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Early medieval inscription discovered in Saudi Arabia. www.medievalists.net/2024/07/earl...

Early medieval inscription discovered in Saudi Arabia - Medievalists.netwww.medievalists.net Archaeologists in Saudi Arabia have uncovered an inscribed stone dating back to the 5th century AD. The inscription consists of three lines, two of which are written in Thamudic script and one in ear...

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"Euro-Med Monitor field crews are investigating reports that the Israeli army forces committed extrajudicial killings and unlawful executions of numerous residents, the majority of whom were women, in western Gaza" t.co/u6JGhY0VCL

Israeli army commits horrific massacres in western Gaza, burning homes and destroying health institutionst.co The violations included willful killings, extensive destruction and burning of civilian buildings and homes

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Al-Mawasi. Nuseirat. Al-Shifa hospital. Jabaliya. The flour massacre. One after another after another after another… /1

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In a scene that makes heads turn white and hearts melt, a resilient father in northern Gaza requests for the last time to bid farewell to his martyred son through a phone call. 💔💔 The trembling of his hand and the tone of his voice itself breaks the heart 💔

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Just reported: the oldest genome of a human relative, a 200,000 year old man who lived in Siberia. The DNA came from his tooth. “The genetic sequence…is the oldest high-quality human genome yet—80,000 years older than the previous record holder: a Neanderthal that lived about 120,000 years ago”🧪🦷🧬🏺

The most ancient human genome yet has been sequenced—and it’s a Denisovan’swww.science.org 200,000-year-old DNA from Siberian cave shows our elusive, extinct cousins mated repeatedly with Neanderthals

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An interacting galaxy duo known as the Penguin and Egg marks #NASAWebb’s second anniversary of science operations! This near- and mid-infrared light image glitters with detail, including an upside-down U-shaped blue glow that highlights their interaction: webbtelescope.pub/4eWBxpZ 🔭 🧪

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Our work on the Last Universal Common Ancestor is out!! 🧬💻 To improve data reproducibility and accessibility, I have created a GitHub repository that documents the steps you need to follow to reproduce all our timetree inference analyses. (1/n) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The nature of the last universal common ancestor and its impact on the early Earth system - Nature Ecology & Evolutionwww.nature.com Integration of phylogenetics, comparative genomics and palaeobiological approaches suggests that the last universal common ancestor lived about 4.2 billion years ago and was a complex prokaryote-grade...

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Sandra Álvarez

The duplicated LUCA node age estimates we obtained under GBM and ILN with our partitioned dataset (GBM, 4.18–4.33 Ga; ILN, 4.09–4.32 Ga; Fig 1) fall within our composite age estimate for LUCA ranging from 3.94 Ga to 4.52 Ga, comparable to previous studies. (7/n)

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The US military pier built to bring humanitarian aid into Gaza will be permanently dismantled within a few days, US officials say. Since it was first manoeuvred into position in May, the pier has been operational for fewer than 20 days.

US Gaza aid pier to be permanently dismantled after operating for just 20 days | Israel-Gaza war | The Guardianamp.theguardian.com Pier, which has delivered the equivalent of a single day’s pre-war land aid deliveries in two months, will reportedly be removed in a few days’ time

Unending depravity. www.theguardian.com/world/articl...

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@guardiannews: Israeli weapons packed with shrapnel causing devastating injuries to children in Gaza, doctors say https://t.co/oe2bWs0YBG

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"The paused delivery included 1,800 2,000-pound bombs, which remain on hold, US officials said. But the supply of 1,700 500-pound bombs will move forward...Despite the pressure campaign & initial hold, the US officials said the 500-pd bombs were never a serious concern for the Biden administration."

U.S. to again ship 500-pound bombs to Israel, reversing suspensionwww.washingtonpost.com The Biden administration will send 500-pound bombs to Israel that had been held up since May over concerns about the Rafah invasion. But 2,000-pound bombs are still under review.

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My book publishes tomorrow! bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

Anyone done anything cool lately? Personal victory? End of a hard journey? Please use this excuse to brag on yourself!

The Language of Climate Politics: Fossil-Fuel Propaganda and How to Fight It a book by Genevieve Guentherbookshop.org A groundbreaking investigation into the propaganda justifying the fossil-fuel economy, The Language of Climate Politics offers readers powerful new ways to talk about the climate crisis that will help...

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"“Israel’s intentional and targeted starvation campaign against the Palestinian people is a form of genocidal violence and has resulted in famine across all of Gaza,” 10 independent UN experts said in a statement on Tuesday." www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/7/...

UN experts say Israel carrying out ‘targeted starvation campaign’ in Gazawww.aljazeera.com Report says famine has spread throughout the enclave after nine months of war.

The earliest known surviving example of representational art, and visual storytelling, from Sulawesi, has been dated to least 51,200 years ago, while another painting, also from Sulawesi, has been dated to at least 48,000 years ago, 4000 years earlier than thought www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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We have our first Cat 5 #hurricane of the season and the earliest on record. Pressure at 948 mb and wind speeds near 160 mph. #Beryl

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Satellite Images Show Extensive Cultural Heritage Destruction in Artsakh. Caucasus Heritage Watch’s latest report on Armenian cultural sites found a 75% increase in destroyed sites since fall 2023. hyperallergic.com/927532/satel...

Satellite Images Show Extensive Cultural Heritage Destruction in Artsakhhyperallergic.com Caucasus Heritage Watch’s latest report on Armenian cultural sites targeted by the Azerbaijani regime found a 75% increase in destroyed sites since fall 2023.

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💥 Dès qu'on regarde la réalité en se basant sur des chiffres, ça ne marche plus trop bien, la banalisation de l'extrême-droite. #RN

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"And as Israel continues its siege on Gaza, preventing aid groups getting enough food into the enclave, parents say they have no choice but to watch their children starve to death." www.cnn.com/2024/06/25/m...

Children are dying of starvation in their parents’ arms as famine spreads through Gaza | CNNwww.cnn.com Younis lays disorientated on a green mattress in Nasser Hospital, in southern Gaza. His long brown eyelashes rest delicately on his pale sunken face, as he drifts in and out of sleep.

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Over 20 years ago, Andrew Stroehlein visited Xinjiang and saw how Chinese authorities were erasing Uyghur culture. This trend of cultural erasure has only intensified.

Xinjiang’s Red Flagswww.hrw.org

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“Why was my family eliminated? There was no reason…They turned my home into ash and vaporized the life from those people because they were Palestinian.” Ahmed Alnaouq on the Israeli airstrike that killed his entire extended family in Gaza: dawnmena.org/just-like-th...

Just Like That: Life and Death in Gaza - DAWNdawnmena.org They were asleep when some Israeli pilot dropped a bomb on our house. Just like that. My family wiped out.

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China changed village names 'to erase Uyghur culture'

China changed village names 'to erase Uyghur culture'www.bbc.com Activists claim removal of place names is the latest attempt to undermine Uyghur culture in China.

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Multiple images of a single supernova gravitationally lensed by a massive galaxy cluster will allow researchers to calculate the expansion rate of the universe. aasnova.org/2024/06/17/f... 🔭🧪

Featured Image: Seeing Triple - AAS Novaaasnova.org Multiple images of the supernova SN H0pe will allow researchers to calculate the expansion rate of the universe.

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Greek coastguard threw migrants overboard to their deaths, witnesses say

Greek coastguard threw migrants overboard to their deaths, witnesses saywww.bbc.com More than 40 people are alleged to have died as a result of Greek coastguard actions, BBC analysis reveals.

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I keep thinking about how many newscycles we had on Abu Ghraib and we're seeting Abu Ghraib level stuff coming out of Gaza basically hourly and it's getting normalized so fast

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The death toll from Israel’s attack on Nuseirat camp has risen to 274, as a UN special envoy slams Israel for ‘genocidal intent turned into action.’

Gaza live: Palestinian death toll passes 37,000 after brutal Israeli attack on Nuseiratwww.middleeasteye.net UN special envoy says Israel's actions show 'genocidal intent turned into action'

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At least 210 people have been killed and more than 400 injured as a result of the Israeli operation to rescue four hostages in central Gaza, the enclave's government media office said. Follow live updates: cnn.it/3Ky3Xsi

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Two UN organisations said more than 1 million people are “expected to face death and starvation” by mid-July.

Starvation already causing mass death and lasting harm in Gaza, agencies saywww.theguardian.com Extreme hunger already leaving huge toll, say food security reports, regardless of delays to possible declaration of famine

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Domicide. 32 percent of Gazan land has been razed completely by the Israeli army to create a buffer zone, Al Jazeera's SANAD agency found. 85% of Gazans are displaced & many have no homes to return to. www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/...

Israel has encroached on 32% of Gaza, Al Jazeera investigation showswww.aljazeera.com Gaza’s territory has been shrunk by a buffer zone that winds around its boundary and wide axis torn through its centre.