Science & Archaeology Report 13-July-2014
Archaeology
Dutch doubt where to return Crimean gold
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/dutch-doubt-where-return-crimean-gold
Peru: 150 Mummies of Ancient Unknown Civilisation Discovered in Atacama Desert
Jihadists destroy mosques and shrines in Iraq
http://news.yahoo.com/jihadists-destroy-mosques-shrines-iraq-113854396.html
2,500-year-old erotic graffiti found in unlikely setting on Aegean island
An Aztec shield gifted to a conquistador
http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/07/2014/an-aztec-shield-gifted-to-a-conquistador
Chalcolithic catastrophe on the Mondsee
http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/07/2014/chalcolithic-catastrophe-on-the-mondsee
ISIS Is About to Destroy Biblical History in Iraq
Remains of Long-Lost Temple Discovered in Iraq
http://www.livescience.com/46674-remains-of-long-lost-temple-discovered-in-iraq.html
Please touch the artefacts: 3D technology is changing museums
http://theconversation.com/please-touch-the-artefacts-3d-technology-is-changing-museums-28724
Off the Grid
http://www.archaeology.org/issues/139-1407/trenches/2188-off-the-grid-aruba-arikok-national-park
Huge Black Market in Native Relics Slowed by FBI Seizures
1,500-Year-Old Claws Intrigue Archaeologists in Peru
Anthropologist Searches for Answers on a Cliff in Peru
http://www.ucf.edu/pegasus/vertical-archaeology/
Were Ancient Child Skulls Gifts to the Lake Gods?
Archaeologists Investigate a Massive Ancient Mycenaean Citadel
Archaeologists mount search for lost French fleet of 1565
New mosaics discovered in synagogue excavations in Galilee
http://uncnews.unc.edu/2014/07/02/new-mosaics-discovered-synagogue-excavations-galilee/
Secrets of Salvadoran archaeological site revealed
Amateur explorers find historic fort in Everglades
Ancient Roman city discovered under Nile Delta silt
http://www.egyptindependent.com//news/ancient-roman-city-discovered-under-nile-delta-silt
Five 6,000-year-old sarcophagi unearthed in western Turkey
What Rome’s Arch-Enemies Wore Into Battle
Physics, Earth and Space Sciences
Magnetic bubble may give space probes a soft landing
New Exoplanet Has Strange Companion
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2014/07/03/new-exoplanet-strange-companion/#.U7W3tNq9KK0
Remote quantum applications, teleportation enabled by calling long distance between superconducting qubits http://phys.org/news/2014-07-remote-quantum-applications-teleportation-enabled.html#jCp
Will Our First Alien Visitors Come in Peace?
http://www.popsci.com/article/science/will-our-first-alien-visitors-come-peace?src=SOC&dom=fb
Study debunks a ‘Goldilocks’ planet thought to potentially support alien life
Have We Been Interpreting Quantum Mechanics Wrong This Whole Time?
http://www.wired.com/2014/06/the-new-quantum-reality/
Hubble Survey Spots Two New Objects Beyond Pluto
US regulators fast-track novel leukemia therapy
http://news.yahoo.com/us-regulators-fast-track-novel-leukemia-therapy-213503303.html
Confirmed: Voyager 1 in Interstellar Space
http://www.space.com/26462-voyager-1-interstellar-space-confirmed.html
Aldrin backs #Apollo45 campaign to commemorate moon landing
Ocean on Saturn Moon Could be as Salty as the Dead Sea
http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=47833
MESSENGER and STEREO measurements open new window into high-energy processes on the Sun
http://phys.org/news/2014-07-messenger-stereo-window-high-energy-sun.html
Astronomers Set Up Global System for Naming Alien Planets
http://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/astronomers-set-global-system-naming-alien-planets-n151996
Earth’s Magnetic Field Is Weakening 10 Times Faster Now
http://news.yahoo.com/earths-magnetic-field-weakening-10-times-faster-now-121247349.html
The Little Spacecraft That Couldn’t
Private light sail spacecraft to launch by 2016
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/private-light-sail-spacecraft-to-launch-by-2016/
The Most Astonishing Wave-Tracking Experiment Ever