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The complete analysis revealed that fabrics found in the Sanxingdui pits included silk and that silk residues were partially preserved due to mineralization processes facilitated by copper ions released from bronze artifacts.

Silk traces were found wrapped around jade artifacts and covering the bronze grid-like ware, suggesting their use in ritual contexts. The uneven mineralization of the fibers and the presence of ash-layer silk residues indicated that not all silk was fully incinerated during these rituals.

Geochemistry to biology

Carbon fixation is the process by which living organisms convert carbon dioxide, in the air and dissolved in water, into organic molecules.

Many life forms, including plants, bacteria and microorganisms known as archaea, have different pathways for achieving this. Photosynthesis is one example.

Each of these pathways contains a cascade of enzymes and proteins, some of which contain cores made of iron and sulfur.

We can find proteins with these iron-sulfur clusters in all forms of life. In fact, researchers propose they date back to the Last Universal Common Ancestor – an ancient ancestral cell from which scientists propose life as we know it evolved and diversified.

Iron sulfides are minerals that form when dissolved iron reacts with hydrogen sulfide – the volcanic gas that makes hot springs smell like rotten eggs.

One of the most perplexing reports I have encountered concerns an alleged close encounter involving two priests travelling south along Thurstaston Road in Heswall just before Christmas in December 2010.

The priests were en-route to visit a gravely-ill friend at 2am, navigating treacherous roads coated in black ice and falling snow.

As their Mini approached the junction of Village Road and School Hill near the Black Horse pub, they were startled by the sight of a peculiar craft hovering just three feet above the road ahead.

The object resembled the archetypal ‘flying saucer’ - lens-shaped with a domed top - and emitted a pale blue light from a perimeter band that illuminated the icy road and snow-laden pavements.

One of the priests proposed stopping and reversing, but the other suggested approaching for a closer look.

As they neared the craft, they discerned a transparent dome atop it, within which the silhouettes of two human-like figures were visible. These figures appeared entirely ordinary, wearing dark overalls and sporting short hair.

The driver halted the Mini as his nerve faltered, squinting against a beam of light that emanated from the craft towards the car.

As the light dimmed, the men saw that one of the figures had dark hair while the other, slightly smaller, had reddish hair. Suddenly, the craft shot forward, stopping about twenty feet away. The figures were smiling.

At that moment, the car radio inexplicably switched on, emitting soft static. Then, a voice came through, asking, 'Is this the year two thousand and nineteen?' The driver, astonished, replied, 'No, it’s two thousand and ten. Who are you?' Silence followed.

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Astronomers have found over 5,000 confirmed exoplanets, with thousands more candidates. Missions like Gaia have identified thousands of nearby stellar twins where Earth-like planets could be hiding. Now it's time to find those other Earths. A new paper filters down millions of candidates into about 1,000 main-sequence stars and wide binaries worth exploring. From these, they identify the 100 best targets and, out of those, the 10 best-known planetary systems.

When the Vera Rubin Observatory comes online in a few months, it'll be the most effective asteroid and comet hunter ever built. And not just the homegrown variety, Rubin will discover interstellar objects like Oumuamua and Borisov passing through the Solar System. A new paper suggests the kinds of machine learning algorithms that will have the best chance of uncovering these fast-moving objects as they move through the field of view from night to night.

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A ghost in scorched rags. Mysterious whispers. Appliances switching on by themselves. Strange sightings at the Sparkford Inn are the stuff of local legend—can ghost hunters prove the place is haunted?

Flickers of light dance within the fireplace of the Sparkford Inn’s dining room, the warmth overshadowed by rumors of ghosts lingering in the shadows. A team of paranormal investigators arrive one misty March evening to search for a giggling boy whom many guests have reportedly seen darting around the bar, across the dining room, and playing in the pool room. Witnesses have described him as about seven years old, dressed in scorched rags, and bearing burn marks—features that suggest he is no ordinary child. He is, they claim, a ghost.

Australian researchers have created building blocks out of DNA to construct a series of nano-scale objects and shapes, from a rod and a square to an infinitesimally small dinosaur.

The approach turns DNA into a modular material for building nanostructures – thousands of times narrower than a human hair.

He interpreted the extraterrestrial message as a critique of nuclear weapons: “WTF, nuclear weapons.”

UFO encounter

According to Salas, these UFO sightings did not inflict any serious damage on the weapons systems but did disrupt their navigation systems.

When asked what he believed the extraterrestrial visitors were trying to communicate, he interpreted it as a critique of nuclear armaments: “To me, that says they were sending us a message about nuclear weapons: ‘WTF, nuclear weapons.'”

While he expressed regret for using strong language in front of Congresswoman Mace, she seemed unperturbed by his choice of words.

Salas’s remarks came amid ongoing discussions led by experts who argue that alien entities have made multiple visits to significant nuclear missile bases every year.

Aliens turned off ten nukes

One of the most striking claims from Salas is regarding an incident at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana, where he alleged a UFO disabled ten warheads.

In this encounter, he described the UFO as having an eerie red glow as it sped through the night sky on March 24, 1967.

The then-26-year-old lieutenant reported that the UFO pilots appeared to have an in-depth understanding of the missile systems.

Physicists have described a system that requires an incomputable number to fully understand, another example of the provably unprovable puzzles of mathematics

You will never be able to prove every mathematical truth. For me, this incompleteness theorem, discovered by Kurt Gödel, is one of the most incredible results in mathematics. It may not surprise everyone—there are all sorts of unprovable things in everyday life—but for mathematicians, this idea was a shock. After all, they can construct their own world from a few basic building blocks, the so-called axioms.

Only the rules they have created apply there, and all truths are made up of these basic building blocks and the corresponding rules.

If you find the right framework, experts long believed, you should therefore be able to prove every truth in some way.

After almost a century of speculation, proposals and searches for dark matter, physicists now know that it currently comprises about 27% of the universe's mass-energy, with an abundance over five times that of ordinary matter like you, oceans and exoplanets.

Most of the matter in the universe is dark. On large scales, it is cold and doesn't collide with anything we recognize, and so, it is called "cold dark matter." Many candidates have been proposed that could explain the large scale structure of the universe, but none has been established by experiments.

In several species of hominid primates with different types of locomotor behavior, we quantitatively studied the insertion sites of the brachialis and triceps brachii on the proximal epiphysis of the ulna. Our main objective was to evaluate the possibility of using the anatomical features of these insertion sites to infer the locomotor behavior of different species of fossil hominins.

The relative values for the brachialis insertion were highest in orangutans, followed by bonobos, chimpanzees, gorillas, and humans. Fossil Australopithecus and Paranthropus had values similar to those of bonobos, while fossil Homo had values similar to those of Homo sapiens. The observed similarity in ulnar attachment sites between Australopithecus and Paranthropus and extant bonobos suggest that these hominins used arboreal locomotion to complement their bipedalism. These adaptations to arboreal locomotion were not observed in Homo.

Summary

• There is a close relationship between the types of locomotion used by hominoid primates and the relative size of the brachialis and triceps brachii muscles.

• The relative mass of the brachialis and the triceps brachii muscles is related to the relative size of their insertion sites in the proximal epiphysis of the ulna.

• The morphology of the proximal epiphysis of the ulna can provide information on the locomotor behavior of fossil hominins.

"In this study," corresponding author Ron Pinhasi explains, "we report for the first time that families at the study sites of Nitra in Slovakia and Polgár-Ferenci-hát in Hungary do not differ in terms of the foods they consumed, the grave goods they were buried with, or their origins. This suggests that the people living in these Neolithic sites were not stratified on the basis of family or biological sex, and we do not detect signs of inequality, understood as differential access to resources or space."

Brutality in ancient times

The LBK culture came to an end around 5000 BCE, and various hypotheses have been proposed regarding its collapse. Some suggest that it was a period of social and economic crisis, often associated with episodes of widespread violence. One of the most famous events is the Massacre of Asparn-Schletz (Lower Austria), where more than 100 individuals were recovered from a ditch system.

For the investigation of mechanical properties microhardness measurements were made. It could be found that the Nebra Sky Disc was manufactured from a flat cast followed by hot forging process. During the forging process the disc was heated and forged for approximately 10 times.

The Nebra Sky Disc is an extraordinary relict of the Early Bronze Age and an impressive example of the profound knowledge that was available in the Únětice culture. Since it proves a detailed understanding of astronomic correlations, it became UNESCO Memory of the World. Furthermore, its manufacture was by no means trivial. While the production of axes and sheet metal jewellery by forging techniques were common practice in the Central European Early Bronze Age.

In conclusion, the rock art of Zimbabwe provides valuable insights into the musical practices and cultural traditions of ancient communities in the region. The presence of various possible types of musical instruments, including rattles, flutes, trumpets, a bullroarer and a drum, reflects the diversity of musical expression among these communities.

Comparing Zimbabwean rock art with that of South Africa highlights both similarities and differences in the depiction of musical instruments. While in both countries there are depictions of flutes, rattles, bullroarers and drums, there are variations in the specific types of instruments shown. For example, Zimbabwe shows rattles tied onto the arms and necks, while South Africa also depicts leg rattles. Additionally, South Africa and Namibia feature musical bow depictions, which are absent in Zimbabwean rock art.

Researchers just wrapped up an enormous simulation of the Universe using the Frontier supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Lab—the most powerful supercomputer on Earth. The simulation calculated the evolution of the Universe from its earliest times into a more modern era, including every known influence: matter, energy, dark matter, black holes, and more. The exascale-class supercomputer can perform more than a quintillion calculations per second.

When a radiocarbon spike is detected, the researchers then compare the tree-ring data to spikes in different isotopes such as beryllium-10 which has been locked away in ice cores retrieved from glaciers and ice sheets, another great natural time capsule. Just like carbon-14, beryllium-10 forms in the atmosphere as a result of a bombardment of solar particles, precipitation such as rain or snow captures the isotope and locks it into an ice sheet.

"If ice cores from both the North Pole and South Pole show a spike in the isotope beryllium-10 for a particular year corresponding to increased radiocarbon in tree-rings, we know there was a solar storm," Panyushkina said in the statement.

Both tree ring and ice data pinpointed the date of the extreme Miyake solar storm whose timing had long eluded researchers to between 664 and 663 BCE.

Ghosts in Medieval Beliefs

Belief in ghosts was deeply rooted in the medieval imagination. Throughout the Middle Ages, countless references to restless spirits can be found in manuscripts and folklore. These spectres were often thought to have specific reasons for their appearance, most commonly to seek assistance from the living. Unlike the malevolent spirits of modern horror tales, medieval ghosts were often portrayed as suffering souls in need of help to reach peace.

Most languages have a word that that serves as interjection for expressing pain. In Mandarin, it’s “ai-yo.” In French, it’s “aïe.” And in several Indigenous Australian languages, it’s “yakayi.” All have sound elements that seem quite similar—and that’s no coincidence, according to a new study in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. Researchers found pain interjections are more likely to contain the vowel sound “ah” (written as [a] in the International Phonetic Alphabet, or IPA) and vowel combinations that use it, such as “ow” and “ai.” These findings may point back to the origins of human language itself.

Aliens have a "non-interference policy" and want to "avoid humans," an expert has claimed. UFO researcher and historian Richard Dolan made the claim in a video clip posted to his social media pages. The 34-second clip talks about how extraterrestrial beings mainly seem to shy away from directly interacting with humans, as other experts have recently hinted.

Understanding Planetary Formation

Planetary formation traditionally follows a gradual process known as core accretion. In this model, dust and gas in a protoplanetary disk surrounding a young star coalesce into planetesimals. Over millions of years, these planetesimals collide and merge, forming larger planetary cores. Once a core reaches a critical mass, it begins to attract a significant envelope of gas, eventually forming a fully-fledged planet.

However, the discovery of fast-forming exoplanets suggests that this timeline may be far more dynamic under certain conditions. Observations of young stellar systems reveal exoplanets forming within tens of thousands to a few hundred thousand years—a fraction of the time previously assumed necessary for planetary development.

On the basis of the data presented here, we conclude that the wetland features our team has investigated in the CTWS were initially constructed by Late Archaic hunter-gatherer-fisher groups and continued to be used by the Formative Maya. They were designed to channel annual flood waters into source ponds for fish trapping.

The mass harvesting of fish in these wetland-lagoonal environments served as a primary food source capable of supporting sizeable populations and semipermanent residence in the Late Archaic and ultimately fully sedentary pre-Columbian Maya populations by Formative times.

About 1.5m years ago a big-toothed cousin of prehistoric humans walked quickly along a lakeside in Kenya, footprints marking the muddy ground. But they were not our only ancestor on the scene: treading the same ground was the early human Homo erectus.

Researchers say an analysis of fossilised footprints discovered in deposits of the Turkana Basin, northern Kenya, suggest the marks were made by two different species on the human family tree who were in the same place within hours or days of each other.

Faeces and vomit fossils from dinosaurs reveal how the animals evolved to rule Earth. The study, which was published in Nature on 27 November, analysed hundreds of pieces of fossilized digestive material, called bromalites, to reconstruct what dinosaurs ate and how this changed1. The fossils reveal that the rise of the dinosaurs, over millions of years during the Triassic period, was influenced by factors including climate change and other species’ extinction.

“Our study shows that you can use pretty seemingly unremarkable fossils to get pretty remarkable results,” says co-author Martin Qvarnström, who studies early dinosaur evolution at Uppsala University in Sweden.

At the risk of appearing overly literal, it is perhaps worth stating the obvious – that a secret satanic cult requires, above all else… secrecy.

But the Templars were never an enclosed order, secretive and shut off from society as a whole. Even as third-party witnesses condemned the Templars for being secretive, the context of their testimony often made it clear that the order was well integrated within most echelons of society. Witness statements demonstrated that outsiders were regularly invited into Templar houses and chapels, and that the brothers were happy to chat, gossip or to engage in business just like other men of their class.

Testimonies at the trials demonstrate that, far from being secretive, the Templars were in close contact with other parts of society and led a far more sociable existence than one might expect from monks.

*Ross Coulthart; Morning in America *

Drones detected near 3 US bases in England last week: Air Force

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