&utm_campaign=newshour&fbclid=IwAR3QhF3
nWyxwSk3hPYv8x5mZBCDvOVpQEbsKXe9xsby_1l1zT7_YORlPCLk
 
Volunteers are preparing the USS Arizona Memorial for its eventual reopening
https://www.stripes.com/news/us/volunteers-are-preparing-the-uss-arizona-memorial-for-its-
eventual-reopening-1.594903
 
How a British royal’s monumental errors made India’s partition more painful
https://theconversation.com/how-a-british-royals-monumental-errors-made-indias-partition-more-
painful-81657
 
Nordic Bronze Age attracted wide variety of migrants to Denmark
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-08/p-nba081519.php

Archaeology
 
Climate change 'could expose more ancient monuments and ruins'
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-49413435
 
Dinas Dinlle dig uncovers Iron Age roundhouse and Roman coins
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-49397328?
ns_mchannel=social&ns_campaign=bbc_wales_news&ns_linkname=wales&ns_source=facebook
 
Archaeologists find human arm bone at Ness of Brodgar in Orkney
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-49415533?
fbclid=IwAR0Z9MvR0KAl6igyZ7T9uzQNsM_5-4cfOLG5tbreM73Ox4-5ZKevJVl1CDo
 
The Met Reviews Items It Received from a Dealer, Now a Looting Suspect
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/18/arts/design/india-met-museum-accused-looter.html?
smid=nytcore-ios-share
 
Archaeologists make fresh discoveries at hidden 2,500-year-old Cardiff fort
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/caerau-ely-hillfort-cardiff-history-16684490?
utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebar
 
Wooden Stone Age platform found on seabed off Isle of Wight
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-hampshire-49405708?fbclid=IwAR2DzeankD7S_ZbA7oW-
Z7s_TLrw2vBx7mFgYmkugbhZVj_ayb3jpORnLgU
 
Mexico wants to run a tourist train through its Mayan heartland — should it?
https://theconversation.com/mexico-wants-to-run-a-tourist-train-through-its-mayan-heartland-
should-it-118090
 
I’m one of hundreds of archaeologists exiled from Syria who’s mourning what the war is
costing us
https://theconversation.com/im-one-of-hundreds-of-archaeologists-exiled-from-syria-whos-
mourning-what-the-war-is-costing-us-116325
 
Drought reveals long lost 'Spanish Stonehenge' in Extremadura reservoir
https://www.thelocal.es/20190822/drought-reveals-long-lost-spanish-stone-henge-in-cacares-
reservoir?
fbclid=IwAR0bBjCcz6hxFq3NjXHN83RL5ACNQi49AvBpQ0TZAEF6pDCFE4DDA6Y38Fw
 
An Archaeological Puzzle on the Danube
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/20/science/archaeology-europe-migration.html
 
STONE AGE BOAT BUILDING SITE WITH TECHNOLOGY NOT SEEN FOR THOUSANDS
MORE YEARS DISCOVERED BY UNDERWATER ARCHEOLOGISTS
https://www.newsweek.com/stone-age-boat-building-site-discovered-1455420
 
Biblical War Revealed on 2,800-Year-Old Stone Altar
https://www.livescience.com/alter-tells-story-of-biblical-war.html
 
Mural from 3,800 years ago unveiled by Peru archaeologists
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-49407795
 
New light on contested identity of medieval skeleton found at Prague Castle
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-08/uob-nlo082219.php

Egyptology
 
Nothing to report
 
 
 
 

General Science
 
Nothing to report

Physics, Earth and Space Sciences

 

Here Come the Space Tugs, Ready to Tidy Up Earth's Orbits

https://www.wired.com/story/here-come-the-space-tugs-ready-to-tidy-up-earths-orbits/?
bxid=5bd6790424c17c1048020acb&cndid=41291302&esrc=twitter-newsletter-
c&source=EDT_WIR_NEWSLETTER_0_DAILY_ZZ&utm_brand=wired&utm_campaign=aud-
dev&utm_mailing=WIR_Daily_082219&utm_medium=email&utm_source=nl&utm_term=list1_p
2
 
America's Largest Asteroid Impact Left a Trail of Destruction Across the Eastern United States
https://www.space.com/chesapeake-bay-meteor-impact-crater.html?utm_source=notification
 
Cave Diver Risks All To Explore Places 'Where Nobody Has Ever Been'
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/08/19/752248582/cave-diver-risks-all-to-explore-
places-where-nobody-has-ever-been?sc=tw
 
Black hole gobbles up neutron star, causing ripples in space and time
https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/20/world/black-hole-neutron-star-scn-trnd/index.html?
utm_medium=social&utm_term=link&utm_content=2019-08-
20T17%3A05%3A45&utm_source=fbCNN&fbclid=IwAR0Z1X3D4w-
IdshnVcM0D_qhhy0aqfU9ksTtkM4csmx51k9-wQ_VjCl736M
 
Nuclear Propulsion Could Be 'Game-Changer' for Space Exploration, NASA Chief Says
https://www.space.com/nuclear-propulsion-future-spacecraft-nasa-chief.html?
utm_source=notification
 

Astronauts’ brains are subject to long-lasting damage due to

low dose space radiation

https://theconversation.com/astronauts-brains-are-subject-to-
long-lasting-damage-due-to-low-dose-space-radiation-121407

 
Astronaut accessed estranged spouse's bank account in possible first criminal allegation from space

https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/23/politics/nasa-astronaut-bank-
account-first-criminal-allegation-space/index.html?
utm_medium=social&utm_term=link&utm_content=2019-08-
24T15%3A30%3A08&utm_source=fbCNN&fbclid=IwAR10L
atddTpetOqXwu0JDWqXNV-e9ugBMVd-
L1a_0qdGUXtSF16wCEeqtbs

 
Astronauts’ brains are subject to long-lasting damage due to low dose space radiation
https://theconversation.com/astronauts-brains-are-subject-to-long-lasting-damage-due-to-low-dose-
space-radiation-121407
 
Study shows some exoplanets may have greater variety of life than exists on Earth
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-08/gc-sss082119.php
 
Complex quantum teleportation achieved for the first time
https://phys.org/news/2019-08-complex-quantum-teleportation.html
 
Habitable type planets found around nearby small mass star
https://phys.org/news/2019-08-habitable-planets-nearby-small-mass.html
 
Saturn Could Lose Its Rings in Less Than 100 Million Years
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/saturns-rings-are-slowly-disappearing-
180972856/
 

Environment, Climate Change and Alternative Energy

Sources
 
How To Handle A Massive Seaweed Invasion? Yucatán Towns Get Creative

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/08/18/751250934/
how-to-handle-a-massive-seaweed-invasion-yucat-n-towns-get-
creative?sc=tw
 
At the bottom of a glacier in Greenland, climate scientists find troubling signs
https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/19/weather/greenland-nasa-climate-battle-intl/index.html
 
Maybe the Way To Control Locusts Is By Growing Crops They Don't Like
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2019/08/19/752361368/maybe-the-way-to-control-
locusts-is-by-growing-crops-they-dont-like?sc=tw
 
Scientists extract hydrogen gas from oil and bitumen, giving potential pollution-free energy
https://phys.org/news/2019-08-scientists-hydrogen-gas-oil-bitumen.html?
fbclid=IwAR2AQCsym4U0AcwV9g2G0FCPnP8xE0TAmnR_LUbB_5XeYWwRWjXchc_aWfk
 
New model agrees with old: Nuclear war between US and Russia would result in nuclear winter
https://phys.org/news/2019-08-nuclear-war-russia-result-winter.html
 
Drilling deeper wells is a band-aid solution to US groundwater woes
https://theconversation.com/drilling-deeper-wells-is-a-band-aid-solution-to-us-groundwater-woes-
121219
 
Mega-cloud from Canadian wildfires will help model impacts of nuclear war
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-08/ru-mfc080219.php
 
Restoring soil can help address climate change
https://theconversation.com/restoring-soil-can-help-address-climate-change-121733
 
We use satellites to measure water scarcity
https://theconversation.com/we-use-satellites-to-measure-water-scarcity-120055
 
'Floating Coast' Reads Like A Eulogy To The Natural World — With A Sliver Of Hope
https://www.npr.org/2019/08/21/751237150/floating-coast-reads-like-a-eulogy-to-the-natural-
world-with-a-sliver-of-hope?sc=tw
 
Could Rust Be a New Source of Renewable Energy?
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/a28555278/rust-electricity/

Biological, Genetics and Medical Sciences

Why a Promising, Potent Cancer Therapy Isn't Used in the US

https://www.wired.com/story/why-a-promising-potent-cancer-
therapy-isnt-used-in-the-us/?
bxid=5bd6790424c17c1048020acb&cndid=41291302&esrc=twi
tter-newsletter-
c&source=EDT_WIR_NEWSLETTER_0_DAILY_ZZ&utm_
brand=wired&utm_campaign=aud-
dev&utm_mailing=WIR_Daily_082119&utm_medium=email
&utm_source=nl&utm_term=list1_p1
 
You’ve Been Drinking Microplastics, But Don’t Worry—Yet

https://www.wired.com/story/microplastic-who-study/?
bxid=5bd6790424c17c1048020acb&cndid=41291302&esrc=twi
tter-newsletter-
c&source=EDT_WIR_NEWSLETTER_0_DAILY_ZZ&utm_
brand=wired&utm_campaign=aud-
dev&utm_mailing=WIR_Daily_082219&utm_medium=email
&utm_source=nl&utm_term=list1_p4
 
Discovery of anti-opioid pathway offers new route to designing safer pain medications
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-08/sri-doa081619.php
 
Ancient tropical plants produce cones in UK for first time on record
https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/22/uk/tropical-plant-uk-intl-scli-gbr/index.html?
utm_term=link&utm_content=2019-08-
22T23%3A15%3A05&utm_source=twCNNi&utm_medium=social
 
Lack Of Diversity In Genetic Databases Hampers Research
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/08/22/752890414/lack-of-diversity-in-genetic-
databases-hampers-research?sc=tw
 
Scientists Attempt Controversial Experiment To Edit DNA In Human Sperm Using CRISPR
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/08/22/746321083/scientists-attempt-controversial-
experiment-to-edit-dna-in-human-sperm-using-cri?sc=tw
 
Scientists Are Building a Real-Life Version of the Starship Enterprise's Life Scanner

https://www.livescience.com/corkscrew-light-reveals-alien-
life.html?utm_source=notification
 
Discovery of anti-opioid pathway offers new route to designing
safer pain medications

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-08/sri-
doa081619.php
 
Bioprinting complex living tissue in just a few seconds
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-08/epfd-bcl082319.php
 
Researchers advance organ-on-chip technology to advance drug development
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-08/coec-rao082219.php
 
A wearable system to assist visually impaired people
https://techxplore.com/news/2019-08-wearable-visually-impaired-people.html
 
Scientists a step closer to saving northern white rhino from extinction
https://phys.org/news/2019-08-scientists-closer-northern-white-rhino.html
 
 
 
 

Other
 
Scientist says 'one theory' about the Loch Ness monster is plausible
https://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/scientist-says-one-theory-about-the-loch-ness-monster-is-
plausible-1-4988018?
fbclid=IwAR17P8ux1jAkBnMduxZcYfbLCVqe87vykKIB0n0xsVC0TUxtTu_tTLct9qs
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Additional Informational
 
ICCROM 2018 Annual Report
https://www.iccrom.org/report/annual-report-2018?
fbclid=IwAR2o6XrfukSQXIUXWY6LhHdye1gwJxFxh-HodaT9wWY9NoTssrKTHKl910c
 
National Park Service, Ten Essentials with you can help you be prepared for minor injuries, sudden
weather changes, or unexpected delays
https://www.nps.gov/articles/10essentials.htm
 
These Museums Helped Welcome Immigrants and Refugees to their Community, and Yours Can
Too!
https://www.aam-us.org/2019/08/19/these-museums-helped-welcome-immigrants-and-refugees-to-
their-community-and-yours-can-too/