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Humans not from single ancestral population in one region of Africa

Written by Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History

A scientific consortium led by Dr. Eleanor Scerri, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Oxford and researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, has found that human ancestors were scattered across Africa, and largely kept apart by a combination of diverse habitats and shifting environmental boundaries, such as forests and deserts.

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Scientists detect evidence of a star devouring a planet

Written by Massachusetts Institute of Technology

For nearly a century, astronomers have puzzled over the curious variability of young stars residing in the Taurus-Auriga constellation some 450 light years from Earth. One star in particular has drawn astronomers’ attention. Every few decades, the star’s light has faded briefly before brightening again.

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Are consciousness, free will and God scientifically insoluble mysteries?

Written by Michael Shermer


Credit: Izhar Cohen

In 1967 British biologist and Nobel laureate Sir Peter Medawar famously characterized science as, in book title form, The Art of the Soluble. “Good scientists study the most important problems they think they can solve. It is, after all, their professional business to solve problems, not merely to grapple with them,” he wrote.

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Massive Green Disaster: Wind Turbine Disposal

Written by Jason Hopkins

Thousands of aging wind turbines will eventually need to be decommissioned, but the disposal of this “green” technology could prove to be a dirty job for environmental regulators.

While not nearly as productive as coal, natural gas or nuclear, wind turbines can churn out power more efficiently than solar panels, making them a more viable option of the renewable energy sector.

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Court: US government broke the law on vaccine safety for 30 years

Written by Jon Rappoport

For 30 years, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) broke the law regarding vaccine safety, and no one noticed or cared.

Then two men came along and discovered the scandal: Robert F Kennedy, Jr. (twitter), head of the World Mercury Project, and Del Bigtree (twitter 1twitter 2FBweb), the producer of the film Vaxxed. They filed papers in court, and they won their case.

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Greenland’s Lost Summer

Written by Daniel Ackerman

Late Snowpack Signals a Lost Summer for Greenland's Shorebirds
A Baird’s sandpiper, a migratory shorebird that breeds in the Arctic, probes for food in the late spring snowpack near Baker Lake, Nunavut, Canada. Credit: © and courtesy of Paul Smith, Environment and Climate Change Canada

Millions of shorebirds descend on the Arctic each year to mate and raise chicks during the tundra’s brief burst of summer. But that burst, which usually begins in mid-June, never arrived this year for eastern Greenland’s shorebirds, a set of ground-nesting species.

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Cold temperatures Engulf Australia’s east coast

Written by Adam McCleery

Sydney recorded temperatures as low as 4.5 degrees at Sydney Airport and 5.1 degrees at Sydney's Observatory Hill

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Enormous diamond cache detected deep in Earth’s interior

Written by Massachusetts Institute of Technology

There may be more than a quadrillion tons of diamond hidden in the Earth’s interior, according to a new study from MIT and other universities. But the new results are unlikely to set off a diamond rush. The scientists estimate the precious minerals are buried more than 100 miles below the surface, far deeper than any drilling expedition has ever reached.

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Italian forecasters connect solar minimum and global cooling

Written by www.iceagenow.info

“It seems something can not be hidden longer…” says Italian geologist Dr Mirco Poletto.

“On ‘Il meteo’, an Italian weather forecast website, they continue talking about solar minimum and cooling,” says Dr Poletto. “The funny thing: they say the sun is “unusually” weak, showing no knowledge about long term solar cycles. Going on in the article, however, they mention Maunder minimum, the little ice age, and other cold periods.”

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How Fast are Sea Levels Rising?

Written by Hans Schreuder

Warning: this article is not for the gullible or the faint-hearted. The alarmist message is in line with genuine alarmist messages in that it ignores the facts and draws a conclusion that does not bear scrutiny, similar to the UN IPCC messages.

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