Weekly Science Report 10-24-25
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Weekly Science Report
October 24, 2025
“When words are both true and kind, they can change the world.”
Buddha
Introduction
Steve Detwiler created this publication with the support of Graham Hancock and the late John Anthony West to share news and information on various disciplines to include but not limited to paleontology, space sciences, genetics, and archaeology. His goal behind sharing this publication has always been very simple, by sharing knowledge we can make our world a better place. This publication is Mr. Detwiler’s contribution to bring people together and share ideas and discoveries with his fellow humans.
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News Articles
Paleontology, Evolution and Prehistoric Studies
Discovery of 11,000-year-old carved face in Turkey offers new insight into early human expression
Our Human Ancestors Were Exposed to Lead, and New Research Suggests It May Have Shaped Human Evolution
Meet the Extinct Camels of North America, From Ice Age Giants to Sheep-Size Runners
Subsurface Scanning Detects Structures at World’s Oldest Cult Center
Not hunters but collectors: The bone that challenges the 'humans wiped out Australian megafauna' theory
Did Humans Ever Live in Peace?
Stone tools trace Paleolithic Pacific migration into North America
Neanderthals and Mesolithic hunter-gatherers shaped European landscapes long before agriculture, study reveals
Dinosaurs in New Mexico thrived until the very end, study shows
History
A hidden Kansas City mural is 'a warning' against fascism, from a Spanish artist who survived it
Julian Brave NoiseCat's survival story is both personal and ancestral
The Globe-Trotting Scholar Who Unlocked the Secrets of the Aztecs
Scientists Think a Skeleton Found in a Well Is the Same Man Described in an 800-Year-Old Norse Text
These Jewish Prisoners Revolted Against the Nazis, Killing Their Guards and Escaping From a World War II Death Camp
At Nuremberg, World War II’s Battle Turned to the Courtroom, and an Eloquent Lawyer Helped Lead the Allies to Victory
Vatican will return dozens of artifacts to Indigenous groups in Canada as gesture of reconciliation
Northern Ireland court finds soldier not guilty of murder over 'Bloody Sunday' killings
Noor Inayat Khan: Tipu Sultan's Descendant Who Fooled The Nazis In World War II
Spanish police investigate as Picasso painting vanishes on way to exhibition
Abbott: ‘Texas is targeting professors’ over ‘leftist ideologies’
'It's really an extraordinary story,' historian Steven Tuck says of the Romans he tracked who survived the AD 79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius
Study suggests two unsuspected pathogens struck Napoleon's army during the retreat from Russia in 1812
How the Mayans were able to accurately predict solar eclipses for centuries
Archaeology
High in the Andes of Northern Chile, Hunters Once Used These Stone Wall Traps to Capture Prey
Why Were All of These Bodies Buried Sitting Upright and Facing West More Than 2,000 Years Ago?
Three Shipwrecks Discovered Off the Coast of Israel Shed New Light on the History of Iron Age Maritime Trade
You Can See the Parthenon Without Scaffolding for the First Time in Decades
Maya salt-making compound found preserved underwater in Belize
Excavations reveal town's 1,400-year history
'Illegal' metal detectorist found a huge hoard of Roman treasure in Germany — and kept it hidden for 8 years
Ancient skeletons yield the first hormonal evidence of reproductive life
3D models preserve threatened Buddhist temples in Western Himalayas
Ancient Scythian animal-style art began with functional objects, study finds
Giant wooden marker post dates Cahokia's political and economic peak
Secrets of the Seven Wonders
3,000-Year-Old Village Excavated in Czech Republic
'Extremely rare' and 'highly unusual' Roman-era tomb in Germany is completely empty
Egyptology
Meet 25 of the Ancient Egyptians’ Most Significant Gods and Goddesses, From the Falcon-Headed Horus to the Sky Deity Hathor
Archaeologists Discover 3,500-Year-Old Egyptian Military Fortress in the Sinai Desert
New study suggests the ancient Egyptian plague of Akhetaten may not have happened
Discovery reveals arsenical bronze production on Egypt's Elephantine Island during the Middle Kingdom
Radiocarbon dating of Egyptian artifacts puts Thera (Santorini) volcanic eruption prior to Pharaoh Ahmose
General Science
Google claims its latest quantum algorithm can outperform supercomputers on a real-world task
Physics, Earth and Space Sciences
One NASA science mission saved from Trump’s cuts, but others still in limbo
JPL Lays Off Another 550 Workers
Physicists uncork a message in a bottle from another star
Researchers Just Revealed the First-Ever Image of Two Black Holes Orbiting Each Other
Is low Earth orbit getting too crowded? New study rings an alarm bell
Astronomers spot the most powerful and distant 'odd radio circle' ever seen
Satellites reveal weak spot in Earth's magnetic field keeps growing: "There's something special happening"
NASA will say goodbye to the International Space Station in 2030 − and welcome in the age of commercial space stations
'Planet Y' theory hints at hidden Earth-size world lurking in the solar system — and it could be much closer to us than 'Planet Nine'
Mysterious gullies on Mars appear to have been dug, but by whom or what?
This might be the smallest clump of pure dark matter ever found
A volcano or a meteorite? New evidence sheds light on puzzling discovery in Greenland's ice sheet
Isaacman Back in the Running for NASA Administrator
NASA stacks Artemis 2 moon mission's Orion capsule atop SLS rocket ahead of 2026 launch
A Brief and Amazing History of the Pleiades, Stars That Captivated Ancient Civilizations and Inspired Poets
Miners Discovered a Mysterious Smoking Object in Western Australia. Experts Think It’s Likely Unexpected Space Debris
In Orbit You Have to Slow Down to Speed Up
Discovery of elusive solar waves that could power the Sun's corona
With a new molecule-based method, physicists peer inside an atom’s nucleus
New images of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS show giant 'jet' shooting toward the sun
Environment, Climate Change and Alternative Energy Sources
Record leap in CO2 fuels fears of accelerating global heating
Scientists Resurrect 40,000-Year-Old Microbes From Alaskan Permafrost. What They Found Raised Worries About the Future of a Warming Arctic
Deep emission cuts before mid-century decisive to reduce long-term sea-level rise legacy
Biological, Genetics and Medical Sciences
Researchers Created Structures That Produced Blood Cells in the Lab—With a Process That Mimics Real Human Embryos
Scientists are modifying wildlife DNA. Should these species be released into nature?
Electronic Eye Implant Restored Vision in Patients With Age-Related Macular Degeneration
Cracking the Code of Cancer from the Inside Out
Other
Ireland Makes a Program Offering Basic Income for Artists Permanent
Disney Launches Stage Connect, Letting Elementary Schools Perform Their Musicals for Free
Additional Informational
Pseudoskepticism Isn’t Skepticism
4,000 gone: Inside NASA’s brain drain
Completed Plato spacecraft is ready for final tests
Diving deep into Mimas’ ocean: interior structure, evolution, and detection using heat flow
Geologists discover the first evidence of 4.5-billion-year-old “proto Earth”
X-Ray Study Reveals New Details About Betelgeuse’s Elusive Companion Star
A Carnian theropod with unexpectedly derived features during the first dinosaur radiation
Star Trek Boldly Goes into its 60th Year with Fan-Centric Anniversary Celebrations Throughout 2026
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945
2025 NASA’s Innovative Advanced Concepts Symposium: Part 2 — Hopping robots and the search for exoplanet magnetospheres
Mapping the Emotional Landscapes of the Holocaust: Visualizing Space and Place in Survivor Trajectories
WHOI Unlock the Ocean’s Potential Campaign
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