Ancient “Bed Burial” Enlightens Scholars Archeologists discover seventh-century teenager buried in bed (thespec.com) LONDON Archeologists excavating near Cambridge have stumbled upon a rare and mysterious find: The skeleton of a seventh-century teenager buried in an ornamental bed along with a gold-and-garnet cross, an iron knife and a purse full of glass beads. Experts say the grave is an example of an unusual Anglo-Saxon funerary practice of which very little is known. Just over a dozen of these “bed burials” have been found in Britain, and it’s one of only two in which a pectoral cross — meant to be worn over the chest — has been discovered. One archeologist said…

Party at Gobekli Tepe I would love to go back in time to visit Gobekli Tepe… ‘World’s oldest temple’ was a happenin’ place Ancient blades of volcanic rock hint that people came from far and wide 11,000 years ago Gobekli Tepe is in southern Turkey near the modern-day city of Urfa. It contains at least 20 stone rings (circles within a circle) that date back more than 11,000 years. T-shaped limestone blocks line the circles and reliefs are carved on them. Long ago, people would fill in the outer circle with debris before building a new circle within. By Owen Jarus (msnbc.com) Ancient blades made of volcanic rock that were…

The Antimatter Puzzle It continues to be one of the most puzzling questions in science – why is the universe made of matter and not equal amounts of matter and antimatter? (From ) HOT on the heels of results from Fermilab, in America, which reported last week on an esoteric phenomenon called charge-conjugation/parity (CP) violation involving equally esoteric subatomic particles known as D0-mesons, a second research group, the Daya Bay Collaboration of more than 40 institutions, mainly from China and America, has found a related result involving neutrinos. CP violation is an asymmetry between matter and antimatter and the experiment, based at a complex of nuclear reactors 50km (30 miles)…

Russia brings 30,000-year-old flower back from the dead One you’ve read M.J.’s new book you will know why this incredible news would be extremely interesting to the character’s in M.J.’s book… Russia regenerates 30,000-year-old flower (AP) MOSCOW – It was an Ice Age squirrel’s treasure chamber, a burrow containing fruit and seeds that had been stuck in the Siberian permafrost for over 30,000 years. From the fruit tissues, a team of Russian scientists managed to resurrect an entire plant in a pioneering experiment that paves the way for the revival of other species. The Silene stenophylla is the oldest plant ever to be regenerated, the researchers said, and it is…

Mars Quakes! Basically, what this new finding tells us is that the chances of microbial life being found on Mars are quite a bit higher now! - Marsquake! Scientists Find New Signs of Rumblings on the Red Planet By Michael D. Lemonick (TimeScience) When space probes first began taking closeup images of Mars in the early 1970s, the pictures revealed what appeared to be a long dead world. Ancient waterways were visible on the surface, but they had been dry for billions of years. Crater-topped volcanoes dotted the planet — some of them a mile or more higher than Everest — but they had stopped erupting eons ago. It all…