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08/23/2023

https://www.the-sun.com/tech/8865330/evidence-early-humans-extinct-wiped-ice-age-homo-erectus/

NEW evidence has led scientists to believe there was an unknown super cold ice age event that wiped out the first humans earlier than the widely known Ice Age. Marine sediment was sampled from the …

10/03/2022

The past and the future are tightly linked in conventional quantum mechanics. Perhaps too tightly. A tweak to the theory could let quantum possibilities increase as space expands.

08/06/2022

The “gravitational memory effect” predicts that a passing gravitational wave should forever alter the structure of space-time. Physicists have linked the phenomenon to fundamental cosmic symmetries…

07/12/2022

Octopuses are smart, playful and emotional in ways humans haven’t begun to understand until recently – just as companies are about to farm more of them than ever for food

07/06/2022

Spread over a vast, remote landscape in north-western Saudi Arabia are millennia-old archaeological remains that could change our understanding of prehistory.

07/03/2022

Fossils of early humans from a South African cave are 3.4 million to 3.6 million years old, a million years older than previously suspected. The discovery is changing our understanding of Australopithecus, an ancient hominin.

04/30/2022

at least this idea (on Galactic Centre Gamma Excess) is testable

Something deep in the heart of the Milky Way galaxy is glowing with gamma radiation, and nobody can figure out for sure what it might be.

04/24/2022

The researchers believe the underground city may be the largest in the world.

04/06/2022

Octopus build cities, establish hierarchies and show social group behaviours. Domesticating will mean creating a new kind of octopus, with ecological and ethical implications.

12/02/2021

Cousin Denisovan

Scientists have found 200,000 year old remains of a close relative to the modern human known as the Denisovans.

10/15/2021

repost for further consideration, does not constitute agreement.
https://www.pri.org/stories/2011-04-15/worlds-languages-traced-back-single-african-mother-tongue-scientists?fbclid=IwAR09zLUYCKWlVYJpZ3tmOrwChfvFPyBLND_wVknpowSICYOARRTAy8BXjJM

New Zealand researchers have traced every human language — from English to Mandarin — back to an ancestral language spoken in Africa 50,000 to 70,000 years ago.

10/13/2021

The remains of the ancient human belonged to a young female buried in a cave on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi.