An international team has found the earliest and largest monumental cemetery in eastern Africa. The Lothagam North Pillar Site was built 5,000 years ago by early pastoralists living around Lake …read more Source:: Science
Day: August 20, 2018
Light from ancient quasars helps confirm quantum entanglement
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•New research boosts the case for quantum entanglement. Scientists have used distant quasars, one of which emitted its light 7.8 billion years ago and the other 12.2 billion years ago, …read more Source:: Science
Carbon reserves in Central American soils still affected by ancient Mayan deforestation
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•Deforestation is suspected to have contributed to the mysterious collapse of Mayan civilization more than 1,000 years ago. A new study shows that the forest-clearing also decimated carbon reservoirs in …read more Source:: Science
Taking the brain apart to put it all together again
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•A new Organ Chip system linked a Brain Chip with two blood-brain barrier (BBB) Chips to recapitulate the interactions between the brain and its blood vessels. This system reacts to …read more Source:: Science
Near two million acres on fire in the United States
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•The West Coast of the United States is shrouded in smoke from the 110 large fires (this does not include smaller fires within each complex of fires) that have erupted …read more Source:: Science