Scientists briefly trap a form of antimatter [via The Los Angeles Times] Physicists at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, have confirmed that they successfully trapped 38 particles of antihydrogen for two-tenths of a second. The achievement is being hailed as a scientific breakthrough, although the amount stored wouldn’t provide enough energy to power [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Archaeology’
Morning Briefing: 18 November 2010
Posted in Morning Briefing, tagged Antimatter, Archaeology, CERN, London, Physics, Roman Empire, Russia on November 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Recent Discoveries Challenge Perceptions about Primate Origins, Human Migration, Tool Usage
Posted in Science, tagged Anthropoids, Anthropology, Archaeology, China, Conservation, Ehud Netzer, Evolution, Homo floresiensis, Israel, Libya, Neanderthals, Primates, Primatology, South Africa, Tool-making on October 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Three new archaeological finds have provided evidence questioning anthropologists’ previous theory that primates originated in Africa and pushing back accepted dates on migration to Asia and the origins of stone tool-making. The questions start with a new study published in Nature describing newly discovered anthropoid fossils in Dur At-Talah in Libya. Anthropoids are the primate [...]
Morning Briefing: 29 October 2010
Posted in Morning Briefing, tagged Anthropology, Archaeology, Bill Kelso, Blindness, Jamestown, Mad Men, Neuroscience, Pocahontas, Publishing, Roger Sterling, Sterling's Gold on October 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Pocahontas’ Wedding Site Found [via Discovery News] Archaeologists working in the historic site of the Jamestown settlement in Virginia have uncovered what they believe to be the Anglican church where Pocahontas was wed to English settler John Rolfe in 1619. Lead archaeologist Bill Kelso and his team have found a number of deep holes they [...]
Morning Briefing: 22 October 2010
Posted in Morning Briefing, tagged 2012, Archaeology, Astronomy, Galaxies, Hospitals, Mayans, Norman Invasion on October 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Most distant galaxy identified [via The Daily Telegraph] Writing in Nature yesterday a group of European scientists announced the discovery of the galaxy most distant from our own — UDFy-38135539, 13.1 billion lightyears away. Light from the galaxy, therefore, has taken most of the universe’s life to reach us; the Big Bang happened approximately 13.7 [...]
Morning Briefing: 29 September 2010
Posted in Morning Briefing, tagged Archaeology, Crater, Daily Telegraph, Indonesia, Lesbians, World War I on September 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Editor’s note: Today’s Morning Briefing is all from the Daily Telegraph, because Britons do it better. First World War officially ends [via The Daily Telegraph] World War I will technically end this weekend, 92 years after guns stopped firing, when Germany makes its final payment of £59.5 million in reparations. Germany originally owed France, Belgium [...]
Morning Briefing: 21 September 2010
Posted in Morning Briefing, tagged Archaeology, Christine O'Donnell, Hypertrichosis, Iraq, Wicca on September 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Bearded Lady Reunites With Long-Lost Son [via AOL News] 33-year-old Kansan Richard Lorenc began searching for his biological parents, he probably didn’t expect to find this. Lorenc discovered his mother is Vivian Wheeler, who suffers from a disease called hypertrichosis, or werewolf syndrome. Wheeler (and her mother) were both born with inch-and-a-half beards, and she [...]
