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INABE Concert Sparks Debate Over Ashaninka Song Rights

Gael Chobiavante, a five-year-old, will make his stage debut at the concert in Lima.

elcomercio.pe · 21 Jul

Vermeer’s Patron: Woman Initiated ‘Girl with a Pearl’ Purchase

The Rijksmuseum has adjusted 250 text labels and added 40 works by female artists to its collection as part of its initiative to achieve gender balance.

nrc.nl · 21 Jul

Monkeys and Children Share Geometric Understanding

Researchers included 79 adults from the Tsimane people of Bolivia, who have limited formal education, to separate the effects of age and cultural experience.

20minutos.es · 20 Jul

Pangolin DNA Links Local Markets to Global Trafficking

Researchers built a DNA database using samples from 711 pangolins, including museum specimens and seized parts, to trace their origins and map trafficking routes.

news.mongabay.com · 21 Jul

Chinese Residential Names Reflect Deep-Rooted Spatial Metaphors

The study examined a corpus of 1,672 residential names using the “[X + Li]” construction and 228 names using “[X + Yuan]”.

frontiersin.org · 21 Jul

Ancient Gecko Preserved in Amber Reveals Male Anatomy

The amber gecko measured between 1.6 and 2.2 centimeters from snout to vent, making it comparable in size to some of the smallest geckos alive today.

sci.news · 20 Jul

New Mask-Faced Monkey Species Discovered in Congo

Colobus congoensis is geographically separated from Colobus satanas by a distance exceeding 1200 kilometers.

perfil.com · 20 Jul

Louis Kahn Sought to Blend City and Home

Kahn worked on residential projects between 1930 and 1952, a period crucial for understanding his later creative development.

expansion.com · 20 Jul

Tanizaki’s Influence on One Man’s Life in Japan

Starr’s translation of In Praise of Shadows was published in 2019, and featured a foreword by architect Kuma Kengo.

nippon.com · 20 Jul

Generative AI Echoes Historical Shifts in Art & Authorship

The paper argues that the “Benjaminian aura” doesn’t disappear with generative AI, but instead concentrates on the system producing the work.

arxiv.org · 21 Jul

Portugal’s AMALIA Model Shows Promise, and Limits, as a Research Tool

AMALIA, a 9 billion parameter model, achieved coding agreement within six points of open models ranging from 8 to 13 times its size.

arxiv.org · 21 Jul

New Monkey Species Discovered in Congo Rainforest

Researchers spent approximately half a decade conducting observations, collecting samples, and performing DNA and bone analysis to confirm the new species.

npr.org · 20 Jul

Baroque Opera Performance Retells Orpheus Myth in Belgium

The performance incorporated pieces from the first surviving opera, L’Euridice by Jacopo Peri.

novinky.cz · 21 Jul

Ruth Asawa: Japanese-American Artist Shaped by Internment

Ruth Asawa’s biography, Ruth Asawa: Touching on Everything, was published this year, coinciding with the 100th anniversary of her birth.

mainichi.jp · 21 Jul

Guerrero Archaeologists Record Sites Surviving Conquest

The Camutla site contains 39 identified structures distributed across eight hectares.

aristeguinoticias.com · 21 Jul

Digital Stories Link Migrants to Cities & Wellbeing in China

The study’s core scales demonstrated acceptable internal consistency, with Cronbach’s Alpha values ranging from 0.813 to 0.906.

frontiersin.org · 21 Jul

Argentine Artists Explore Space & Hidden Images

Raquel Forner’s painting “El regreso de los astronautas” (1969) was acquired by the NASA Art Program and is displayed at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington DC.

lanacion.com.ar · 20 Jul

Jakarta’s Villages Face Displacement Amid Heritage Projects

Between 2013 and 2018, Jakarta saw increased evictions of urban villages, prompting the growth of grassroots heritage movements.

doi.org · 21 Jul

New Monkey Species Discovered in Congo After Years Hidden

Researchers collected 114 detections of the new monkey species between 2018 and 2022, including 89 visual observations, primarily within Lomami National Park.

oeco.org.br · 20 Jul

UK Thesis Traces Shifting Pregnancy Risk Communication

The research spans a 77-year period, from 1948 to 2025, analyzing shifts in how pregnancy risks were discussed in the UK.

doi.org · 21 Jul

NJ Meteorite Contains Life’s Building Blocks

The Hillsborough meteorite contains 1.76 percent carbon and a measurable amount of nitrogen, along with complex organic molecules.

t3n.de · 21 Jul

Early Collider Fueled Italy-France Science Pact

The first electron-positron collider was constructed in Italy in 1960, marking a pivotal moment in international physics collaboration.

arxiv.org · 21 Jul

Odysseus Worshipped as a God for 1000 Years

Archaeologists discovered bronze coins depicting Odysseus with a beard, aligning with depictions in Greek and Roman art, at the site of the potential sanctuary.

in.gr · 21 Jul

North Macedonia’s Professor Races to Save Vanishing Crops

The researchers assembled a collection of more than 2,200 bean samples, including varieties displaying an extraordinary range of shapes and colors like purple, black, brown, beige, and bright pink.

balkaninsight.com · 20 Jul

New Tree Species Discovered in Colombian Reserve

The Sarcaulus paujilensis is the sixth species recognized within the Sarcaulus genus in the Neotropics.

es.mongabay.com · 20 Jul

Korean Foodways on Display: From Rice Seeds to Modern Art

The exhibition features 684 artifacts and artworks, including one national treasure and five treasures of Korea.

hankyung.com · 21 Jul

Rediscovered Noir Author Lived in Peru

Charles Williams began publishing his novels, including his debut “Hill Girl”, while living at Calle Torre Tagle 165 in Miraflores, Peru, in 1951.

elcomercio.pe · 20 Jul

T. Rex’s ‘Great-Uncle’ Unearthed in British Columbia

The Gorgosaurus fossil discovery expands the known range of this tyrannosaur species to cover approximately 198,000 square kilometers, from northern British Columbia down to northern Montana.

theglobeandmail.com · 20 Jul

Ancient Norwegians Stocked Lakes with Trout 7,000 Years Ago

Lake Tesse once yielded 9 tonnes of brown trout annually before being altered for hydropower in the 1940s.

newscientist.com · 19 Jul

Ancient DNA Clears Tuscan Noble of Poisoning

Researchers identified a novel strain of P. falciparum with two unique mutations in Giovanni de Medici’s DNA, expanding knowledge of malaria’s historical diversity.

nexojornal.com.br · 19 Jul

First Temple Destruction: Charred Beams Unearthed in Jerusalem

The discovered wooden beams contain a significant number of growth rings, potentially allowing archaeologists to date finds with a resolution of as little as ten years.

jpost.com · 20 Jul

Ecuadorian Literature Embraces Change and Diversity

Ecuador has seen a surge in literary voices, with over one million migrants contributing to a diverse range of perspectives and experiences reflected in contemporary works.

elcomercio.pe · 20 Jul

Bayeux Tapestry Leaves France for First Time in 950 Years

The Bayeux Tapestry is over 68 meters long and 50 centimeters high, though extensions added later bring it to 70 centimeters in places.

adevarul.ro · 19 Jul

AI Learns to Decode Arabic Metaphor with Cultural Context

CAMMAR correctly identified metaphors 82.6% of the time when comparing figurative and literal uses of the same Arabic word.

arxiv.org · 20 Jul

Egyptian Princesses Were Skilled Archers 4,000 Years Ago

Princess Itaweret, between 20 and 34 years old, survived broken ribs and foot fractures, yet her skeleton demonstrates she was a skilled archer.

goodnewsnetwork.org · 19 Jul

Vietnamese Minority Languages Get First NLP Dataset

The CKTN corpus includes 24 million subword tokens across Cham, Khmer, and Tay-Nung, providing a foundation for NLP research on these underrepresented languages.

arxiv.org · 20 Jul

Nolan Film Spurs Renewed Interest in Homer’s Odyssey

The Emily Wilson translation of The Odyssey, referenced by Nolan, experienced a notable increase in sales last year, according to its publisher, W.W. Norton.

tovima.gr · 20 Jul

Ancient Toolmakers Navigated for Best Stone

Researchers matched the chemical composition of basalt tools to sources within approximately one kilometer of the Gesher Benot Ya'akov site.

jpost.com · 19 Jul

Polish Forager Uncovers WWII Aircraft Wreck

The wreckage included a pipe potentially connected to a Merlin engine, a type used in several Allied aircraft during WWII.

polsatnews.pl · 20 Jul

Cannibalism in Spain Challenges Historical Accounts

William Arens published The Man-Eating Myth in 1981, arguing that cultural cannibalism, driven by ritual or warfare, had never occurred.

lemonde.fr · 20 Jul

Ancient Astronomers Saw a Brighter Star. Now Scientists May Know Why.

Theta Eridani was listed among the brightest stars by Ptolemy around 137 AD, and also observed by Hipparchus as early as the 2nd century BC.

derstandard.at · 20 Jul

Human Evolution: Growth Spurt Happened Later Than Thought

The study analyzed data from 386 hominin specimens, representing 21 distinct taxonomic groups, to reach its conclusions about human growth patterns.

xataka.com · 19 Jul

Grube Messel: Unearthing Eocene Life in Germany

The Grube Messel has yielded over 1400 distinct species of fossilized organisms, including more than 70 specimens of early horses like Propalaeotherium and Eurohippus.

faz.net · 19 Jul

2,600-Year-Old Assyrian King Stele Unearthed in Iraq

The discovered stele measures two meters high and 1.55 meters wide, bearing a large, high-relief sculpture of Ashurbanipal.

jpost.com · 19 Jul

Taiwan's Tallest Tree Mapped Using Laser Technology

The tallest tree identified, a Taiwania cryptomerioides, measures 84.10 meters in height.

lemonde.fr · 20 Jul

African Entrepreneurs Thrive by Bridging Worlds

The ten startups observed were developing digital solutions in under-resourced communities for over two years, allowing researchers to identify consistent innovation patterns.

theconversation.com · 20 Jul

Greek Fire: Byzantium’s Ancient Incendiary Weapon

Byzantine princess Anna Komnene recorded that the siphons on Byzantine ships in 1099 had gilded heads of wild animals, like lions, through which the Greek fire was emitted.

theconversation.com · 19 Jul

Kyrgyzstan & India Launch Joint Epic Study

The Hindi translation of the Manas epic includes all three parts of the trilogy, Manas, Semetey, and Seytek.

24.kg · 20 Jul

Pristine Meteorite Reveals Ancient Asteroid Chemistry

Researchers identified sodium-carbonate salts within the Hillsborough meteorite, marking the first time these have been found in a CM carbonaceous chondrite meteorite.

astrobiology.com · 19 Jul

AI Echoes Forgotten Memory Research

Bartlett’s 1932 experiment involved participants retelling a Native American folk tale, after which they changed details that felt foreign, simplifying them or replacing them with elements familiar to their own experiences.

andriantriputra.medium.com · 20 Jul

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