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900-Year-Old DNA Reveals Cacao Reached Ancient Georgia, Rewriting Chocolate’s History in North America
1+ week, 4+ day ago (684+ words) Nine centuries ago, people gathered at what is today recognized as the Etowah Indian Mounds site, located roughly 40 miles northwest of Atlanta, Georgia, for enormous community feasts. They ate, drank, and eventually discarded broken pottery into pits that would become…...
The Search for a "Second Earth," a Magnetic "Clock" in Ancient Pottery, and Alien Life Lurking in Venus's Clouds
1+ week, 5+ day ago (138+ words) The Debrief The Search for a “Second Earth,” a Magnetic “Clock” in Ancient Pottery, and Alien Life Lurking in Venus’s Clouds This week in stories we’re tracking here at The Debrief: NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Telescope was launched on Sunday,…...
Paleontologists Uncover a Graveyard of Ancient Sea ‘Monsters’ in the Sands of Egypt’s Deserts
2+ week, 4+ day ago (367+ words) Long before the age of the Pharaohs and the monumental construction that defined the ancient Egyptian world, the famed Gift of the Nile was once a sea filled with hungry monsters. Today, evidence of these ancient aquatic beasts can still…...
Archaeologists Unearth 6,500-Year-Old ‘Sun and Moon’ Ritual Center That Predates Stonehenge by 1,000 Years
2+ week, 4+ day ago (716+ words) A University of West Bohemia (UWB)- led team of archaeologists has unearthed an ancient Czech ritual center linked to the movement of the Sun and Moon, predating Stonehenge by over 1,000 years. The UWB-led team behind the discovery said the site’s…...
Mobile Hypersonic Spaceports, a Manhattan-sized "Ice Island," and a Lost City Surfaces in Egypt
2+ week, 5+ day ago (156+ words) The Debrief Mobile Hypersonic Spaceports, a Manhattan-sized “Ice Island,” and a Lost City Surfaces in Egypt This week in stories we’re tracking at The Debrief… Commercial space company Rocket Lab just unveiled GHOST, a game-changing new launch capability that could…...
Unraveling Why Glow-in-the-Dark Pigments Favored by Modern Artists and Designers Don’t Last
2+ week, 5+ day ago (616+ words) Researchers at the College of Wooster are unraveling the mystery behind glow-in-the-dark pigments to help modern artists working in luminous media preserve their work as close to the original luminosity as possible for future generations to enjoy. The team behind…...
Immune Cells Revealed to Have a Unique Sense of Touch in New Research That Could Rewrite How We Understand Autoimmune Problems
2+ week, 6+ day ago (519+ words) How immune cells develop and retain memory may work differently than medical scientists previously believed, according to an international team of researchers. The new work shows that T cells—white blood cells essential to immune function—can respond to the…...
The Republic of Veiled Tongues: An Afghan Woman Reports from Inside Afghanistan
3+ week, 22+ hour ago (498+ words) In this Op-Ed piece, Samreen Makhfi, an Afghan woman currently living in Afghanistan, reflects on life in Afghanistan five years after the Taliban’s return to power, using the country’s Independence Day—August 19—as a contrast between its historical aspirations and…...
Experiments Show Color-Enriched White Light Can Affect Whether a Room Feels Hot or Cold
3+ week, 2+ day ago (590+ words) Experiments by Penn State University researchers have shown that enriched white light that includes “invisible” blue and red wavelengths can directly affect a person’s perception of indoor temperature, including making a warm room feel more than one degree Fahrenheit cooler....