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Dominican Republic: XXXI International Congress of Caribbean Archaeology to be Hosted! (13.7.2026)

As part of the academic agenda, there will also be book presentations, audiovisual screenings, specialized visits to museums, a scientific day at the León Centre in Santiago de los Caballeros (north of the country), and an academic event at the Academy of Sciences of the Dominican Republic (Santo Domingo).

An excursion to the archaeological sites of the Cabo Samaná Natural Monument (northeast) will also be carried out with the purpose of “showing participants part of the Dominican archaeological and cultural heritage.”

The programme will feature the participation of researchers affiliated with “renowned” international academic institutions, including Harvard, Copenhagen, Yale, Cambridge, and Leiden universities, as well as the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and the National Centre for Scientific Research of France. In addition to universities and scientific centres from Puerto Rico, Cuba, Panama, Colombia, and other countries in the region.

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Does the football-field-sized Kamo'oalewa hold a shocking secret about the moon?

China: Tianwen-2 Reaches Within 20-Kilometres & Photographs Quasi-Moon “Kamo’oalewa”! (9.7.2026)

This is also what makes the above photograph truly valuable and remarkable. It transformed a celestial body, previously only present in orbital calculations and distant (small) telescopic spots, for the first time into an object with a real shape, scale, and surface.

The Earth did not suddenly have a “new” real moon – but it does have a curious small rock beside it that has accompanied it in a tracking dance for nearly a century, and may continue to accompany the Earth for many more centuries to come.

Sometimes, human understanding creates all kinds of mysteries about the universe. This may not be a second moon – but it could be a long-lost fragment of the actual moon left to accompany the Earth – albeit at a distance.

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Wow Signal 1977

Email: What Was the 1977 “Wow Signal”? (4.7.2026)

The signal had travelled around 220 light-years – meaning its journey began in the year 1757 (a reply would take a similar length of time – suggesting an all-round trip of 440 light-years). To arrive at earth in such a powerful state means that its source technology would have to be extraordinarily powerful whilst boosting the signal as it traversed interstellar space. If it was the product of natural phenomena, then it was a process that scientists did not yet understand at the time. However, many assume this signal to be artificial in nature, and deliberate in intent – as it was designed to reach earth and to be received and understood by those on earth. As technology as improved immeasurably, this frequency has been observed and re-observed – with nothing found. 

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Life reconstruction of the Antarctic-sauropod. Credit: Andrew McAfee Carnegie Museum of Natural History

UK: Antarctica’s First Dinosaur Fossil Confirmed from 1985 British Antarctic expedition! (29.6.2026)

Dr Mark Evans, palaeontologist and manager of the geological collections and labs at BAS, said: “This fossil was found by Dr Mike Thomson, one of the true pioneers of Antarctic geology. His work helps us date all fossil finds across the Antarctic Peninsula today. When I first spotted this bone in our collections a few years ago, I suspected it was a dinosaur. After looking at it properly, I thought it was probably a titanosaur tail vertebra. Looking back at Mike’s notebooks, he knew it was a large reptile so it’s very special to confirm his find 40 years later.” 

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A screenshot from the Nature website shows the article titled "Optical fiber gripper for high-performance 3D micromanipulation".

China: Scientists Transform Fibre-Optics into “Mini Dexterous Hand”!

The study, published in Nature, introduced a three-dimensional optical fibre gripper that can manipulate opaque particles, irregular micromechanical components and diverse single-cell types. By controlling light input, the microgripper can open, close and adjust its gripping force. Experiments showed it can generate forces more than 100,000 times greater than conventional optical tweezers, enabling high-precision manipulation, microstructure assembly and microscale sampling.

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Dad Waving in Torbay!

UK: Remembering the “White Wizard” of Torbay! (14.6.2026)

I think that if religions gave-up their ridiculous claims to exclusivity – then the method of “looking within” could become a legitimate part of understanding the material world (albeit “subjectively”) and take its place alongside “objective” science. As matters stand, religious development tends to be unregulated and more or less ad hoc in its ability to produce legitimately transcendent beings. Such a being would declare the path he followed to be obsolete as he emerges thoroughly enlightened. Today, religions make stupid claims of non-existent (exclusive) knowledge – and limit their practitioners to religious dogma. It is for this reason of general ignorance and their siding with capitalism that Marxist-Leninism has a bleak view of religions in general. If religions truly abandoned the physical world they inhabit – then capitalism would be left firmly behind. Greed cannot be encouraged at source when transcendence demands a complete break with all fetters that would bind the practitioner to the mundane. The truly transcendent amongst us quietly disentangle their minds from the tortures of the physical world and humbly “ascend”. They do not do it for fame, money, or recognition. Indeed, for us mere mortals, we will be lucky if we receive an emancipating wave from them!

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