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Friday 12 June 2020 Hello Nature readers, Today we learn that the Universe’s coolest lab has created bizarre quantum matter in space, explore how healthy blood vessels might protect children from serious effects of COVID-19 and go on the hunt for the microbial ‘dark matter’ that has never been cultured in the lab. The International Space Station is home to the Cold Atom Lab — one of the coldest places in the known Universe. (NASA) Quantum matter in the coolest place in space Physicists have made a B

Oldest Mayan monument ever found A huge artificial plateau that is 1.4 kilometres long and 10–15 metres high has been discovered in Mexico. Archaeologists spotted the monumental construction from the air using lidar, a remote-sensing method that maps the ground using lasers. Dubbed Aguada Fénix, the extensive structure was built between 1000 and 800 BC, and precedes the peak of the Maya empire by more than a millennium. National Geographic | 7 min read Go deeper with the Nature News & Views article . Reference: Nature paper

Scientists ‘set the clock’ for ancient Jerusalem, prove who built Temple bridge New cutting-edge C14 method provides ‘extreme accuracy’ in placing monumental structures in precise historical setting; shows Wilson’s Arch begun in Herod’s time, built in 2 phases By Amanda Borschel-Dan 3 June 2020, 9:00 pm 2 1,675 shares Excavations at Wilson's Arch, under the Jerusalem Old City. (Assaf Peretz/Israel Antiquities Authority) Tehillah Liberman at an unfinished, 2nd-century CE Roman theater. (Yaniv Berman/Israel Antiquities Authority) Dr. Elisabetta Boaretto, Head of the Weizmann Institute of Science’s D-REAMS Radiocarbon Dating Laboratory (courtesy) Israel Antiquities Authority excavation director Dr. Joe Uziel at the excava