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Released: 24-Aug-2020 2:35 PM EDT
New species of Cretaceous brittle star named in honour of Nightwish vocalist
PeerJ

Palaeontologists from the Natural History Museums in Luxembourg and Maastricht have discovered a previously unknown species of brittle star that lived in the shallow, warm sea which covered parts of the present-day Netherlands at the end of the Dinosaur Era

Released: 24-Aug-2020 8:15 AM EDT
University of North Dakota faculty member’s book traces history of ‘Blaming Teachers’
University of North Dakota

Noting that professionalization helped doctors and lawyers secure higher-status, higher-paying jobs, while landing teachers on only the bottom rung of a K-12 bureaucracy ladders, D’Amico Pawlewicz asks and answers, ‘Why?

Released: 21-Aug-2020 3:35 PM EDT
Research links Southeast Asia megadrought to drying in Africa
University of Pennsylvania

Physical evidence found in caves in Laos helps tell a story about a connection between the end of the Green Sahara, when once heavily vegetated Northern Africa became a hyper-arid landscape, and a previously unknown megadrought that crippled Southeast Asia 4,000 to 5,000 years ago.

Released: 21-Aug-2020 12:45 PM EDT
The impacts of gentrification on transportation and social support
Portland State University

The historically Black district of Albina in Portland, Oregon, due to racist real estate practices, faced multiple displacement events between 1960 and 1990 with the construction of Interstate 5 through the heart of the neighborhood as well as wholesale destruction of hundreds of homes to make room for the Memorial Coliseum and various other urban renewal projects.

Released: 20-Aug-2020 12:50 PM EDT
New research showcases Italian town as blueprint for 'anchor entrepreneurship' framework
City University London

New research from The Business School (formerly Cass) has shed light on how Mirandola, a small town in the North East of Italy, became a major hub for the production of medical devices and sets a roadmap for the origins of industrialisation in small, quiet communities.

     
Released: 12-Aug-2020 5:05 PM EDT
A historian's 40-year quest to retrace the extraordinary life of activist Mary Talbert
University at Buffalo

A century separates the lives of these two women, but they share much in common: Both are educators and community activists. Both are deeply committed to the fight for social justice. Both are tireless in their work.

Released: 11-Aug-2020 1:35 PM EDT
New book explores four major threats to US democracy
Cornell University

In their new book, “Four Threats: The Recurring Crises of American Democracy,” Suzanne Mettler, professor of government at Cornell University, and Robert Lieberman, professor of political science at Johns Hopkins University, not only assert that history repeats itself – they also identify the underlying causes of democracy destabilization. American democracy has often been fragile, they argue, and today it faces an unprecedented crisis.

Released: 11-Aug-2020 1:30 PM EDT
Anthropology professor finds evidence of wine, caffeine in 500-year-old pottery
Wichita State University

From suburbia to cities across the globe, caffeine and wine are often a source of collective comfort: the first for a morning pick-me-up, the latter to unwind. Now a Wichita State University professor has discovered evidence to suggest that even our ancient ancestors enjoyed these drinks.

   
23-Jul-2020 10:10 AM EDT
Archaeological site in peril: accelerated bone deterioration over the last 70 years at famous Mesolithic peat bog site Ageröd
PLOS

Alarming results from a 2019 survey of well-known archaeological site Ageröd reveal drastic bone and organic matter deterioration since the site’s initial excavations in the 1940s, suggesting action is needed to preserve findings from Ageröd and similar sites, according to a study published July 29, 2020 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Adam Boethius from Lund University, Sweden, and colleagues.

Released: 29-Jul-2020 12:50 PM EDT
UIC Library announces the Richard M. Daley Oral History Project
University of Illinois Chicago

Consists of 45 interviews including discussions with Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush.

Released: 27-Jul-2020 8:30 AM EDT
Looking back at a historic academic year
University of Georgia

We take a look back at some key accomplishments from UGA’s most recent academic year, memories that celebrate the courage and determination that helped us persevere through uncertain times.

Released: 23-Jul-2020 6:05 PM EDT
Reexamining the history of slavery through 23andMe African ancestry data
Cell Press

The effects of the forced deportation of over 10 million African people during the transatlantic slave trade remain entrenched in the DNA of people from North, Central, and South America as well as the Caribbean.

Released: 23-Jul-2020 9:00 AM EDT
Reading the Unreadable: Brent Seales and Team Reveal Dead Sea Scroll Text
University of Kentucky

“When I first saw the text inside the scroll, it felt like I was a kid again — like digging through the sand for fossils at one of those museum exhibits and actually finding one. I was so excited,” Tamasi said. “I was the first person to see the contents of the scroll this millennium. There aren’t many opportunities like that.”

Released: 21-Jul-2020 8:20 AM EDT
DNA reveals 2,500-year-old Siberian warrior was a woman
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT)

In 1988, archaeologists from the RAS Institute for the History of Material Culture discovered a unique Scythian burial mound dating from the seventh century B.C. In one of the coffins, they found what was long believed to be the mummified remains of a teenage warrior boy buried with his weapons. According to cutting-edge DNA analysi by researchers from the Historical Genetics Lab at MIPT, the body actually belongs to a female, confirming Herodotus’ 2,500-year-old accounts of the Amazons, previously considered mythical.

Released: 20-Jul-2020 2:45 PM EDT
Hallowed Halls
California State University (CSU) Chancellor's Office

Part of the CSU’s mission is “to advance and extend knowledge, learning and culture, especially throughout California.” And, as a statewide institution, its campus museums, galleries and library collections have a unique ability to fulfill this mission by both preserving the state’s shared legacy and introducing the community to cultures, history and people from around the world. Take a look at how a few of the CSU’s varied cultural institutions are doing that.

14-Jul-2020 8:00 AM EDT
Eradicating disease: Scientists trace and identify origin of smallpox vaccine strains used in Civil War
McMaster University

Scientists and historians working at McMaster University, the Mütter Museum and the University of Sydney have pieced together the genomes of old viruses that were used as vaccination strains during and after the American Civil War ultimately leading to the eradication of smallpox.

Released: 16-Jul-2020 8:45 AM EDT
Breakthrough in studying ancient DNA from Doggerland that separates the UK from Europe
University of Warwick

Thousands of years ago the UK was physically joined to the rest of Europe through an area known as Doggerland. However, a marine inundation took place during the mid-holocene, separating the British landmass from the rest of Europe, which is now covered by the North Sea.

Released: 15-Jul-2020 5:10 PM EDT
Rewriting history: New evidence challenges Euro-centric narrative of early colonization
Washington University in St. Louis

New research from Washington University in St. Louis provides evidence that Indigenous people continued to live in southeastern U.S. and actively resist European influence for nearly 150 years after the arrival of Spanish explorers in the 1500s.



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