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Fossil discovery in the Geiseltal Collection: researchers identify unique bird skull

Martin-Luther-Universitat Halle-Wittenberg — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 05:30:05 EST

An international team of researchers reports on unique bird skull in "Palaeontologia Electronica". The flightless bird called Diatryma roamed the Geiseltal region in southern Saxony-Anhalt in Germany around 45 million years ago. The only other place that a similar skull fossil has been found is the USA.

Lyns-Virginie Belony: A Different Take on Haitian History

Universite de Montreal — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 17:40:48 EST

Born in Haiti and raised in Quebec, the young researcher has joined UdeM's history department as an assistant professor.

Documenting and Preserving Ukraine's Architectural Treasures

Universite de Montreal — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 04:25:04 EST

An UdeM assistant professor travelled to the war zone as part of an international project to help preserve the country's important buildings.

AIP Launches 2025 Research Agenda, Invites Collaboration Across the Physical Sciences

American Institute of Physics (AIP) — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 21:15:13 EST

AIP is launching its first annual research agenda as part of a new strategy to explore pressing topics at the nexus of history, policy, and culture. The Institute's 2025 agenda is the result of a monthslong engagement with stakeholders, including AIP's 10 Member Societies, and throughout the year, AIP's expert social scientists, historians, librarians, policy analysts, and archivists will work on projects to identify issues where social science, policy analysis, and historical research could provide useful context as the physical sciences community seeks to engage in positive change in how our science is done and by whom.

Digitizing Hope: Collaboration Helps Preserve a Species on the Brink of Extinction

Florida Atlantic University — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 08:30:30 EST

Using state-of-the-art, high resolution micro-CT scanning, FAU researchers have scanned a full skeleton of a very rare vaquita specimen from the 1960s. The objective of scanning this rare specimen for display purposes is to facilitate the creation of replicas to be commercially available to further education and conservation efforts of this critically endangered species. The completed scans, which required approximately 165 hours, resulted in a total of three terabytes of data.

World's Oldest 3D Map Discovered

University of Adelaide — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 20:00:22 EST

Researchers have discovered what may be the world's oldest three-dimensional map, located within a quartzitic sandstone megaclast in the Paris Basin.

Zimmerli Celebrates Native American Artists With "Indigenous Identities"

Rutgers University-New Brunswick — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 18:50:56 EST

The Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University-New Brunswick stands within Lenapehoking, the historical territory of the Lenni-Lenape people.

New MSU Study Explains the Delayed Rise of Plants, Animals on Land

Michigan State University — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 16:25:32 EST

If you like the smell of spring roses, the sounds of summer birdsong and the colors of fall foliage, you have the stabilization of the ozone layer to thank for it. Located in the stratosphere where it shields the Earth from harmful ultraviolet radiation, the ozone layer plays a key role in preserving the planet's biodiversity.

DNA Adds New Chapter to Indonesia's Layered Human History

University of Adelaide — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 18:50:07 EST

A new study from the University of Adelaide and The Australian National University (ANU) has outlined the first genomic evidence of early migration from New Guinea into the Wallacea, an archipelago containing Timor-Leste and hundreds of inhabited eastern Indonesian islands.

Dinosaurs Roamed the Northern Hemisphere Millions of Years Earlier Than Previously Thought, According to New Analysis of the Oldest North American Fossils

University of Wisconsin-Madison — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 15:10:57 EST

A newly described dinosaur whose fossils were uncovered by University of Wisconsin-Madison paleontologists is challenging the existing narrative, with evidence that the reptiles were present in the northern hemisphere millions of years earlier than previously known.

Cornell Professor Reconstructs Ancient Canoe Using Mathematics

Cornell College — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 20:50:57 EST

Cornell Associate Professor of Mathematics Fabian Candelaria used mathematics to study a fragment of a colonial canoe that floated ashore on the west coast of Puerto Rico after sitting underwater for hundreds of years.

Illinois Historian: Midwest Played a Crucial Role in Black Freedom Movements Worldwide

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 18:45:22 EST

University of Illinois professor of African American studies and history Erik S. McDuffie examines the influence of political activist Marcus Garvey and the importance of the Midwest in the growth of Black internationalism and radicalism in his new book, "The Second Battle for Africa: Garveyism, the U.S. Heartland and Global Black Freedom."

Uncovering the Pigments and Techniques Used to Paint the Berlin Wall

American Chemical Society (ACS) — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 08:00:00 EST

Street art takes many forms, and the vibrant murals on the Berlin Wall both before and after its fall are expressions of people's opinions. But there was often secrecy around the processes for creating the paintings, which makes them hard to preserve. Now, researchers reporting in the Journal of the American Chemical Society have uncovered information about this historic site from paint chips by combining a handheld detector and artificial intelligence (AI) data analysis.

Implementing Ancient Agricultural Practices to Confront Modern-Day Challenges of Water Scarcity and Food Insecurity

Bar-Ilan University — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 19:55:05 EST

A new study exploring traditional sunken groundwater-harvesting agroecosystems in coastal and inland sand (SGHAS) bodies of Israel, Iran, Egypt, Algeria, Gaza, and the Atlantic coast of Iberia offers fresh perspectives on ancient agricultural techniques that could inform modern sustainability practices. The research, which combines geospatial analysis, archaeological findings, and historical documentation, sheds light on the innovative use of water-harvesting and soil-enrichment technologies developed in the early Islamic period and their continued relevance to contemporary agricultural challenges.

Notre Dame Cathedral to Reopen

University of Miami — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 17:30:36 EST

University of Miami professors discuss the history of the cathedral and the efforts to restore it following the 2019 fire.

Bar-Ilan University's Launches Free Online Course on Ancient Jerusalem

Bar-Ilan University — Sat, 30 Nov 2024 13:05:15 EST

Bar-Ilan University has just launched a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) titled Jerusalem: A Journey Through Time. This comprehensive, introductory course delves into the history and archaeology of one of the world's most fascinating cities, covering its evolution from its earliest foundations to the Muslim conquest.

Sharing is Caring: Central Europe's First Farmers Lived in Equality

University of Vienna — Fri, 29 Nov 2024 05:00:00 EST

An international team of researchers led by Pere Gelabert and Ron Pinhasi of the University of Vienna and David Reich of Harvard University has produced the most complete set of Early Neolithic genetic data from Central Europe to date. The results of this study, just published in Nature Human Behaviour, reveal that the culture responsible for the expansion of agriculture in Central Europe 8,000 years ago showed no signs of population stratification.

A Fossil First: Scientists Find 1.5-Million-Year-Old Footprints of Two Different Species of Human Ancestors at Same Spot

Rutgers University-New Brunswick — Thu, 28 Nov 2024 14:00:00 EST

More than a million years ago, on a hot savannah teeming with wildlife near the shore of what would someday become Lake Turkana in Kenya, two completely different species of hominins may have passed each other as they scavenged for food. Scientists know this because they have examined 1.5-million-year-old fossils they unearthed and have concluded they represent the first example of two sets of hominin footprints made about the same time on an ancient lake shore. The discovery will provide more insight into human evolution and how species cooperated and competed with one another, the scientists said.

At the Roots of Business Ethics: A New Reading of the Merchant of Venice

Journal of Business Ethics — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 08:55:11 EST

The Parasaurolophus' Pipes: Modeling the Dinosaur's Crest To Study Its Sound #ASA187

Acoustical Society of America (ASA) — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 16:30:00 EST

Hongjun Lin from New York University will present results on the acoustic characteristics of a physical model of the Parasaurolophus' crest as part of the virtual 187th ASA Meeting. Lin created a physical setup made of tubes to represent a mathematical model that will allow researchers to discover what was happening acoustically inside the crest.

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