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Newswise: On Darwin Day: The Largest Collection of Caricatures of Charles Darwin and Evolution in History Unveiled
10-Feb-2025 1:00 AM EST
On Darwin Day: The Largest Collection of Caricatures of Charles Darwin and Evolution in History Unveiled
National University of Singapore (NUS)

On Darwin Day, 12 February 2025, the Darwin Online project at the National University of Singapore (NUS) launches the largest collection of caricatures of Charles Darwin and evolution in history.

Newswise: CSUF to Share Over 500 Historical Interviews with Planned Aviation Museum in Irvine
Released: 10-Feb-2025 9:10 AM EST
CSUF to Share Over 500 Historical Interviews with Planned Aviation Museum in Irvine
California State University, Fullerton

Over 500 Cal State Fullerton oral histories documenting the former Marine Corps Air Station El Toro will soon be available at the future Flying Leatherneck Aviation Museum, set to open at the Great Park in Irvine as early as spring 2027.

Newswise: CSUF Contributes Oral Histories to Planned Aviation Museum in Irvine
Released: 7-Feb-2025 7:20 PM EST
CSUF Contributes Oral Histories to Planned Aviation Museum in Irvine
California State University, Fullerton

al State Fullerton oral histories documenting Orange County’s military history at the former Marine Corps Air Station El Toro will soon be accessible to visitors of the future Flying Leatherneck Aviation Museum. Set to open at the Great Park in Irvine as early as fall 2026, the Flying Leatherneck Aviation Museum’s mission is to preserve Marine aviation history. Its new building will showcase military artifacts and aircraft.

Newswise: Missing Link in Indo-European Languages' History Found
5-Feb-2025 5:00 AM EST
Missing Link in Indo-European Languages' History Found
University of Vienna

Where lies the origin of the Indo-European language family? Ron Pinhasi and his team in the Department of Evolutionary Anthropology at the University of Vienna contribute a new piece to this puzzle in collaboration with David Reich's ancient DNA laboratory at Harvard University. They analyzed ancient DNA from 435 individuals from archaeological sites across Eurasia between 6.400–2.000 BCE. They found out that a newly recognized Caucasus-Lower Volga population can be connected to all Indo-European-speaking populations. The new study is published in Nature.

Newswise: Research Reveals Corporate Strategy to Support Black-Owned Businesses, Avoid Backlash
Released: 27-Jan-2025 6:40 PM EST
Research Reveals Corporate Strategy to Support Black-Owned Businesses, Avoid Backlash
Washington University in St. Louis

An analysis of Yelp’s “Black-owned business” search function by Oren Reshef at Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis shows revealing business owners’ race can boost consumer engagement and sales in markets where consumer demand exists.

Newswise: Preserving Asian Horseshoe Crab Populations Through Targeted Conservation Strategies
Released: 26-Jan-2025 9:35 PM EST
Preserving Asian Horseshoe Crab Populations Through Targeted Conservation Strategies
National University of Singapore (NUS)

NUS biologists conduct the first comprehensive population study of all three Asian horseshoe crab species, mapping their population distribution, evolutionary histories and vulnerabilities to climate change to propose customised conservation strategies.

Newswise: When Human Ancestors Began Eating Meat Remains a Mystery
Released: 22-Jan-2025 5:30 PM EST
When Human Ancestors Began Eating Meat Remains a Mystery
Stony Brook University

An international team of researchers including Dominic Stratford, PhD, of Stony Brook University and the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa, have discovered that an ancient human ancestor found in deposits at the Sterkfontein Caves, Australopithecus, which lived more than three million years ago in South Africa, primarily ate plant-based foods. The finding, published in the journal Science, stems from an analysis of tooth enamel from seven Australopithecus fossils and is significant because the emergence of meat eating is thought to be a key driver of a large increase in brain size seen in later hominins.

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Released: 22-Jan-2025 5:10 PM EST
Collaborative Project Seeks to Preserve Endangered Indigenous Languages, Cultural Knowledge
Indiana University

A new three-year initiative seeks to preserve and sustain traditional communication practices among Navajo and Lakota communities.

Newswise: Fossil discovery in the Geiseltal Collection: researchers identify unique bird skull
Released: 22-Jan-2025 5:30 AM EST
Fossil discovery in the Geiseltal Collection: researchers identify unique bird skull
Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg

An international team of researchers reports on unique bird skull in "Palaeontologia Electronica". The flightless bird called Diatryma roamed the Geiseltal region in southern Saxony-Anhalt in Germany around 45 million years ago. The only other place that a similar skull fossil has been found is the USA.

Released: 20-Jan-2025 5:40 PM EST
Lyns-Virginie Belony: A Different Take on Haitian History
Universite de Montreal

Born in Haiti and raised in Quebec, the young researcher has joined UdeM’s history department as an assistant professor.

 
Released: 17-Jan-2025 4:25 AM EST
Documenting and Preserving Ukraine’s Architectural Treasures
Universite de Montreal

An UdeM assistant professor travelled to the war zone as part of an international project to help preserve the country’s important buildings.

Newswise: AIP Launches 2025 Research Agenda, Invites Collaboration Across the Physical Sciences
Released: 15-Jan-2025 9:15 PM EST
AIP Launches 2025 Research Agenda, Invites Collaboration Across the Physical Sciences
American Institute of Physics (AIP)

AIP is launching its first annual research agenda as part of a new strategy to explore pressing topics at the nexus of history, policy, and culture. The Institute’s 2025 agenda is the result of a monthslong engagement with stakeholders, including AIP’s 10 Member Societies, and throughout the year, AIP’s expert social scientists, historians, librarians, policy analysts, and archivists will work on projects to identify issues where social science, policy analysis, and historical research could provide useful context as the physical sciences community seeks to engage in positive change in how our science is done and by whom.

Newswise: Digitizing Hope: Collaboration Helps Preserve a Species on the Brink of Extinction
Released: 14-Jan-2025 8:30 AM EST
Digitizing Hope: Collaboration Helps Preserve a Species on the Brink of Extinction
Florida Atlantic University

Using state-of-the-art, high resolution micro-CT scanning, FAU researchers have scanned a full skeleton of a very rare vaquita specimen from the 1960s. The objective of scanning this rare specimen for display purposes is to facilitate the creation of replicas to be commercially available to further education and conservation efforts of this critically endangered species. The completed scans, which required approximately 165 hours, resulted in a total of three terabytes of data.

Newswise: World’s Oldest 3D Map Discovered
Released: 13-Jan-2025 8:00 PM EST
World’s Oldest 3D Map Discovered
University of Adelaide

Researchers have discovered what may be the world’s oldest three-dimensional map, located within a quartzitic sandstone megaclast in the Paris Basin.

Newswise: Zimmerli Celebrates Native American Artists With “Indigenous Identities”
Released: 9-Jan-2025 6:50 PM EST
Zimmerli Celebrates Native American Artists With “Indigenous Identities”
Rutgers University-New Brunswick

The Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University-New Brunswick stands within Lenapehoking, the historical territory of the Lenni-Lenape people.

Released: 8-Jan-2025 4:25 PM EST
New MSU Study Explains the Delayed Rise of Plants, Animals on Land
Michigan State University

If you like the smell of spring roses, the sounds of summer birdsong and the colors of fall foliage, you have the stabilization of the ozone layer to thank for it. Located in the stratosphere where it shields the Earth from harmful ultraviolet radiation, the ozone layer plays a key role in preserving the planet’s biodiversity.

Newswise: DNA Adds New Chapter to Indonesia’s Layered Human History
Released: 7-Jan-2025 6:50 PM EST
DNA Adds New Chapter to Indonesia’s Layered Human History
University of Adelaide

A new study from the University of Adelaide and The Australian National University (ANU) has outlined the first genomic evidence of early migration from New Guinea into the Wallacea, an archipelago containing Timor-Leste and hundreds of inhabited eastern Indonesian islands.

   
Newswise: Dinosaurs Roamed the Northern Hemisphere Millions of Years Earlier Than Previously Thought, According to New Analysis of the Oldest North American Fossils
Released: 7-Jan-2025 3:10 PM EST
Dinosaurs Roamed the Northern Hemisphere Millions of Years Earlier Than Previously Thought, According to New Analysis of the Oldest North American Fossils
University of Wisconsin–Madison

A newly described dinosaur whose fossils were uncovered by University of Wisconsin–Madison paleontologists is challenging the existing narrative, with evidence that the reptiles were present in the northern hemisphere millions of years earlier than previously known.

Newswise: Cornell Professor Reconstructs Ancient Canoe Using Mathematics
Released: 16-Dec-2024 8:50 PM EST
Cornell Professor Reconstructs Ancient Canoe Using Mathematics
Cornell College

Cornell Associate Professor of Mathematics FabiĂ n Candelaria used mathematics to study a fragment of a colonial canoe that floated ashore on the west coast of Puerto Rico after sitting underwater for hundreds of years.



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