Two articles published in the journal “Nature” show various discoveries about the first human beings who lived in Siberia. Two teams of researchers led by Dr. Katerina Douka and Professor Zenobia Jacobs used different dating methods that suggest that Denisova Cave in Siberia have been occupied since at least 200,000 years ago by Denisovans but the earliest hominins may have lived there 300,000 years ago.
“Point of Light” is the 3rd episode of the 2nd season of the TV show “Star Trek: Discovery” and follows “New Eden”.
The investigation by the crew of the USS Discovery shows increasingly complex ramifications after Amanda Grayson (Mia Kirshner) arrives on the starship. The cosmic signals have been seen by someone among the Klingons as an omen and that adds fuel to the struggle for power.
The short story “Earthrise” by Lavie Tidhar was published for the first time in 2012.
Sandoval is an artist whose life is wrapped in a number of legends and rumors often impossible to verify. He gained a reputation as a rebel when he got rid of the node that allowed him to remain immersed in the Conversation and managed to erase the information available about him. It0s said that it was obsessed with the Earthrise image.
The novel “Annihilation” by Jeff VanderMeer was published for the first time in 2014. It won the Nebula and Shirley Jackson Awards for best novel of the year. It’s the first book of the Southern Reach trilogy.
A biologist, an anthropologist, a surveyor and a psychologist are the 12th expedition into Area X. After the dramatic results of the previous expeditions, the four scientists hope to finally get a success in understanding the transformations that occurred in that area and the others strange phenomena that happen and that changed members of previous expeditions as well.
The four women have the minimum knowledge of each other needed to the expedition, linked to their respective skills. During their exploration they discover what the biologist calls a tower that doesn’t rise into the sky but sinks into the ground. In their exploration they will be forced to face not only the weirdness of Area X but also their inner problems.
An article published in the journal “Scientific Reports” reports the discovery of two new specimens of Eretmorhipis carrolldongi, a marine reptile that lived about 250 million years ago, in the Early Triassic period, in today’s China. A team of researchers studied these new specimens with particular interest because of the previous ones one had its skull but it was in a poor state of conservation and the other one had no skull. The new specimens show that this reptile had similarities with modern platypuses, with a sort of bill of cartilage and receptors that allowed it to hunt based on touch.
