Weekly Science Report

June 17, 2022

 
“Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.”
John F. Kennedy
 

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.
 
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News Articles
 
Paleontology, Evolution and Prehistoric Studies
 
New dinosaur species used fearsome claws to graze along the coast
https://phys.org/news/2022-05-dinosaur-species-fearsome-claws-graze.html?
fbclid=IwAR0EZDFhhQSUbVI_3fD713T-GTWk3sB-buH6-MOXUBjIn4xrglPyeEaRUMs
 
A 146,000-Year-Old Fossil Dubbed ‘Dragon Man’ Might Be One of Our Closest Relatives
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/146000-year-old-fossil-dubbed-dragon-man-might-be-one-
our-closest-relatives-180978062/?
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oMumGrlSDoXRyTWH2wq5FCTUdlgXU
 
Tanya Plibersek urged to protect Indigenous rock art up to 50,000 years old by blocking fertiliser plant
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/jun/07/tanya-plibersek-urged-to-protect-indigenous-rock-
art-up-to-50000-year-old-by-blocking-45bn-wa-fertiliser-plant?
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server_address=isolation2-us-east-1.wss.prod.fire.glass
 
Prehistoric Swiss Army knife indicates early humans communicated
https://phys.org/news/2022-06-prehistoric-swiss-army-knife-early.html?
fbclid=IwAR2jA3T5kTY2mXhHpgAmwsXXA4C07fBuxCiOVFFIv-hhALddxdrN3Z22BWc
 
Race to save undersea Stone Age cave art masterpieces
https://phys.org/news/2022-05-undersea-stone-age-cave-art.html
 
A new origin story for domesticated chickens starts in rice fields 3,500 years ago
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/chicken-domestication-bones-origin-asia-rice-fields-exotic-animals
 
Pre-historic Wallacea: A melting pot of human genetic ancestries
https://phys.org/news/2022-06-pre-historic-wallacea-pot-human-genetic.html
 
Study of the internal vascular system of the skull in American populations of the late Holocene
https://phys.org/news/2022-06-internal-vascular-skull-american-populations.html
 
Save the Dates
https://www.archaeology.org/issues/474-2207/digs/10614-digs-radiocarbon-date-survey
 
Scientists Use AI to Look for Evidence of Early Fire Use in Israel
https://www.archaeology.org/news/10638-220616-israel-fire-flint
 
Chinese fossils show human middle ear evolved from fish gills
https://phys.org/news/2022-06-chinese-fossils-human-middle-ear.html
 
 

History
 
From the Achaemenids to the Mughals: A look at India's lost Persian history
https://www.middleeasteye.net/discover/india-persian-history-lost-achamenids-mughals?
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fbclid=IwAR0B-CNOaQv6kOqjLOGCOnEkul8y1R-oMqwvbzETpPSs6YBUmcQ2k9p9CRs
 
Yellowstone renames a mountain after the history of its prior namesake comes to light
https://www.npr.org/2022/06/11/1104252264/yellowstone-first-peoples-mountain-native-americans?
utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&fbclid=IwAR07qf
K7Ck1d5LtATNv6C9Lpn78rYJXQHLH7F-QVyO5S25Fdy642i1zdhCI
 
Works of ancient art destroyed at DMA in overnight break-in
https://www.dallasnews.com/arts-entertainment/visual-arts/2022/06/02/5-million-of-ancient-art-destroyed-at-
dma-in-overnight-break-in/?
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British journalist and Brazilian indigenous affairs expert missing in the Amazon
https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/06/americas/dom-phillips-brazil-bruno-arajo-pereira-intl-latam/index.html?
utm_content=2022-06-07T03%3A30%3A40&utm_source=fbCNN&utm_term=link&utm_medium=social
 
A new quarter honors Native American leader and activist Wilma Mankiller
https://www.npr.org/2022/06/06/1103058335/new-quarter-honors-native-american-leader-wilma-mankiller?
sc=18&f=1001
 
Investigation launched into Nazi looted art in Dutch parliament
https://nltimes.nl/2022/05/24/investigation-launched-nazi-looted-art-dutch-parliament?
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_server_address=isolation2-us-east-1.wss.prod.fire.glass
 
Newly released doctor’s letters show Adolf Hitler’s fear of illness
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/05/newly-released-doctors-letters-show-adolf-hitlers-fear-of-
illness
 
Lakota elders helped a white man preserve their language. Then he tried to sell it back to them.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/native-american-language-preservation-rcna31396
 
Black Death origin mystery solved after 675 years, researchers say
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/black-death-origin-mystery-solved-plague-675-years-researchers-say/?
ftag=CNM-00-10aab6a&linkId=169416879
 
Inside the Effort to Restore Synagogues in Venice’s 500-Year-Old Jewish Ghetto
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/synagogues-venice-500-year-old-jewish-ghetto-180980259/
 
Jacksonville is turning 200. But before there was a Jacksonville, these people were here
https://www.jacksonville.com/story/news/history/2022/06/10/jacksonville-marks-bicentennial-but-these-
people-were-here-long-before/7451948001/
 
Did democracy have a separate origin in the Americas?
https://phys.org/news/2022-06-democracy-americas.html
 
 
'Lost tapes' from Chernobyl show the haunting fallout of the nuclear disaster
https://www.livescience.com/chernobyl-lost-tapes-hbo-trailer
 
A tabernacle was stolen and an angel statue was beheaded at a Brooklyn church
https://www.npr.org/2022/05/30/1102090870/2-million-relic-stolen-angel-statue-beheaded-brooklyn-church?
sc=18&f=1001
 
 
 
 

Archaeology
 
Colombia discovers two historical shipwrecks in Caribbean
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/colombia-discovers-two-historical-shipwrecks-caribbean-2022-06-
07/?utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A%20Trending
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RS7QwBeBFtHM2Dt-IcBvxLzn6qph7eH94
 
Experts pile pressure on State to protect Kenya's marine heritage
https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/coast/article/2001447062/experts-pile-pressure-on-state-to-protect-kenyas-
marine-heritage?
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Documenting destruction: The race to map Ukraine's historic buildings
https://www.france24.com/en/video/20220530-documenting-destruction-the-race-to-map-ukraine-s-historic-
buildings?
ref=tw&fireglass_rsn=true#fireglass_params&tabid=acccb38d641f7fe1&start_with_session_counter=3&appli
cation_server_address=isolation2-us-east-1.wss.prod.fire.glass
 
Briton given 15 years in Iraqi jail for smuggling antiquities to appeal verdict
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/06/british-geologist-jailed-iraq-smuggling-artefacts-jim-fitton?
CMP=fb_gu&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1654509955
 
A 3,400-year-old city emerges from the Tigris River
https://phys.org/news/2022-05-year-old-city-emerges-tigris-river.html
 
Archaeologists discover passageways in 3,000-year-old Peruvian temple
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/archaeologists-discover-passageways-3000-year-old-peruvian-
temple-2022-05-30/?utm_campaign=trueAnthem
%3A+Trending+Content&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=facebook
 
Broken pieces of rare Viking sword reunited after 1,200 years apart
https://www.livescience.com/rare-viking-sword-discovered-norway
 
Ancient water conservancy facilities discovered in central China
http://en.people.cn/n3/2022/0612/c90000-10108602.html
 
Ruins of Maurya-era wall unearthed in Tilaurakot, Kapilvastu
https://kathmandupost.com/province-no-5/2022/06/13/ruins-of-maurya-era-wall-unearthed-in-tilaurakot-
kapilvastu
 
Century-old 'Frozen Charlotte' dolls unearthed in archaeological dig in Christchurch CBD
https://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/128960881/centuryold-frozen-charlotte-dolls-unearthed-in-
archaeological-dig-in-christchurch-cbd
 
Amphibian 'death pit' filled with 8,000 bones unearthed in Iron Age village
https://www.livescience.com/amphibian-death-pit-iron-age-village
 
Archeologists unearth Jewish girl’s shoe at site of WWII ghetto bunker
https://www.thefirstnews.com/article/archeologists-unearth-jewish-girls-shoe-at-site-of-wwii-ghetto-bunker-
31117
 
 
First Falconer
https://www.archaeology.org/issues/466-2205/digs/10490-digs-norway-falconer-figurine
 
More digging needed to determine whether bones of fallen Waterloo soldiers were sold as fertilizer
https://phys.org/news/2022-06-bones-fallen-waterloo-soldiers-sold.html
 
 
 
 
 

Egyptology
 
Egypt unearths trove of artifacts, 250 mummies in ancient necropolis
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/05/31/egypt-mummies-saqqara-coffins-bronze-antiquities/?
utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR22UivA4NEk0RsURtonV
tXzNWzZzfETWnNB3vssStyG1IIfjjvwKEzfXOg
 
Egypt displays trove of newly discovered ancient artifacts
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/egypt-displays-trove-newly-discovered-ancient-artifacts-rcna31091
 
Journeys of the Pyramid Builders
https://www.archaeology.org/issues/473-2207/features/10601-egypt-wadi-el-jarf-port-papyri
 
 
 
 

General Science
 
Fastest Supercomputer to Ever Exist Breaks the 'Exascale' Barrier
https://www.vice.com/en/article/4axgym/fastest-supercomputer-to-ever-exist-breaks-the-exascale-barrier?
utm_source=vice_facebook&utm_medium=social&fbclid=IwAR0JrYjs68sru8QBcAwQQTTl9JfEo6AhJlWsMD
5CMo3gMN8ps6IK2gHYEvc&fireglass_rsn=true#fireglass_params&tabid=a576d4a1eb7e738c&start_with_s
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Hyundai says it's the first to pilot a large autonomous ship across the ocean
https://www.engadget.com/hyundai-autonomous-merchant-ship-ocean-voyage-203435454.html
 
The Google engineer who sees company's AI as 'sentient' thinks a chatbot has a soul
https://www.npr.org/2022/06/16/1105552435/google-ai-sentient?sc=18&f=1001
 
New device gets scientists closer to quantum materials breakthrough
https://phys.org/news/2022-06-device-scientists-closer-quantum-materials.html
 
 
 

Physics, Earth and Space Sciences

 
Katya Echazarreta becomes first Mexican-born woman in space
https://www.khou.com/article/news/national/first-ever-mexican-born-woman-in-space-katya-echazarreta/285-
a373d344-6783-4ed4-8a3f-154d817b5960?fbclid=IwAR0eIbNbEaTaKUkIe3UJgp8bk9IrpkLaD0ahhrl-
F_YZwVZJp61tSS48t-s
 
The First Privately Funded Killer Asteroid Spotter Is Here
https://www.wired.com/story/the-first-privately-funded-killer-asteroid-spotter-is-here/?
fbclid=IwAR1e5wBSCdZQkXTDz6_j95wxIy_MIsW4_IkFWu5Hp5KOs3n6TvsE5E3Nj0c&fireglass_rsn=true#fi
reglass_params&tabid=ab756f96758f4da5&start_with_session_counter=2&application_server_address=isol
ation1-us-west-2.wss.prod.fire.glass
 
James Webb Space Telescope hit by tiny meteoroid
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-61744257
 
Uncovering a novel way to bring the energy that powers the sun and stars to Earth
https://phys.org/news/2022-06-uncovering-energy-powers-sun-stars.html?fbclid=IwAR32ooIBOE6-
r9FXiYIJ2UQJZapL0cI6oVeb7Hj6U-oZBFIx4byHILHrj0M
 
House committee questions proposed delay in NASA asteroid mission
https://spacenews.com/house-committee-questions-proposed-delay-in-nasa-asteroid-mission/
 
James Webb Space Telescope practices tracking an asteroid for the 1st time
https://www.space.com/james-webb-space-telescope-tracks-moving-target
 
NASA to launch study of unidentified aerial phenomena, or UFOs
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nasa-ufo-study-unidentified-aerial-phenomena-uap/
 
Scientists announce a breakthrough in determining life's origin on Earth—and maybe Mars
https://phys.org/news/2022-06-scientists-breakthrough-life-earthand-mars.html
 
Did NASA find Hell? Scientists brace for first glimpse of world that constantly burns
https://phys.org/news/2022-06-nasa-hell-scientists-brace-glimpse.html
 
NASA’s MAVEN Spacecraft Back in Business Following Near-Death Experience
https://gizmodo.com/nasa-maven-mars-spacecraft-1849007541
 
Chinese scientists call for plan to destroy Elon Musk's Starlink satellites
https://www.livescience.com/china-plans-ways-destroy-starlink
 
The aliens are all hanging out on Dyson spheres circling white dwarfs, physicist argues
https://www.livescience.com/aliens-hiding-on-dyson-spheres-around-white-dwarfs
 
European ‘star survey’ reveals celestial treasure trove
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/european-star-survey-reveals-celestial-treasure-trove-rcna33250?
cid=sm_npd_nn_fb_ma&fbclid=IwAR27QmxE6_H5WmqygrmHKyewL8Jf5OmlTN0_i_e1aXBAqf9WagIRaRk
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Astronomers discover a multiplanet system nearby
https://phys.org/news/2022-06-astronomers-multiplanet-nearby.html
 
Experiment results confirm anomaly suggesting new physics possibility
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/956281
 
Mysterious 'blue blobs' reveal a new kind of star system
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/956297
 
Formation and evolution of massive binaries may share the same mechanism in Milky Way and Andromeda
galaxies
https://phys.org/news/2022-06-formation-evolution-massive-binaries-mechanism.html
 
Grain size of rocks in Earth's mantle affects tectonics
https://phys.org/news/2022-06-grain-size-earth-mantle-affects.html
 
The quiet life of Messier 94
https://phys.org/news/2022-06-quiet-life-messier.html
 
Record-Breaking Voyager Spacecraft Begin to Power Down
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/record-breaking-voyager-spacecraft-begin-to-power-down/
 
Betelgeuse ‘Great Dimming’ Mystery Solved by Satellite Photobomb
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/betelgeuse-lsquo-great-dimming-rsquo-mystery-solved-by-
satellite-photobomb/
 
 
 
 
 

Environment, Climate Change and Alternative Energy Sources

 
Artists organize to offer new visions for tackling climate change
https://theconversation.com/artists-organize-to-offer-new-visions-for-tackling-climate-change-182484
 
Tidal turbines put a new spin on the power of the ocean
https://www.popsci.com/environment/tidal-turbine-renewable-technology/
 
Farm in NSW central west given new lease on life after 15,000 trees planted in shelterbelts
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-06-06/nsw-sheep-farmer-plants-15000-trees-on-property-/101123228?
utm_medium=social&utm_content=sf257040262&utm_campaign=fb_abc_news&utm_source=m.facebook.co
m&sf257040262=1Sent
 
The energy in nuclear waste could power the U.S. for 100 years, but the technology was never
commercialized
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/02/nuclear-waste-us-could-power-the-us-for-100-years.html
 
Native American youth to be tapped for conservation projects
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/native-american-youth-to-be-tapped-for-conservation-projects/
2022/06/10/cd60a8b0-e8f6-11ec-a422-11bbb91db30b_story.html
 

Biological, Genetics and Medical Sciences

 
This experimental drug could change the field of cancer research
https://www.npr.org/2022/06/07/1103545361/cancer-drug-experimental-rectal-chemotherapy-surgery-
treatment-immunotherapy?sc=18&f=1001
 
Dolphins Have Different Whistles Based on Their Environment
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/dolphins-have-different-whistles-based-on-their-environment-
180980204/
 
Neuroscientists create maps of the brain after traumatic brain injury
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-06-neuroscientists-brain-traumatic-injury.html
 
Heart surgery backlog requires urgent action
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-06-heart-surgery-backlog-requires-urgent.html
 
Neurons and glia collaborate to drive neural regeneration following brain injury
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-06-neurons-glia-collaborate-neural-regeneration.html
 
Secret Polar Bear Population Is Found Living in a Seemingly Impossible Habitat
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/secret-polar-bear-population-is-found-living-in-a-seemingly-
impossible-habitat/
 
 

Other
 
Navy’s Robotic Orca Submarine Could Be A Gamechanger In The Pacific
https://www.forbes.com/sites/lorenthompson/2022/06/02/navys-robotic-orca-submarine-could-be-a-
gamechanger-in-the-pacific/?
sh=2bb05ea74d46&utm_medium=social&utm_source=ForbesMainTwitter&utm_campaign=socialflowForbes
MainTwitter&fireglass_rsn=true#fireglass_params&tabid=a4719bd72b7ec0ed&start_with_session_counter=3
&application_server_address=isolation2-us-east-1.wss.prod.fire.glass
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Additional Informational
 
The Pope at War: The Secret History of Pius XII, Mussolini, and Hitler 
https://www.amazon.com/Pope-War-Secret-History-Mussolini/dp/0812989945/ref=sr_1_1?
crid=21J7MW2IJ3VKH&keywords=THE+POPE+AT+WAR&qid=1654098936&sprefix=the+pope+at+war
%2Caps%2C340&sr=8-1
 
A Long Way Home for ‘Looted’ Art Is Getting Shorter
https://www.aam-us.org/wire/nytimes/a-long-way-home-for-looted-art-is-getting-shorter/?
fireglass_rsn=true#fireglass_params&tabid=a5d58d3fa9de854a&start_with_session_counter=3&application_
server_address=isolation2-us-east-1.wss.prod.fire.glass
 
Secure World Foundation Newsletter, June 2022
https://mailchi.mp/swfound.org/june2022-newsletter-1806655?e=1278109aa1
 
NASA Moon Mission Set to Break Record in Navigation Signal Test
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2022/nasa-moon-mission-set-to-break-record-in-navigation-signal-test
 
IMLS Announces New Pilot Survey of American Museums
https://www.imls.gov/news/imls-announces-new-pilot-survey-american-museums
 
NASA’s DAVINCI Mission To Take the Plunge Through Massive Atmosphere of Venus
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2022/nasa-s-davinci-mission-to-take-the-plunge-through-massive-
atmosphere-of-venus
 
The Stories of Six Righteous Among the Nations in Auschwitz, Flickers of Light: Dr. Adelaide Hautval
https://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/righteous-auschwitz/hautval.asp?
utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=organic-english&utm_campaign=otd&utm_content=hautval
 
Planetary Defense Exercise Uses Apophis as Hazardous Asteroid Stand-In
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/planetary-defense-exercise-uses-apophis-as-hazardous-asteroid-stand-in
 
NASA, Partner Establish New Research Group for Mars Sample Return Program
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-partner-establish-new-research-group-for-mars-sample-return-program
 
Bioarchaeological evidence of one of the earliest Islamic burials in the Levant
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-022-03508-4
 
UNF Archaeology unveils new finds at lost Indigenous town of Sarabay
https://www.unf.edu/newsroom/2022/06/Sarabay.html
 
'Homo erectus' from Gongwangling could have been the earliest population in China
https://www.cenieh.es/en/press/news/homo-erectus-gongwangling-could-have-been-earliest-population-
china
 
Clinton Man Indicted for Illegally Excavating Native American Site
https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdmo/pr/clinton-man-indicted-illegally-excavating-native-american-site