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Nu Cho ga
2 July 2022 CatastrophismSent 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 GeologyThe 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 CatastrophismThe 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 ArchaeologyAt 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 PhysicsAt 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 GeologySent 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 GeologyAt 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 ElectromagnetismAt 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 ElectromagnetismSee 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 PhysicsFossil 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 changeWilliam 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 ArchaeologyKevin 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 ArchaeologyAn 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 AstronomyAt 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 ArchaeologyAt 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 AstronomyThis 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 AstronomyAt 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 PhysicsPaul 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 AstronomyAt 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 AstronomyAt 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