9.7 million-year-old teeth suggest EUROPE as origin of humanity

Written by Shivali Best

The discovery of a set of 9.7-million-year-old teeth has led archaeologists to raise questions about the commonly believed ‘out-of-Africa’ theory of human origins.

The teeth, which were discovered in a former bed of the Rhine river, don’t resemble those of any other human species found in Europe or Asia. The find suggests that contrary to popular belief, Europe may be the cradle of humanity.

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The Steel Greenhouse in an Ambient-Temperature Environment

Written by Joseph E Postma

The “steel greenhouse” concept for demonstrating the radiative greenhouse effect has been debunked many times on this blog (the least reason of which its advocates attempt to conserve temperature instead of energy!), but the solution for it sitting in an ambient-temperature environment has never been demonstrated.

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‘Handful of changes’ make cancer

Written by James Gallagher

CancerImage copyright@ SPL

British scientists have worked out how many changes it takes to transform a healthy cell into a cancer. The team, at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, showed the answer was a tiny handful, between one and 10 mutations depending on the type of tumour.

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NASA’s Dawn mission gears up for close look at Ceres

Written by Stephen Clark

This artist concept shows NASA’s Dawn spacecraft above dwarf planet Ceres, as seen in images from the mission. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA

NASA’s Dawn spacecraft will remain at Ceres for the rest of its mission, heading closer to the asteroid belt’s largest resident than ever before to obtain new measurements of ice, salts and a tenuous intermittent atmosphere detected around the dwarf planet, the space agency announced Thursday.

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National Academies gear up their climate alarmism

Written by David Wojick PhD

The three US National Academies — of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine — are jointly upping their climate change activism. Collectively called NASEM, they are not satisfied with producing a steady stream of alarmist reports, videos and workshops.

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New Flexible Skin Gives Robots A Real Sense Of ‘Touch’

Written by Sophie Gallagher

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In their quest to take over the world and replace human beings, robots were missing one always crucial element – the ability to perform tasks quite as effectively as people do. But now all that has changed.

A team of robotics engineers in the USA have made an “important breakthrough” in developing a flexible skin that allows machines to feel what they are doing (and when it is going wrong) so they can rectify the situation

In order for robots to perform delicate tasks, such as cooking, housework, or surgery, they need to know whether a small or delicate object is slipping out of their grasp.

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Study: Brain function does not die immediately after heart stops

Written by Dr Ananya Mandal, MD

According to new research, people can be aware that they are dead after their heart has stopped beating. This suggests that the brain and consciousness seems to work even after the body has stopped working. Dr Sam Parnia, director of critical care and resuscitation research at NYU Langone School of Medicine in New York City, and his team looked at people who had cardiac arrest and then were successfully resuscitated back to life.

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Study: Sea Life Benefits from Climate Change

Written by PSI staff

New study titled ‘The Interactive Effects of Elevated CO2 and Solar Radiation Intensity on Two Coccolithophore Strains’ demonstrates that more carbon dioxide can be shown to increase growth of various forms of phytoplankton.

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Summary of “The Origin of Rocks and Mineral Deposits – Using Current Physical Chemistry of Small Particle Systems”

Written by John Elliston

This important book is a comprehensive interdisciplinary scientific treatise that introduces revolutionary new knowledge achieved by competent use of the scientific method. The research on which it is based has been more thoroughly and critically reviewed than is usual for scientific works and the international edition has recently been published.

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