It could take a while before the handshake comes back, if it ever does. Business conferences, however, are set to restart in the U.S. the moment health code allows. And despite uncertainty around when exactly that will be, convention organizers are holding out hope — and event space — for a possible return in the coming weeks. From a report: One…
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Mummified baboons may identify lost land of Punt, ancient Egypt’s trading partner
Ancient Egyptians got those baboons from somewhere. Source: https://www.livescience.com/baboon-mummies-lost-land-punt.html
Long-lost artefact from Great Pyramid found
Pieces of wood retrieved from the pyramid 100 years ago have turned up in a box at the University of Aberdeen. Despite its immense size, very few arte… Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/342160/long-lost-artefact-from-great-pyramid-found…
Lost artifact from Great Pyramid was just found in a cigar tin in Scotland
After a small piece of wood from the Great Pyramid was donated to a museum in Scotland, it vanished for decades. A curator found it hiding in plain sight. Source: https://www.livescience.com/missing-great-pyramid-relic-found.html
Want to find life on Mars? Look deep underground
A new study from researchers at Rutgers University suggests that the best place to look for evidence of life on Mars is deep underground, where geothermal heat melted subsurface ice. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/mars-life-search-subsurface-ice-melted-by-geothermal-heat…
Unseen footage of thylacine cub unearthed
Researchers have been scouring Australia’s archives for long-lost video clips of the extinct Tasmanian tiger. 2020 has been something of a bumper year… Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/341946/unseen-footage-of-thylacine-cub-unearthed…
CloudLinux To Invest More Than a Million Dollars a Year Into CentOS Clone
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: When Red Hat, CentOS’s Linux parent company, announced it was “shifting focus from CentOS Linux, the rebuild of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), to CentOS Stream, which tracks just ahead of a current RHEL release,” it lost a lot of friends. CentOS co-founder, Gregory Kurtzer, immediately announced he’d create his own RHEL clone…
Electoral College Certifies Biden’s Victory, As Trump Still Refuses To Concede
The Electoral College gave Joe Biden a majority of its votes Monday, confirming his victory in last month’s election in state-by-state voting that took on added importance this year because of President Donald Trump’s refusal to concede he lost. The Associated Press reports: California’s 55 electoral votes put Biden over the top, clearing the 270-vote mark that affirmed he will be…
‘Lost connection’ hampers Virgin Galactic’s test flight (Update)
A Virgin Galactic test flight Saturday ended prematurely as the spacecraft’s rocket motor failed to ignite and it then glided down safely to its landing site in southern New Mexico. Source: https://phys.org/news/2020-12-virgin-galactic-flight-mexico-site.html…
Drug Reverses Age-Related Mental Decline Within Days
The University of California San Francisco issued this glowing announcement of some new research: Just a few doses of an experimental drug can reverse age-related declines in memory and mental flexibility in mice, according to a new study by UC San Francisco scientists. The drug, called ISRIB, has already been shown in laboratory studies to restore memory function months after traumatic…