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Month: December 2016

America’s oldest mummy is coming home – to Nevada.

7 December 2016 grant 0

Nature salutes the gene-sequencing of the 10,600-year-old Spirit Cave Man – and his return to what we now know are his descendants, the Fallon Paiute-Shoshone Tribe:

The case follows

… Read the rest “America’s oldest mummy is coming home – to Nevada.”

Bits of your brain are falling asleep and waking up right now.

6 December 2016 grant 0

Science Daily looks at the neurons that rev up and those that spin down when different parts of your brain are used – a trick based on humans’ knack for “selective attention”… Read the rest “Bits of your brain are falling asleep and waking up right now.”

Science Art: The Sun, December 4, 2016, Wavelengths 304-211-171

5 December 2016 grant 0

From Sun In Time: http://sdowww.lmsal.com/suntoday_v2/index.html?suntoday_date=2016-12-04
Click to embiggen

Look up just right, and this is what you’ll see.

From the “Sun In Time” page of the Solar Dynamics Observatory’s Atmospheric Imaging Assembly… Read the rest “Science Art: The Sun, December 4, 2016, Wavelengths 304-211-171”

Discarded computers could bring Israelis and Palestinians together

2 December 2016 grant 0

Nature seems awfully optimistic about a program for recycling and processing “e-waste” in the Holy Land:

Electronics are dismantled in nearby villages as part of a massive

… Read the rest “Discarded computers could bring Israelis and Palestinians together”

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