Weekly Science Report

May 11, 2018

“In the history of the world there have been thousands of kings and emperors who
called themselves 'their highnesses,' 'their majesties,' and 'their exalted majesties'
and so on. They shone for a brief moment, and as quickly disappeared. But Ashoka
shines and shines brightly like a bright star, even unto this day.”
H.G. Wells on Ashoka the Great

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
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 News Articles

Paleontology, Evolution and Prehistoric Studies

Neanderthal Engraving Hints They Were Capable of Cultural Expression

https://www.inverse.com/article/44462-neanderthal-art-engravings-culture

Dinosaur tracks in Utah park thrown into lake by visitors

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/dinosaur-tracks-lake-1.4653012

78,000 year cave record from East Africa shows early cultural innovations

https://phys.org/news/2018-05-year-cave-east-africa-early.html

Ancient DNA Reveals New Human History Of Eurasian Steppes

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/deadthings/2018/05/09/eurasian-steppes/?
utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A%20DiscoverBlogs%20%28Discover
%20Blogs%29#.WvQ8emczUdV

Studying chimpanzee calls for clues about the origins of human language

https://theconversation.com/studying-chimpanzee-calls-for-clues-about-the-origins-of-human-language-
95990

Jurassic fossil tail tells of missing link in crocodile family tree

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-05/uoe-jft051118.php

History

Husband-wife serial killers may be link between two 40-year-old mysteries, police say
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/husband-wife-serial-killers-may-be-link-between-two-40-year-old-
mysteries-police-say/ar-AAwSp98?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=SL5FDHP

Are Museums the Right Home for Confederate Monuments?

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/are-museums-right-home-confederate-monuments-180968969/?
utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=socialmedia

'Nazi Grandma' Caught after Not Turning up to Prison

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/nazi-grandma-caught-after-not-turning-up-to-prison/ar-AAwXJjd?
li=BBnbfcL&ocid=SL5FDHP

Hostility towards minorities can be contagious

https://phys.org/news/2018-05-hostility-minorities-contagious.html

Two books look at complicity in war crimes by regular folks

https://www.jweekly.com/2018/05/08/two-books-look-complicity-war-crimes-regular-folks/

Cold case mystery: Wife charged with murder 17 years later

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/05/09/cold-case-mystery-wife-charged-2000-slaying/
593355002/

Mormon Church Will Sever Ties With Boy Scouts, Create Own Youth Program

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/05/09/609697466/mormon-church-will-sever-ties-with-boy-
scouts-create-own-youth-program?
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80509

Why Ramadan is called Ramadan: 6 questions answered

https://theconversation.com/why-ramadan-is-called-ramadan-6-questions-answered-77291

CONFLICTS AND MIGRATION DESTROYING LANGUAGES: UNESCO

https://gulfnews.com/news/uae/culture/conflicts-and-migration-destroying-languages-unesco-1.2216417

Madeleine Albright Warns: Don't Let Fascism Go 'Unnoticed Until It's Too Late'

https://www.npr.org/2018/04/03/599120190/madeleine-albright-warns-dont-let-fascism-go-unnoticed-until-its-
too-late?
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Foreign sailors may have worked on South Song Dynasty ships

http://www.kaogu.cn/en/News/New_discoveries/2018/0502/61830.html

India’s Abandoned Island of Colonial Horror

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/indias-abandoned-island-colonial-horror-180960617/?
utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=socialmedia

Genetic Study Estimates Number of First New World Migrants

https://www.archaeology.org/news/6612-180511-new-world-migration

New research shows how Indo-European languages spread across Asia

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-05/uoc--nrs050918.php

One of These Five Innovative Memorials Will Soon Honor Native American Veterans
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/one-these-five-innovative-memorials-will-soon-
honor-native-american-veterans-180969060/

Archaeology

Hiker finds 1,000-year-old piece of pottery on Arizona Strip

https://www.thespectrum.com/story/news/2018/05/07/hiker-finds-ancestral-puebloan-anasazi-pot-
archaeology/587147002/

Czechs showcase destruction and conservation of Syrian heritage during civil war

http://www.radio.cz/en/section/curraffrs/czechs-showcase-destruction-and-conservation-of-syrian-heritage-
during-civil-war

Finding Pandava's Kingdom: ASI Excavations Touch Pre-Mauryan Level at Delhi's Purana Qila

https://www.news18.com/news/india/finding-pandavas-kingdom-asi-excavations-touch-pre-mauryan-level-at-
delhis-purana-qila-1744145.html

Ancient tools and weapons over 3,500 years-old displayed in Halesworth

http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/axe-heads-spears-found-buried-wissett-field-halesworth-museum-1-5511720

Turkish archeologists identify earliest-known images of Turks in ancient Persia’s Persepolis

https://www.dailysabah.com/history/2018/04/27/turkish-archeologists-identify-earliest-known-images-of-turks-
in-ancient-persias-persepolis

British Museum launches Egyptian antiquities database to track looted artefacts

https://www.antiquestradegazette.com/news/2018/british-museum-launches-egyptian-antiquities-database-
to-track-looted-artefacts/?platform=hootsuite

A stolen identity, a mysterious coffin and the Frenchman who baffled the Bay Area in the 1880s

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/a-stolen-identity-a-mysterious-coffin-and-the-frenchman-who-baffled-
the-bay-area-in-the-1880s/ar-AAwMV6k?ocid=ob-fb-enus-580

Ancient Christian ruins discovered under ISIS garbage dump

https://nypost.com/2018/05/02/ancient-christian-ruins-discovered-under-isis-garbage-dump/

UMaine, Penobscot Tribe to Sign Pact About Tribal Resources

https://www.usetinc.org/news/umaine-penobscot-tribe-to-sign-pact-about-tribal-resources-542018/

Ancestral remains 'people not objects'

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-43927157

Alderney Iron Age finds to go on display there

https://guernseypress.com/news/2018/04/25/alderney-iron-age-finds-to-go-on-display-there/
Remains of ancient horse discovered at Pompeii

https://www.thelocal.it/20180511/pompeii-horse

Ancient Lost City of Mardaman Uncovered in Iraq

https://www.livescience.com/62545-lost-city-of-mardaman-discovered.html

Egyptology

Egypt discovers tomb of ancient pharaonic general near Cairo

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2018/05/08/egypt-discovers-tomb-ancient-pharaonic-general-near-cairo.html

New archaeological discovery in Matariya

http://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/49619/New-archaeological-discovery-in-Matariya

General Science

The U.S. Army Is Rushing to Field Drone-Killing Stryker Armored Vehicles

https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a20267214/army-fielding-stryker-drone-killers/

Uber Unveils the Flying Taxi It Wants to Rule the Skies

https://www.wired.com/story/uber-unveils-flying-taxi/?CNDID=41291302&mbid=nl_050818_daily_list1_p3

New polymer manufacturing process saves 10 orders of magnitude of energy

https://phys.org/news/2018-05-polymer-magnitude-energy.html

Light could make semiconductor computers a million times faster or even go quantum

https://phys.org/news/2018-05-semiconductor-million-faster-quantum.html
Cloaking devices—it's not just 'Star Trek' anymore

https://phys.org/news/2018-05-cloaking-devicesit-star-trek-anymore.html

Physics, Earth and Space Sciences

What will happen when our sun dies?

https://phys.org/news/2018-05-sun-dies.html

A Naked-Eye Superflare Detected from Proxima Centauri

http://aasnova.org/2018/05/08/a-naked-eye-superflare-detected-from-proxima-centauri/

Congress Is Quietly Nudging NASA to Look for Aliens

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/05/seti-technosignatures-nasa-jill-tarter/558512/?
utm_source=atlfb

First NASA lander to study Mars' interior launches from California

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/first-nasa-lander-to-study-mars-interior-launches-from-california/
ar-AAwLWiZ?ocid=ob-fb-enus-580

Proof of 'Planet Nine' May Be Sewn into Medieval Tapestries

https://www.livescience.com/62475-medieval-comets-reveal-planet-nine.html

NASA Tests New Nuclear Reactor For Future Space Travelers

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/05/03/608137119/nasa-tests-new-nuclear-reactor-for-future-
space-travelers?
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Could a multiverse be hospitable to life?

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-05/du-cam051018.php
Environment, Climate Change and Alternative Energy Sources

Smaller, Cheaper Nuclear Reactors Are on the Way

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/a20126111/smaller-cheaper-nuclear-reactors-are-on-the-
way/

What the Longest Known Whale Shark Migration Ever Tells Us About Conservation
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/what-longest-known-whale-shark-migration-ever-
tells-us-about-conservation-180969019/#xgySCJrePlHCeqgm.01

California moves to require solar panels on all new homes

https://apnews.com/afa0978eff8443af9e5d7c77a3c285bf

The Impacts of Relying on Desalination for Water

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-impacts-of-relying-on-desalination/

Sweden’s recycling is so revolutionary, the country has run out of rubbish

https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/sweden-s-recycling-is-so-revolutionary-the-country-has-run-out-
of-rubbish-a7462976.html?amp

Biological, Genetics and Medical Sciences

Plants can use underground communication to find out when neighbors are stressed

https://phys.org/news/2018-05-underground-neighbors-stressed.html

Ketamine Stirs Up Hope—and Controversy—as a Depression Drug

https://www.wired.com/story/ketamine-stirs-up-hope-controversy-as-a-depression-drug/?
CNDID=41291302&mbid=nl_050918_backchannel_list1_p2
Leprosy May Have Originated in Europe

https://www.archaeology.org/news/6613-180511-europe-oldest-leprosy

Trial shows chemotherapy is helping kids live with pulmonary vein stenosis

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-05/bch-tsc051118.php

Other

Can Humans Survive a Faster Future?

https://www.rand.org/blog/articles/2018/05/can-humans-survive-a-faster-future.html?
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Additional Informational
Designing a Superyacht Destined for Scientific Discovery

https://thesuperyachtlife.com/craft/rev-project/

The Spectacular Wonders of Europe's Libraries

https://www.wired.com/story/photo-gallery-europe-libraries/?CNDID=41291302&mbid=nl_050718_daily_list3_p4

Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa

http://eamena.arch.ox.ac.uk/

Want to Hunt Aliens? Go to West Virginia's Low-Tech 'Quiet Zone'

https://www.wired.com/story/national-radio-quiet-zone-gallery/?
CNDID=41291302&mbid=nl_050618_daily_list1_p3