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These volunteers spent 40 days in a cave with no sunlight or way to tell time Montreal's Marina Lançon was one of 15 people who volunteered to spend 40 days in a French cave without any way to tell the time or communicate with the outside world — all in the name of science.  Social Sharing CBC Radio · Posted: Apr 27, 2021 5:44 PM ET | Last Updated: April 27 Marina Lançon, pictured in the centre with a blue bandana and gray sweater, emerges from the Lombrives Cave in France with 14 other people after 40 days underground.(Renata Brito/The Associated Press)

French scientists want to understand the effect of light and time deprivation on humans 11 March 2021 The entrance to the Lombrives cave systemBy Connexion journalist A group of volunteers is preparing to live in complete isolation deep in a cave in southwest France for 40 days as part of a wide-ranging study into human behaviour. The seven women and seven men taking part in the Deep Time project will survive in the depths of the cave system at Lombrives, Ariège, to study how humans manage and live together in completely unknown situations, and how the brain deals with time when there is no ...

Date Time Mongolian Archaeological Project Receives 2 Million Euro Arcadia Grant A new grant to the Department of Archaeology will support the documentation of thousands of threatened sites and construct an open access database in English, Mongolian and Russian. Archaeological sites in Mongolia face a range of threats, including climate change and looting. With funding from Arcadia, a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin, the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History is launching the Mongolian Archaeological Project: Surveying the Steppes (MAPSS). Investigators in M...