Weekly Science Update 11 March, 2023
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This week is all about paleontology, anthropology, and history.
How Humans Lost Their Fur
Some Ancient 'Human' Tools May Be the Work of Monkeys
https://gizmodo.com/macaques-make-stone ... 1850212505
Archaeology mystery as 1,500-year-old pendant features inscription of Norse god
https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/ ... in-denmark
Bronze Age craftspeople tempered steel more than 1,000 years before the Romans did it
https://www.livescience.com/bronze-age- ... ans-did-it
Is this man the father of modern science?
Anaximander and the Nature of Science
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/ ... e-universe
Discovery of oldest known fossil gnat shows how insects adapted to a postapocalyptic world
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-discovery ... sects.html
6 of the most famous telescopes in history
https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/spac ... elescopes/
OK, I snuck in some Astronomy... so here's more!
Distant Star Has Two Potentially Habitable Planets Orbiting It
https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sc ... rbiting-it
How are the atoms that form us forged across the universe?
https://www.newscientist.com/article/23 ... -universe/
And we close with this sad news...
Sorry, Star Trek fans, the real planet Vulcan doesn’t exist
https://www.popsci.com/science/exoplane ... not-exist/
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