Dennis PhillipsArchaeology Putting Dinner on the Table - Archaeology Magazinearchaeology.org - BENJAMIN LEONARD Around A.D. 400, archaeologists believe, children from the indigenous Caribbean Saladoid culture on the island of St. Thomas helped their mothers put …
Dennis PhillipsFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoArchaeology Bronze Ring Weight Discovered in Japan - Archaeology Magazinearchaeology.org - Jessica E. Saraceni RITTO, JAPAN—The Asahi Shimbun reports that a bronze ring discovered in a dry riverbed in the south-central region of Japan’s main island of Honshu …
Dennis PhillipsNorthamptonshire, UK Roman Britain: Wooden arm discovered in Northamptonshire wellBBC NewsA rare 2,000-year-old wooden arm has been recovered from the bottom of a Roman well. The "finely carved" limb was found by archaeologists excavating land at the Warth Park industrial estate in Raunds,
Dennis PhillipsColombia Colombia's 'Lost City' is older than Machu Picchu, and hardly anyone visitsCNN - By Emily Gillespie(CNN) — Hidden deep in the jungle of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta mountains in Colombia sits Ciudad Perdida, the "Lost City." Built by the Tairona people more than 1,000 years ago, the archaeological
Dennis PhillipsArchaeology Archaeologists to excavate Glen Coe 'lost townships'BBC NewsArchaeologists are to excavate the sites of three villages in Glen Coe. The townships of Inverigan, Achnacon and Achtriochtan vanished during the Highland Clearances. In the 18th and early 19th century
Dennis PhillipsSpeed Of Light Speed of Light May Not Be Constant, Physicists SayLive Science Jesse Emspak is a contributing writer for Live Science, Space.com and Toms Guide. He focuses on physics, human health and general science. Jesse has …
Dennis PhillipsDwarf Planet NASA reveals new image of dwarf planet 'like nothing that humanity has ever seen before'Fox News - Chris CiacciaNASA unveiled a new image of the dwarf planet Ceres that "is like nothing that humanity has ever seen before." In addition to being a dwarf planet, Ceres is also the largest known asteroid, with a diameter
Dennis PhillipsHarvard Medical School Using CRISPR to resurrect the woolly mammothCNET - Jackson Ryan De-extinction, bringing extinct species back from the dead, is now on the table thanks to the revolutionary gene-editing technology CRISPR.
Dennis PhillipsGarden of Eden Early Farmers in 9,000-year-old Turkish Town Couldn’t Stand Each Otherhaaretz.com - Ruth Schuster The first farmers in the world might be romantically thought of as joyously discovering the bounty of sowing and reaping, and sitting together in …
Dennis PhillipsArchaeology Archeologists return to 5,000 year-old ritual landscape on Anglesey | Wales - ITV Newsitv.com Archaeologists have returned to uncover a prehistoric ritual landscape that includes a Bronze Age cairn which may be larger than its famous neighbour …
Dennis PhillipsGeek NASA's OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Takes Stunning Photo of Asteroid Bennu From Just 0.4 Miles AwayGizmodo - Tom McKay NASA’s asteroid-sampling OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, which is currently in position around the tiny, near-Earth asteroid 101955 Bennu, has transmitted its …
Dennis PhillipsSpace Station India plans to launch space station by 2030Engadget - Jon FingasIt would join the few countries that have stations of their own. India's broadening spaceflight ambitions now include a longer-term presence in Earth's orbit. Indian Space Research Organization chief Sivan
Dennis PhillipsSpace Cassini's Breathtaking Final Images Reveal Never-Before-Seen Shapes in Saturn's RingsScienceAlert - MICHELLE STARR In its final year, Cassini plunged where no spacecraft had plunged before, down in the space between Saturn and its rings. Again and again it dove, …
Dennis PhillipsMicrowaves Could EmDrive engines work for real? We're about to find outWired UK - Daniel Oberhaus Since the birth of the space age, the dream of catching a ride to another solar system has been hobbled by the “tyranny of the rocket equation,” …
Dennis PhillipsHistory In the Bronze Age, People Labored Over Cereal That No One Ate | Atlas ObscuraAtlas Obscura - By Sabrina Imbler Forty-one years ago in Austria, archaeologists unearthed three charred, fragmented ring-shaped objects with no clear purpose or origin. Last week, …
Dennis PhillipsHistory Mystery Queen in the Maya TombNational Geographic - Ana García BarriosSurrounded by treasure and covered in blood red dust, the Red Queen was discovered in a seventh-century Maya tomb, but her true identity remains unknown. Encircled by thick jungle, Palenque is one of most
Dennis PhillipsEgypt Ancient Egyptian fortress built by Ramses II reveals its secretsFox News - James RogersAn ancient Egyptian fortress built by the Pharaoh Ramses II is revealing its secrets to archaeologists. Researchers discovered the remains of two new buildings at the fortress site in Beheira Governorate
Dennis PhillipsFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoArchaeology Colonial-Era Home Excavated in New Hampshire - Archaeology Magazinearchaeology.org - Jessica E. Saraceni DURHAM, NEW HAMPSHIRE—The New Hampshire Union Leader reports that a team of archaeologists led by Meghan Howey of the University of New Hampshire is …
Dennis PhillipsScience Ancient marijuana use uncovered in 2,500-year-old tombnewatlas.com - Rich Haridy A new study has revealed cannabis residue with high levels of THC in ancient funerary incense burners found in western China. The discovery is the …
Dennis PhillipsScience A ‘Catastrophic’ Fire Destroyed This Incredible Bronze Age Settlement a Year After It Was BuiltGizmodo - George Dvorsky A remarkably well-preserved Bronze Age settlement dubbed the ‘British Pompeii’ was destroyed by fire around a year after it was constructed, …
Dennis PhillipsNeutrons Fusion-Powered Spacecraft Could Be Just a Decade Awayspace.com - Mike Wall Fusion-powered spacecraft may not be just a sci-fi dream for much longer. The Direct Fusion Drive (DFD) engine could take flight for the first time in …
Dennis PhillipsPrehistory Artificial islands older than Stonehenge stump scientistsNational Geographic - Erin BlakemoreA study of crannogs in Scotland's Outer Hebrides reveals some were built more than 3,000 years earlier than previously thought. But what purpose did they serve? When it comes to studying Neolithic Britain
Dennis PhillipsTechnology Scientists solve the mystery of hardening arteries, and find solution in a common drugnewatlas.com - Rich Haridy A landmark study, led by a team of scientists from King's College London and the University of Cambridge, has described the mechanism responsible for …
Dennis PhillipsScience Why Does the U.S. Use Fahrenheit Instead of Celsius?howstuffworks.com - Patrick J. Kiger If you're an American and you've ever had a conversation with someone from another country about the weather, you've probably been a little confused …
Dennis PhillipsArchaeology 12,000-Year-Old 'Headless' Horse Engraving Discovered in FranceLive Science - Laura Geggel Archaeologists have discovered 12,000-year-old engravings of a horse and four other animals etched by Stone Age artists into sandstone in what is now …
Dennis PhillipsNASA NASA's Artemis program will return astronauts to the moon and give us the first female moonwalkerNBC News - By Jason DavisIt’s a bold plan — and success isn’t certain. Artemis faces political, budgetary and technological hurdles. The Greek god who became the namesake of NASA's Apollo program in the 1960s and ’70s had a twin
Dennis PhillipsArchaeology Archaeologists link Maya demise to “trophy skulls”breakingbelizenews.com - BBN Staff Posted: Monday, June 10, 2019. 7:38 pm CST.By Aaron Humes: Recent finds at ancient Maya sites in Belize may help shed light on the collapse of the …
Dennis PhillipsTutankhamun Egypt tries to stop sale of Tutankhamun statue in LondonThe Guardian - Ruth Michaelson in CairoEgyptian authorities are trying to stop the auction of a statue of Tutankhamun’s head at Christie’s auction house in London next month after concerns were raised that the bust might have been stolen from
Dennis PhillipsFamine Irish Famine remains found on Canadian beachBBC NewsRemains washed up on a Canadian beach belonged to shipwreck victims lost at sea while fleeing the Irish Famine, the Canadian government has confirmed. The bones of three children washed up on a beach Cap-des-Rosiers
