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'Large Head People': Mysterious New Form of Ancient Human Emerges​

Hina shahDecember 03, 2024
A "provocative" new piece in Nature has proposed a whole new group of ancient humans – cousins of the Denisovans and Neanderthals – that once lived alongside Homo sapiens in eastern Asia more than 100,000 years ago.
Representation of an ancient human skull. (ansap/Getty Images)
The brains of these extinct humans, who probably hunted horses in small groups, were much bigger than any other hominin of their time, including our own species.

Paleoanthropologist Xiujie Wu from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and anthropologist Christopher Bae from the University of Hawai'i have called this new group the Juluren, meaning "large head people".
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Homespace'Eight billion bucks or bust': From pirates to 'stupid mistakes' — the wild story of how James Webb Space Telescope almost failed to launch

'Eight billion bucks or bust': From pirates to 'stupid mistakes' — the wild story of how James Webb Space Telescope almost failed to launch​

Hina shahDecember 07, 2024
In this excerpt from "Pillars of Creation: How the James Webb Telescope Unlocked the Secrets of the Cosmos" (Little, Brown Book Group, 2024), author Richard Panek looks at the jaw-dropping story behind the launch of the JWST — and how it almost fell at the final hurdle.

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I get my fix from Bluesky everyday.

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Cotton-and-squid-bone sponge can soak up 99.9% of microplastics, scientists say​

Filter performs well in removing plastic pollution from water and Chinese researchers say it appears to be scalable
A sponge made of cotton and squid bone that has absorbed about 99.9% of microplastics in water samples in China could provide an elusive answer to ubiquitous microplastic pollution in water across the globe, a new report suggests.

Just as importantly, the filter’s production appears to be scalable, the University of Wuhan study authors said in the paper, which was peer-reviewed and published in the journal Science Advances. That would address a problem that has stymied the use of previous microplastic filtration systems that were successful in controlled settings, but could not be scaled up.
 
Sort of sciency....a word puzzle to keep you amused while riding is limited.
I have the stunning total of 16 of 53 words identified, 🤪
Recruited partner who has just finished a constellations jig saw so has some advantage. This will go on the wall somewhere
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2 we are at 33 53
 
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now 38 of 53 a couple new to us ...more luck than planning, 🍿 :sleep:

Partner is relentless ...now she has 51 of 53 identified and she's doing it with pen and ink - no fancy coloured screens :oops:
 
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Giant sloths and mastodons coexisted with humans for millennia in Americas, new discoveries suggest

For a long time, scientists believed the first humans to arrive in the Americas soon killed off these giant ground sloths through hunting, along with many other massive animals like mastodons, sabre-toothed cats and dire wolves that once roamed North and South America.

10,000 years co-existence....sort puts a hole in the rapacious humans killing them all off quickly idea. And knocks down the no humans in North America before Clovis nonsense that has been crumbling rapidly the last few years.

 
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