A new magic mushroom discovered in Africa Genetic analysis of a grassland fungus suggests key evolutionary splits in the Psilocybe lineage began on the continent.

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Arrow tips found in South Africa are the oldest evidence of poison use in hunting The discovery that small stone arrow tips were treated with plant poison 60,000 years ago means that ancient African hunters were capable of complex thinking.

Stone arrow tips from South Africa show humans used poison for hunting 60,000 years ago, far earlier than thought.

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Donald Trump poses a threat to civilization | Robert Reich The moral purpose of civilized society is to prevent the stronger from attacking the weaker. The US was founded on that principle

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@cschlebu.bsky.social and @uj-palaeo.bsky.social article about your Nature paper.

10,000-year-old genomes from southern Africa reshape our understanding of human evolution | Daily Maverick

It seems that southern Africa provided an ecological refuge where people adapted successfully for more than 200,000 years – without other hunter-gatherer groups coming in from elsewhere.

Study of cheetahs and leopards shows lead poisoning threatens wildlife and humans | Daily Maverick

In the first study of its kind, the researchers assessed lead concentrations in the tibias of 62 cheetah carcasses and 11 leopard carcasses. Lead poisoning has far-reaching impacts on humans and domestic animals, with implications for the ecosystem and the meat we consume.

When justice speaks the language of patriarchy, the law loses its moral voice

The judiciary and the legal profession carry immense cultural power. Judges and advocates are not only interpreters of law, they are custodians of the nation’s moral vocabulary. When they resort to chauvinistic metaphors or cultural relativism to explain away misogyny, they do more than offend; ...

I agree on that.

If she lived she clearly deserved to receiveit, but would she? I doubt it, the 3 men would still have. They called her "Rosy" instead of doctor, oh the examples are numerous of what she had to endure.

She deserved it, but 3 men? And only can win, I doubt it.

Would they have received it, if it was not for her groundbreaking work? Would she received it if she had lived. I doubt it, there can only be 3 winners.

What Rosalind Franklin truly contributed to the discovery of DNA’s structure Franklin was no victim in how the DNA double helix was solved. An overlooked letter and an unpublished news article, both written in 1953, reveal that she was an equal player.

Additional context on Rosalind Franklin - www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Her name should be acknowledged with the same prominence as Crick & Watson.

Would they have won without Franklin's groundbreaking work?

Again some are saying the Nobel prize is not given posthumously. That old argument, so tired of that re Franklin, would the 3 men have won if not for her work to begin with?

Two superbugs cause more than half the infections that kill newborns in Soweto

Over the past 10 years, researchers from the University of the Witwatersrand analysed small tissue samples of 1,586 children under five who died at public health facilities in Soweto. Results show that more than half of the deaths in newborns and about a third in infants were caused by just two ...

Gentle witness, fierce advocate: remembering Jane Goodall Her studies in Tanzania reshaped primatology and how we view ourselves, while her advocacy connected animal behaviour, culture, and conservation.

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What a great tragedy. Jane Goodall. Thank you for the tireless work.

Heavy metals measured in Black mamba scales Africa’s most feared snake can be used to identify pollution hotspots

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Today we have a Museum dedicated to her: The Story of Emily in Cornwall. Have a look at our website and Instagram.

True, a new Lancet study also shows how Africa lost years in childhood vaccination, and not so much due to antivaxx but access.

HELL-BENT ON EXCLUSION: The why behind the surge in Christian fundamentalist hate against transgender people

Two researchers explain the disinformation tactics used by Christian fundamentalist groups to attack transgender and gender-diverse people.

Two genes found to shed new light on breast cancer in Black women Genetic risk factors may account for up to 30% of all cases in African women.

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Stone tools from a cave on South Africa’s coast speak of life at the end of the Ice Age Stone tools from different sites suggest people long ago were connected over a huge region and shared ideas.

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Fossilised reptile colony provides evidence of earliest communal living Same-species skeletons in colony of burrows found in South Africa pushes origins of community

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Ancient protein from pre-human teeth reveals secrets of human evolutionary tree Researchers have extracted 2 million-year-old protein remains from ancient pre-human teeth to reveal biological sex and genetic variability.

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That will be pretty fast traveling to cover 133 light years by 2026....
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Another day of reminding everyone of Carl Sagan’s eerily accurate warning about the dangers of not being able to ask skeptical scientific questions to those in power or authority.

A lot of excellent research is being done in South Africa, along with other African countries about Sickle Cell Disease.

It was so well written, as always.