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9 August 2022 Climate change
Good news on the global warming front. You won't have heard much about this in mainstream media sources. Coral cover on the Great Barrier Reef

Mammoths and Footprints

9 August 2022 Archaeology
William sent in the link https://www.yahoo.com/news/mammoth-bones-ghost-footprints-add-170000900.html ... mammoth bone is combined with human footprints but the two things are thousands of years apart. However, the

Philippines Species Variation

6 August 2022 Geology
This is an interesting piece of research but it is also coloured by mainstream assumptions based on theory. For example, the fact that in the

Hydrothermal Field

6 August 2022 Geology
An off axis high temperature hydrothermal vent field has been discovered on the East Pacific Rise - see https://phys.org/news/2022-07-off-axis-high-temperature-hydrothermal-field-east.html ... It consists of at least

Black Holes without life

2 August 2022 Astronomy
At https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/07/220718122232.htm ... astromoners, or some of them, are saying the Large Magellanic  Cloud has a defunct black hole as it doesn't appear to show

K2

16 July 2022 Astronomy
A bright comet in the inner solar system - and it swinging past Earth at the moment. Get out your binoculars. See https://phys.org/news/2022-07-k2-brightest-comet-solar-earth.html ... for

Arthur's Stone

16 July 2022 Archaeology
At https://phys.org/news/2022-07-arthur-stone-year-old-monument-king.html ... Arthur's Stone is a 5000 + years old Neolithic chambered tomb in Herefordshire. It is little more than a few stones sticking

Native American Connection

16 July 2022 Archaeology
At https://phys.org/news/2022-07-dna-ancient-population-southern-china.html ... human fossils from the Late Pleistocene in southern China have come up with a surprise. The genetics is published in Current Biology,

Asteroid Bennu and Regolith

12 July 2022 Astronomy
William sent in the link https://finance.yahoo.com/news/nasas-osiris-rex-bennu-finding-plastic-ball-pits-184718806.html ... NASAs Osiris Rex mission landed on the surface of asteroid Bennu in order to bring a sample back

Comets and organic molecules

11 July 2022 Astronomy
At https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/07/220705112248.html  ... ESAs Rosetta Mission collected date from Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, between 2014 and 2016. Some of the data sent back, especially the dust samples,

Starfish Prime Geomagnetic Storm

11 July 2022 Electromagnetism
At https://spaceweather.com of July 10th 2022. Back in 1962, the US military deployed a thermonuclear warhead 250 miles above the Pacific Ocean. It is known

Nu Cho ga

2 July 2022 Catastrophism
Sent in by William - https://www.yahoo.com/news/near-perfect-30-000-old-172649386.html ... found by miners in the Yukon Klondike, a 30,000 year old baby woolly mammoth. It still has intact

Hunga Tonga Explosion

2 July 2022 Geology
The explosive eruption of the Hunga Tonga submarine volcano in January 2022 was usual in that it involved shooting a large amount of seawater into

Tenoumer

2 July 2022 Catastrophism
The Tenoumer Crater is situated in the desert of Mauritania. It is 1.9 km wide and the bottom of the crater is covered in a

Canterbury, Norfolk, Cirencester, and the Mull of Kintyre

1 July 2022 Archaeology
At https://phys.org/news/2022-06-canterbury-suburbs-home-britain-earliest.html ... archaeological excavations on the outskirts of Canterbury confirm the presence of early humans in Britain between 560,000 and 620,000 years ago. The

A Brief History of Physics (or some of it)

1 July 2022 Physics
At https://www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2022/05/13/energy-mass-and-light/ ... an interesting piece by Matthew Hufner on science. He claims it is on the brink of a paradigm shift - with a

Stretching the Crust

27 June 2022 Geology
Sent in by Gary - https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-10945953/ ... and seems to complement the earlier post on David' Pratt's article from 2000. The  Paleogene comprises the Paleocene,

Issues with Plate Tectonics

24 June 2022 Geology
At https://www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2022/06/08/serious-issues-with-plate-tectonics/ ... concerns David Pratt's misgivings which he published in 2000. There are, apparently, multiple problems with the theory of Plate Tectonics and seafloor

Weird Sun

20 June 2022 Electromagnetism
At https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2022/06/19/the-sun-is-being-weird-it-could-be-because-were-looking-at-it-all-wrong/ ... which concerns the current solar cycle, 25, and its unexpected activity. Solar physicists got it wrong and so did global warming sceptics.

Don Scott on Dark Matter

19 June 2022 Electromagnetism
See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWW_mtihc1Q ...and you can now buy Don Scott's book from SIS.