The leaning tower of San Francisco sinking faster than previously known.

A new formulation...' perhaps faster than previously known'...  What an ambiguous way to say this.


The leaning tower of San Francisco sinking faster than previously known.


FTA: ... "The luxury high-rise has sunk about 16 inches and is also tilting. Engineers have estimated the building is still sinking at a rate of about 1-inch per year."

Greek and Chinese Trade: "This is far earlier than we formerly thought."

Here is an interesting link

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The DNA evidence comes from remains from sites in the Xinjian province dating to the time period of the first emperor. They show that Chinese and Europeans were likely encountering each other at that early date. “We now have evidence that close contact existed between the first emperor’s China and the west before the formal opening of the Silk Road. This is far earlier than we formerly thought,” says Li Xiuzhen, Senior Archaeologist at the museum that houses the terra cotta warriors. “We now think the Terra cotta Army, the acrobats and the bronze sculptures found on site, have been inspired by ancient Greek sculptures and art.”

... though the Silk Road between China and Europe was formally established in the 3rd century A.D., Chinese accounts claim Roman traders arrived well before that. As she points out, during the rule of the First Emperor of Rome, Romans were already wearing Chinese silk.


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Features on the Moon are Younger TPT

From this article:

Impact! New Moon Craters Are Appearing Faster Than Thought

These new findings also suggest that a number of young features on the moon's surface, such as recent volcanic deposits, "may in fact be even a bit younger than previously thought," Speyerer said.

Iinsects (bees) have more complex brains TPT

Bees like Sugar and can figure out how to get it.

[They]... are incredibly intelligent, despite having brains the size of a sesame seed.

A-final-blow-to-myth-of-how-people-arrived-in-the-Americas

From the Christian Science Monitor

FTA: For decades, archaeologists thought they knew how the story went: Humans migrated from Siberia to Alaska over the Bering land bridge during the last Ice Age, 

New research published in Nature and
 
Evidence from Bison Biology in PNAS. 

Regarding the ice-free corridor after the last ice age FTA:

 "...we both also agree that the first hard [archaeological] evidence in the corridor when it finally opens is post-Clovis in age, and likely from people moving north and not south."

And relatively rare for stories like this; no use of the terms 'Than Previously thought' or 'more research is needed'.

"These results were a great surprise to us,"

FTA:
"Native Americans may have a more complicated heritage than previously believed."

 Nearly one-third of Native American genes come from west Eurasian people linked to the Middle East and Europe, rather than entirely from East Asians as previously thought, according to a newly sequenced genome.

From National Geographic

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Willerslev believes the discovery provides simpler and more likely explanations to long-standing controversies related to the peopling of the Americas.

News report based on research published in Nature   505,p87–91 (02 January 2014) doi:10.1038/nature12736

These forests are actually much more interesting and functionally diverse TPT,

'Rule-breaker' forests in Andes and Amazon revealed by remote spectral sensing

June 27, 2016

 

It turns out that forests in the Andean and western Amazonian regions of South America break long-understood rules about how ecosystems are put together

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2016-06-rule-breaker-forests-andes-amazon-revealed.html#jCp

FTA: It turns out that forests in the Andean and western Amazonian regions of South America break long-understood rules about how ecosystems are put together...

These forests are actually much more interesting and functionally diverse TPT....

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2016-06-rule-breaker-forests-andes-amazon-revealed.html#jCp

More literate TPT

link

Using computer algorithms to analyze handwriting, researchers discover citizens of ancient Judah were much more literate than previously thought.

What if what you know isn't so...

FTA:  General relativity underpins our understanding of gravity: everything from the age of the stars in the universe, to the GPS signals we use to find out way around, is based on Einstein's equations

....

'If general relativity breaks down, it would throw everything upside down,' said co-author Saran Tunyasuvunakool, also a PhD student from DAMTP .

'It would no longer have any predictive power - it could no longer be considered as a standalone theory to explain the universe.'

If Einstein is proven wrong, an alternative way of explaining the universe would then need to be found.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3453739/A-five-dimensional-black-hole-break-theory-relativity-Simulation-suggests-strange-rings-defy-physics-exist.html#ixzz40cUIW84U
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More clichéd than previously thought

Another take on the phrase "Than Previously thought"

FTA:  A lesser known cliché in journalism, especially science reporting, is the construction than previously thought. It doesn’t always take that precise form – sometimes it’s than originally thought, or than previously believed, or than scientists/anyone previously thought, or just than thought – but that’s the general structure.