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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 529

Malcolm Ritter

This undated photo provided by Ciprian Ardelean in July 2020 shows a stone tool found below the Last Glacial Maximum layer from a cave in Zacatecas, central Mexico. Artifacts from the cave suggest people were living in North America much earlier than most scientists think. (Ciprian Ardelean via AP)
July 22, 2020, 6:59 pm
Stone tools suggest human presence in North America over 25,000 years ago
Previously, widely accepted timeline for earliest archaeological sites on continent was 15,000-17,000 years ago
By Malcolm Ritter
This electron microscope image provided shows part of a Neanderthal cord from Abri du Maras, France. (M-H. Moncel via AP)
April 13, 2020, 2:55 am
Oldest known string upends assumptions on Neanderthal intelligence
Archaeologists discover 40-50,000-year-old cord in France, suggesting ancient hominids had some understanding of numbers, use of tree fibers
By Malcolm Ritter
In this photo provided by Brett Seidl, Jonathon Seidl sits in his home office in Dallas on March 18, 2020 (Brett Seidl via AP)
March 25, 2020, 10:07 am
They already had an anxiety disorder. Then came a pandemic
For some conditions, health officials’ recommendations can appear to feed the problem with advice to avoid crowds and to wash hands frequently
By Malcolm Ritter
Professor Russell Ciochon holds a cast of a Homo erectus skull at his lab in Iowa City, 2019. (Tim Schoon/University of Iowa via AP)
December 19, 2019, 10:40 am
Homo erectus may have been wiped out by climate change, scientists say
Researchers date youngest known remains of ancestor of our species; fresh estimate puts them at 108,000 to 117,000 years old; may have died when woodland became rain forest
By Malcolm Ritter
Nobel Assembly members (L-R) Patrik Ernfors, Anna Wedell and Randall Johnson sit in front of a screen displaying the winners of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (L-R) Gregg Semenza, Peter Ratcliffe and William Kaelin after their names were announced during a press conference at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, on October 7, 2019. (Jonathan NACKSTRAND / AFP)
October 8, 2019, 5:06 am
Trio wins Nobel Prize in Medicine for showing how cells sense low oxygen
Findings by American and British scientists being used to develop new treatments for anemia, cancer and other diseases
By Malcolm Ritter and Maria Cheng
This image provided by the University of Tuebingen in Germany shows the Apidima 1 partial cranium fossil, right, with a piece of rock still attached, and its digital reconstruction from a posterior view, middle, and a side view, left. The rounded shape of the Apidima 1 cranium is a unique feature of modern humans and contrasts sharply with Neanderthals and their ancestors. (Katerina Harvati/University of Tuebingen via AP)
July 11, 2019, 10:05 am
Predating Israeli find, earliest sign of man out of Africa said found in Greece
Chunk of skull thought to be 210,000 years old, making it at least 16,000 years older than jawbone found in Israel; some scientists not convinced fossil’s reported age is correct
By Malcolm Ritter
Pigs at a farm in Goudelin, western France, on February 13, 2019. (Damien Meyer/AFP)
April 17, 2019, 9:45 pm
In breakthrough, scientists revive some brain activity of slaughtered pigs
Researchers stress that procedure did not restore ability to think or feel, but findings nonetheless raises questions about brain death
By Malcolm Ritter
Callao Cave on Luzon Island of the Philippines, where the fossils of Homo luzonensis were discovered. (Callao Cave Archaeology Project via AP)
April 11, 2019, 4:57 pm
Pre-historic bones reveal extinct homo sapiens cousin
67,000-year-old bones and teeth come from previously unknown member of ‘Homo’ branch of the family tree
By Malcolm Ritter
This undated photo provided by Craig Foster in September 2018 shows a drawing made with ochre pigment on silcrete stone, found in the Blombos Cave east of Cape Town, South Africa. (Craig Foster via AP)
September 12, 2018, 10:22 pm
#Ancient? Crisscrossed lines called world’s oldest drawing
Researchers say 73,000-year-old ‘hashtag’ discovered in South African cave predates other early sketches by at least 30,000 years
By Malcolm Ritter
In this undated photo provided by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, cloned monkeys Zhong Zhong and Hua Hua sit together with a fabric toy. (Sun Qiang and Poo Muming/Chinese Academy of Sciences via AP)
January 25, 2018, 3:37 am
Researchers clone monkeys, but humans still seen as double trouble
Chinese scientists say procedure creating identical macaques will be useful for lab experiments, though prospects of cloning people still regarded as beyond the pale
By Malcolm Ritter
In this November 12, 2008 file photo, a baby cries in its bed in a hospital in Bremen, northern Germany. (AP Photo/Joerg Sarbach)
October 24, 2017, 7:33 am
Waaah: Crying babies push same ‘buttons’ in mothers’ brains
Israeli moms and babies take part in international study looking at maternal response to crying across cultures
By Malcolm Ritter
In this image released by the Saudi Press Agency (SPA), hundreds of thousands of Muslim pilgrims make their way to cast stones at a pillar symbolizing the stoning of Satan in a ritual called "Jamarat," the last rite of the annual hajj, on the first day of Eid al-Adha, in Mina on the outskirts of the holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Thursday, Sept. 24, 2015. (Saudi Press Agency via AP)
September 25, 2015, 12:50 am
In a big crowd, as at the hajj, danger can come on quickly
People in overly dense crowds ‘don’t die because they panic. They panic because they are dying,’ says expert
By Malcolm Ritter
Scientist Shuji Nakamura, a Japanese-born American professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, demonstrates LED lights during a news conference, Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2014, in Santa Barbara, Calif. Nakamura and two Japanese scientists won the Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for inventing blue light-emitting diodes, a breakthrough that has spurred the development of LED technology to light up homes, computer screens and smartphones worldwide. (photo credit: AP/Jae C. Hong)
October 7, 2014, 11:13 pm
LED there be light: 3 share Nobel for blue diode
Scientists honored for enabling white light that’s far more efficient than incandescent or fluorescent bulbs
By Malcolm Ritter and Karl Ritter
Scientists, from left, Clem Pryke, Jamie Bock, Chao-Lin Kuo and John Kovac smile during a news conference at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass., Monday, March 17, 2014, regarding their new findings on the early expansion of the universe. Scientists say that the universe was born almost 14 billion years ago, exploding into existence in an event called the Big Bang. Now these researchers say they’ve spotted evidence that a split-second later, the expansion of the cosmos got a powerful-jump start. Experts called the discovery a major advance if confirmed. (photo credit: AP Photo/Elise Amendola)
March 18, 2014, 1:34 am
Scientists hail a first glimpse of ‘the beginning of time’
Split-second after Big Bang, 14 billion years ago, new evidence points to an astonishing rapid growth spurt at the start of the universe
By Malcolm Ritter
A preservation lab in a hospital used for stem cell research (Photo credit: Margalit Slovin/Flash90)
May 16, 2013, 2:27 am
Stem cells recovered from cloned human embryos
New find ‘one landmark step in a very long journey’ toward creating DNA-matched transplant tissue, says expert
By Malcolm Ritter
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