Weekly Science Report

October 27, 2017

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and
catastrophe.
H.G. Wells

Table of Contents
Introduction ....................................................................................................................... 2
News Articles .................................................................................................................... 3
Paleontology, Evolution and Prehistoric Studies ............................................................ 3
History ............................................................................................................................. 4
Archaeology .................................................................................................................... 5
Egyptology ....................................................................................................................... 6
General Science .............................................................................................................. 7
Physics, Earth and Space Sciences ............................................................................... 8
Environment, Climate Change and Alternative Energy Sources ................................... 9
Biological, Genetics and Medical Sciences .................................................................. 10
Other .............................................................................................................................. 11
Additional Informational ................................................................................................ 12
 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. Detwilers 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!

Steve Detwiler
 News Articles

Paleontology, Evolution and Prehistoric Studies

Science Found The Ancient Dude Who Started Herpes

https://www.vice.com/en_au/article/zmznka/science-found-the-ancient-dude-that-started-
herpes?utm_campaign=global&utm_source=vicefbanz

Ancient skull 'oldest tsunami victim'

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-41757232

The Guanches originated from North Africa, shows DNA-study

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-10/su-tgo102617.php

Crops evolving 10 millennia before experts thought

http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/fall-2017/article/crops-evolving-10-millennia-before-experts-
thought
History

Hidden in a Basement for 70 Years, Newly Discovered Documents Shed Light on Jewish Life and
Culture Before WWII
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/cache-newly-discovered-documents-sheds-light-jewish-
art-and-resistance-during-wwii-180966972/?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=socialmedia

SIXBOOKSTOREADABOUTTHEHISTORYOFIMMIGRATIONINAMERICA
https://www.smithsoniansecondopinion.org/immigration-america/six-books-read-about-history-immigration-america-
180965198/?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=socialmedia

David Adjaye and Ron Arad unanimously selected to design UK Holocaust and Memorial Centre
http://theartnewspaper.com/news/david-adjaye-and-ron-arad-unanimously-selected-to-design-uk-
holocaust-and-memorial-centre

Trump releases some, but not all, JFK assassination records

http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/26/politics/jfk-assassination-files-classified-document-release-
donald-trump/index.html?sr=fbCNN102617jfk-assassination-files-classified-document-release-
donald-trump0608PMStory

Trump to shrink two Utah national monuments, senator says

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-to-shrink-two-utah-national-monuments-senator-
says/ar-AAu8D6V?ocid=ob-fb-enus-580

Are You Descended From Witches? New Digital Document Could Help You Find Out
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/are-you-descended-witches-new-digital-document-
could-help-you-find-out-180960952/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=socialmedia

How the 1867 Medicine Lodge Treaty Changed the Plains Indian Tribes Forever
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-1867-medicine-lodge-treaty-changed-plains-indian-
tribes-forever-180965357/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=socialmedia

House tied to 1692 Salem witch trials rises from near ruin
https://www.boston.com/news/history/2017/10/29/framingham-house-tied-to-salem-witch-trials-
rises-from-near-ruin?s_campaign=bcom%3Asocialflow%3Afacebook

FSU researcher: Modern civilization doesn't diminish violence

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-10/fsu-frm102717.php

The Bakhshali manuscript: The world's oldest zero?

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-10/uoa-tbm102517.php

Eight Historical Archives That Will Spill New Secrets

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/nine-historical-archives-that-will-spill-new-secrets-
966931/

The Nazis Plan to Infiltrate Los Angeles And the Man Who Kept Them at Bay
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/stopping-nazi-plots-1930s-los-angeles-180966961/
Archaeology

Archaeologists Discover Trove of Cuneiform Tablets in Northern Iraq

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-cuneiform-tablets-northern-iraq-
180966923/#K9sfJGlTi5oibECz.01

Italy gets back looted mosaic from Emperor Caligula's ship

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-italy-culture-caligula/italy-gets-back-looted-mosaic-from-
emperor-caligulas-ship-idUSKBN1CP23I?platform=hootsuite

UKs Cultural Protection Fund makes headway in conflict zones

http://theartnewspaper.com/news/uk's-cultural-protection-fund-makes-headway-in-conflict-zones

Heres what they found in the Old North Church tomb

https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2017/10/27/heres-what-they-found-in-the-old-north-
church-tomb?s_campaign=bcom%3Asocialflow%3Afacebook

Rare Mariners Astrolabe Found in Shipwreck Near Oman

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/rare-mariners-astrolabe-found-shipwreck-near-
oman-2-180966980/#z8IEkSu4eXy0z5Yl.01

Young Gazans mobilize to save Palestine's oldest archaeological site

https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2017/10/palestine-youth-protest-tell-es-sakan-old-
historic-dredging.html

New research on the Caribbean's largest concentration of indigenous pre-Columbian rock art
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-10/uol-nro102717.php

Where Theres Coal

https://www.archaeology.org/issues/269-1709/from-the-trenches/5824-trenches-mexico-cenote-
coal

Painted Worlds
https://www.archaeology.org/issues/268-1709/features/5815-peru-panamarca-moche

This Shipwreck Dates to When Genghis Khan's Descendants Ruled China

https://www.livescience.com/60753-china-shipwreck-from-mongols-era.html

Europe's Oldest Battlefield Yields Clues to Fighters' Identities

https://www.livescience.com/60739-europe-oldest-battlefield-yields-secrets.html
Egyptology

Oldest recorded solar eclipse helps date the Egyptian pharaohs

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-10/uoc-ors102717.php

Newly discovered Coptic tombstone in Luxor belonged to a child: Study

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/280309/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Newly-discovered-
Coptic-tombstone-in-Luxor-belonge.aspx
General Science

Wal-Mart's new robots scan shelves to restock items faster

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/wal-mart-launches-shelf-scanning-
112738159.html?utm_content=bufferc807f&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&ut
m_campaign=buffer

Meet the High Schooler Shaking Up Artificial Intelligence

https://www.wired.com/story/meet-the-high-schooler-shaking-up-artificial-
intelligence/?mbid=nl_102717_daily_list1_p1
Physics, Earth and Space Sciences

Scientists Peek Across the Galaxy to the Dark Side of the Milky Way
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/scientists-are-getting-their-first-good-look-other-
side-milky-way-180965263/#vVEvBQ9Ub4F0lL7H.01

New findings have physicists questioning reality

https://www.cbsnews.com/videos/new-findings-have-physicists-questioning-reality/

Small Asteroid or Comet 'Visits' from Beyond the Solar System

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=6983&utm_source=iContact&utm_medium=em
ail&utm_campaign=NASAJPL&utm_content=comet20171026

As an asteroid approaches, NASA carries out a cosmic fire drill

https://www.csmonitor.com/Science/Spacebound/2017/1012/As-an-asteroid-approaches-NASA-
carries-out-a-cosmic-fire-drill

How a new era of astronomy will ride on gravitational waves

https://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2017/1003/How-a-new-era-of-astronomy-will-ride-on-
gravitational-waves

SpaceX designs smaller rocket in continued effort to put humans on Mars

https://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2017/0929/SpaceX-designs-smaller-rocket-in-continued-
effort-to-put-humans-on-Mars

The Universe Should Not Actually Exist, Scientists Say

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/the-universe-should-not-actually-exist-scientists-
say/ar-AAu227S?ocid=ob-fb-enus-580

Nanomagnets levitate thanks to quantum physics

https://phys.org/news/2017-10-nanomagnets-levitate-quantum-physics.html

Artificial intelligence finds 56 new gravitational lens candidates

https://phys.org/news/2017-10-artificial-intelligence-gravitational-lens-candidates.html

Newfound Wormhole Allows Information to Escape Black Holes

https://www.wired.com/story/information-escape-wormholes/?mbid=nl_102817_daily_list1_p2

NASA's X3 ion thruster smashes records in test firings

https://newatlas.com/x3-hall-thruster-test-record-nasa/51869/

A light in the dark: NASA sounding rocket probes the dark regions of space
https://phys.org/news/2017-10-dark-nasa-rocket-probes-regions.html

Winters on Mars are shaping the Red Planet's landscape

https://phys.org/news/2017-10-winters-mars-red-planet-landscape.html

A Nearby Neutron Star Collision Could Cause Calamity on Earth

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-nearby-neutron-star-collision-could-cause-calamity-
on-earth/
Environment, Climate Change and Alternative Energy Sources

First Negative Emissions Plant Opens in Iceland, Turning Atmospheric CO2 Into Stone
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/first-negative-emissions-plant-opens-iceland-
180965270/#1rZWQX1FtRsuGCjV.01

You may have to pay $70 to visit the Grand Canyon and 16 other national parks
http://www.cnn.com/travel/article/national-park-service-fee-
proposal/index.html?sr=fbCNN102517national-park-service-fee-proposal0218PMStoryGal

PA based power grid operator protests Trump plan to aid coal and nuclear
http://www.post-gazette.com/powersource/policy-powersource/2017/10/25/Power-grid-operator-
protests-Trump-plan-coal-nuclear-pennsylvania-
PJM/stories/201710250092?utm_campaign=Echobox&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Faceb
ook#link_time=1508968926

Can See-Through Solar Panels Replace Fossil Fuels?

https://www.yahoo.com/news/see-solar-panels-replace-fossil-
091521658.html?utm_content=buffercffb5&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm
_campaign=buffer

Vikings Razed the Forests. Can Iceland Regrow Them?

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/10/20/climate/iceland-trees-
reforestation.html?rref=collection/sectioncollection/climate&action=click&contentCollection=climat
e&region=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=sectionfront

This map shows how many years could be added to you life - if the air you breathe was less polluted
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/09/this-map-shows-how-many-years-could-be-added-to-
you-life-if-the-air-you-breathe-was-less-
polluted?utm_content=buffer2de93&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_camp
aign=buffer

'Star in a Jar' Fusion Reactor Works and Promises Infinite Energy

https://www.seeker.com/star-in-a-jar-fusion-reactor-works-and-promises-infinite-energy-
2134228965.html

Where clean energy jobs are growing the fastest

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/where-clean-energy-jobs-are-growing-the-fastest/
Biological, Genetics and Medical Sciences

Beluga whale learns dolphin language

https://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/animals/stories/beluga-whale-learns-dolphin-language-after-
being-placed-their-tank

Machine learning helps science tackle Alzheimer's

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/machine-learning-helps-science-tackle-alzheimers/

'Incredible' editing of life's building blocks

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-41724994

Advanced artificial limbs mapped in the brain

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2017-10-advanced-artificial-limbs-brain.html

New molecule shows promise in HIV vaccine design

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2017-10-molecule-hiv-vaccine.html

NASA "Twins Study" Shows How Spaceflight Changes Gene Expression

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasa-ldquo-twins-study-rdquo-shows-how-spaceflight-
changes-gene-expression/
Other

I'm not crying over a Burger King ad. You're crying over a Burger King ad.
http://mashable.com/2017/10/20/burger-king-bullying-ad/?utm_cid=mash-com-fb-main-
link#gneNS3OigPqi

This app could be the key to speaking a second language

http://mashable.com/2017/09/24/learn-new-language-with-utalk-app/?utm_cid=mash-com-fb-
main-
link&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=Facebook_Ads&utm_campaign=Prospecting_Auto_B
oostedPost_Lookalike_uTalkLanguage_SaleID%3D9429_9.26.2017#uovM86qsVPqX
 Additional Informational
Images from above reveal an ancient city in the middle of the ocean
http://www.msn.com/en-us/video/wonder/images-from-above-reveal-an-ancient-city-in-the-
middle-of-the-ocean/vi-AAtZuKh?ocid=SL5FDHP