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**A Symbol of Immortality: Evidence of Honey in Bronze Jars Found in a Paestum Shrine Dating to 530–510 BCE**
"_Our multianalytical approach detected lipids, saccharide decomposition products, hexose sugars, and major royal jelly proteins supporting the hypothesis that the jars once also contained honey/honeycombs._"
Luciana da Costa Carvalho, Elisabete Pires, Kelly Domoney, Gabriel Zuchtriegel, and James S. O. McCullagh Journal of the American Chemical Society Article ASAP DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.1021/jacs.5c04888
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Science #Chemistry #Honey #Academia @science
🎙️ **Summer picks: Where did our attention spans go, and can we get them back?**
**Lying increases trust in science**
Hyde, B.V. Lying increases trust in science. Theor Soc (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11186-025-09635-1.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Ethics #Science #Experts #Trust #Misinformation #Lying #Society #Academia @science
🧬 **Genetic history of Scythia**
"_Using high-quality genomic data generated from 131 ancient individuals from Great Scythia and neighboring regions of the Bronze Age and the Iron Age, we established the genetic structure of the Scythians, revealing their diverse origin with major European Bronze Age ancestral components, and genetic traces of migration and invasions._"
Tatiana V. Andreeva et al., Genetic history of Scythia. Sci. Adv.11, eads8179 (2025). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.ads8179.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Science #History #Genetics #DNA #Scythians #BronzeAge #IronAge #Academia #Academics @science
🇫🇮 **Archaeogenetics reveals fine-scale genetic continuity and patterns of kinship and health in medieval Finland**
"_Using ancient genomic data, contemporary Finnish Biobank data, and identity-by-descent (IBD) analyses, we identified strong regional continuity between the medieval and modern Finnish populations, and evidence for mobility within Finland and between Finland and Scandinavia._"
Nordfors, U., Peltola, S., O’Sullivan, R.J., Valtueña, A.A., Lamnidis, T.C., Majander, K., Traverso, L., Krause, J., Salmela, E., Onkamo, P., Archaeogenetics reveals fine-scale genetic continuity and patterns of kinship and health in medieval Finland, iScience (2025), doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2025.113086.
#Ancient #DNA #Bioarchaeology #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Genetics #Science #Medieval #Finland #Scandinavia @science @archaeodons@a.gup.pe
📖 **Galileo’s Lost Star: Rare Book Breaks $1.5M at Auction**
"_Galileo’s rare first book on the 1604 supernova sold for $1.5 million at Christie’s, a stellar result for the scientist who changed how we see the heavens._"
🔗 https://www.antiquetrader.com/galileos-lost-star-rare-book-breaks-1-5m-at-auction.
#History #Science #HistSci #Book #Bookstodon @science@a.gup.pe @bookstodon
**The Ancient Machine That Measured Time With Water**
"_In the 3rd century BCE, in the city of Alexandria, a brilliant Greek inventor named Ctesibius created a water-powered timekeeping device, so precise it remained unmatched for the next 1,800 years, until the invention of the pendulum clock in 1656._"
#Video length: ten minutes and seventeen seconds.
**Further insights into maternal and paternal human histories in southern Iberia**
"_Genetic ancestry among Andalusians seems to be constituted by three foremost continental origins: European, African and Middle Eastern. The examined male group has revealed a noticeable proportion of individuals (over 45%) with a non-correspondence between maternal and paternal haplogroup origins, a signal of different population demographic histories linked to both sexes in the past._"
González-Barrio, M. et al. (2025) ‘Further insights into maternal and paternal human histories in southern Iberia’, Evolutionary Human Sciences, pp. 1–28. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/ehs.2025.10006.
#OpenAccess #OA #DOI #Science #Genetics #Genome #Haplogroups #Ancestry #Iberia #Academia #Academics
🔬 **This 300-page mirror life report has scientists terrified**
#Video length: twelve minutes and thirty-one seconds.
**Christiaan Huygens and the Scientific Secrets of Saturn**
"_Seventeenth-century science was so competitive that Christiaan Huygens used a cipher to conceal his Saturn observations when sharing them with interlocutors._"
🔗 https://daily.jstor.org/christiaan-huygens-and-the-scientific-secrets-of-saturn/.
🇪🇸 **Scientists find microplastics in semen and ovaries**
"_Spanish researchers have identified different types of plastics in seminal plasma and ovarian follicular fluid_"
📚 **See The 4 Books Scientific American Loved Reading In June**
**Unveiling the origins and genetic makeup of the “forgotten people”: A study of the Sarmatian-period population in the Carpathian Basin**
“_Our findings reveal minor East Asian ancestry in the Carpathian Basin (CB) Sarmatians, distinguishing them from other regional populations. Using F4 statistics, qpAdm, and identity-by-descent (IBD) analysis, we show that CB Sarmatians descended from Steppe Sarmatians originating in the Ural and Kazakhstan regions, with Romanian Sarmatians serving as a possible genetic bridge between the two groups._”
Schütz, Oszkár et al., (2025). Unveiling the origins and genetic makeup of the “forgotten people”: A study of the Sarmatian-period population in the Carpathian Basin. Cell. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2025.05.009.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Science #Archaeogenetics #Genetics #Roman #Migration #Academia #Academics @science
📖 **Newton's Principia: The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy by Newton**
"_Read or download for free_"
🔗 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76404.
#ProjectGutenberg #Read #IsaacNewton #Newton #Science #Physics #Ebook #Book #Bookstodon @bookstodon @science
#Image attribution: John Vanderbank, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portrait_of_Sir_Isaac_Newton_(4670220).jpg.
🧬 **Work begins to create artificial human DNA from scratch**
"_But critics fear the research opens the way for unscrupulous researchers seeking to create enhanced or modified humans._"
💻 **AI will make you a dumber writer, says science.**
🔗 https://lithub.com/ai-will-make-you-a-dumber-writer-says-science/.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLMS #Technology #Tech #Science #Research @ai @science
🔭 **Astronomy**
On this day in 1675 the Royal Observatory Greenwich was founded.
**A century of science history: the Museo Galileo in Florence celebrates its first 100 years with an exhibition**
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