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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.

Fossil Fuel Strikes Again

18 June 2022 Physics
Fossil fuels are used to  make all kinds of things from mobile phones to medicines, plastics, tents, clothes and synthetic fibres, amongst a lot of

La Nina weather patterns

18 June 2022 Climate change
William sent in the link to https://www.yahoo.com/news/stubborn-la-ni-looks-may-211430695.html ... La Nina is still lurking around as we enter the third year in a role. However, no

Wendover HS2

18 June 2022 Archaeology
Kevin sent in the link to https://www.heritagedaily.com/2022/06/discovery-of-anglo-anglo-saxon-burials-of-national-significance/143860 ... archaeological investigations along the line of the high speed train route, HS2, have beamed in on a

Walrus Ivory

18 June 2022 Archaeology
An excavation in what was Kiev, now Kyiv, in the Ukraine, came across some interesting Viking period artifacts. The city began life as a sort

Blue Blobs and the Meteorite that upsets the applecart

18 June 2022 Astronomy
At https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/06/220616194716.htm ... astronomers have identified five examples of a new class of stellar system. They are not  quite galaxies and only exist in isolation.

Gobekli Tepe Tourism

14 June 2022 Archaeology
At https://phys.org/news/2022-06-turkish-hilltop-civilisation-began.html ... the name of Gobekli Tepe, in Turkish, has the meaning of 'potbelly hill', and is one of the most important archaeological sites

Free Floating Black Holes

13 June 2022 Astronomy
This story is at https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/06/220610120222.htm ... black holes, by their nature, are invisible, unless they are surrounded by an accretion disc, we are told. Astronomers

Amino Acids Ryugu

13 June 2022 Astronomy
At https://phys.org/news/2022-06-asteroid-samples-clues-life-japan.html ... the Japanese mission to the asteroid Ryugu in 2020 is releasing some of its findings. It brought back samples from the surface

Oscillating Inner Core

13 June 2022 Physics
Paul sent in a link to this story but see https://phys.org/news/2022-06-earth-feet-core-oscillates.html ... the earth's inner core oscillates. This contradicts previously accepted models that claimed it

Jupiter Inhomogeneous

13 June 2022 Astronomy
At https://phys.org/news/2022-05-jupiter-inhomogeneous-metallicity-clues.html ... Gary sent in a link but this story is easier to read at PhysOrg. Jupiter's gaseous envelope doesn't have a homogeneous distribution.

Radio Bursts

11 June 2022 Astronomy
At https://phys.org/news/2022-06-strange-radio.html ... concerns the source of very active repeating fast radio bursts, and a persistent radion emission between those bursts. The scientists find this