In the News

At https://phys.org/news/2024-06-reveals-comet-airburst-evidence-years.html ... researchers  continue to expand the evidence for a Younger Dryas impact event, we are told. A fragmenting comet, to be precise, resulting

This concerns Sennacherib, otherwise Sin ahe eriba, in his war of conquest in the southern Levant. William Thompson, in his MS Word document, Cosmic Catastrophism

At https://spaceweather.com ... see archive for 19th June, 2024 ... we are told the super solar storm of May 10th 2024 did more than spark

What's it all about. At https://phys.org/news/2024-06-ancient-maya-genomes-reveal-male.html ... another interesting discovery by genetic research. The rise of Chichen Itsa after the collapse of the Classic Maya

In Current Archeology 412 [June/July 2024] - see https://www.archaeology.co.uk ... we learn that Woodhenge was built at the same time as Stonehenge - on the

At https://www.sciencealert.com/giant-tonga-volcanic-eruption-could-disrupt-weather-for-years-to-come ... The Hunga Tonga Ha'apai submarine volcano, which erupted in 2022, is the subject of a new study in the journal Climate. It

At https://www.sciencealert.com/mysterious-seahenge-structure-in-uk-may-finally-be-explained ... tidal erosion exposed the Bronze Age structure known as Seahenge. It had a companion that has since been lost to the sea.

At https://www.sciencealert.com/new-evidence-challenges-origin-theory-on-the-universes-heaviest-elements ... the mainstream consensus is that after Big Bang the universe consisted mainly of hydrogen and a bit of helium. These are the

William sent in an MSN link to this story - and an accompanying note from an old friend with connections to the museum. His friend

At https://phys.org/news/2024-05-mystery-solar-unveiled-orbiter-mission.html ... ESAs Solar Orbiter Mission has been looking at the surface of the Sun. How, for example, the solar wind forms. They describe

At https://phys.org/news/2024-05-earth-mysterious-d-layer-relic.html ... a relic of ancient oceans and planetary collisions, we are told - earth's mysterious D layer.  It is located roughly 3000 km

Gary sent in the link https://www.sciencealert.com/venus-appears-to-be-a-churning-hotbed-of-volcanic-activity ... Venus appears to be a churning hotbed of volcanic activity. A re-analysis of data seems to indicate heavy

At https://www.livescience.com/health/genetics/the-mystery-of-the-disappearing-neanderthal-y-chromosome ... the human genome is thought to preserve Neanderthal DNA, so much so it effects health amongst the modern human population. There is,

William sent in the link https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/fhree-scientific-discoveries-that-suggest-god-created-the-universe/ss-BB1mZrub# ...   and remembering that MSN is a major US media company, it is something of a surprise. Three

At https://spaceweather.com ... 24th and 25th May, 2024 ... The recent geomagneitc storm on May 10th and 11th, which brought auroras much further south than

Interesting develoopment. When it was realised that high spikes of radiation into the atmosphere was not as uncommon as thought it was suggested the bigger

At https://phys.org/news/2024-05-biologists-caterpillars-electrostatic-fields-generated.html .... note ... this is electrostatic rather than electromagnetic, and is caused by friction. The researchers sought out electrostatic rather than electricity itself.

This is at https://www.space.com/egyptian-goddess-of-the-sky-astronomy-milky-way ... one of the mysteries of ancient history - or is that mythology? What exactly did people see when they looked

It is not just catastrophic events, such as tidal waves and flash floods, earthquakes or volcanoes, but fires that engulf buildings or settlements they too

At https://www.livescience.com/physics-mathematics/newfound-glitch-in-einsteins-relativity-could-rewrite-the-rules-of-the-universe-study-suggests .... somebody will be along shortly to refute this study, as tends to happen when Einstein's Relativity is contradicted. Einstein's General Relativity revolves