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Interstellar Visitor
14 December 2024 > Astronomy, cosmologyWilliam sent in a link to https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/an-interstellar-visitor-helped-shape-the-orbits-of-the-planets/ar-AAIvFl6D .... a new theory on how the planets arranged themselves in the current configuration. See also https://phys.org/news/2024-12-interstellar-visitor-orbits-planets.html ...

Stretched Crust
14 December 2024 > GeologyJohn Phethean, an earth scientist and lecturer at the university of Derby, was invited to join a team of geologists investigating the Davis Strait -

White Smokers on the bottom of the Dead Sea
11 December 2024 > Environmentalism, GeologyThis story is at https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/it-looks-like-smoke-mysterious-chimneys-spewing-shimmering-liquid-discovered-at-the-bottom-of-the-dead-sea ... there are towering salt chimneys formed by liquids spewing forth from the bottom of the dead sea - white

Electricity and Insects
11 December 2024 > Biology, ElectromagnetismRobert also sent in a link but see first https://wired.com/story/the-secret-electrostatic-world-of-insects/ ... invisibly, to humans, insects and various other kinds of small creatures, even hummingbirds, use

Jupiter's Poles
11 December 2024 > Astronomy, ElectromagnetismRobert sent in a couple of links https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/11/241126135634.htm ... and https://phys.org/news/2024-11-magnetically-driven-vortices-generating-earth.html ... spots have been noticed at both poles of Jupiter, appearing, and later, disappearing.

Expansion of the Universe
11 December 2024 > Astronomy, cosmologyWilliam sent in a link https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/universe-expanding-faster-than-physics-can-explain-webb-telescope-confirms-mysterious-growth-spurt/ar-AA1vxGtT ... the universe is expanding faster than mainstream physics allow. The James Webb Space Telsscope confirms the mysterious spurt

Net Zero Bashing
6 December 2024 > Climate change, EnvironmentalismAt https://dailysceptic.org/2024/11/05/science-shock-u-k-met-office-is-inventing-temperature-data-from-100-non-existent-stations/ ... and the same story can be seen at https://tallbloke.wordpress.com ... and https://wattsupwiththat.com ... among others, arousing some excitement amongst Net Zero sceptics.

Capturing a Planet
6 December 2024 > AstronomyAt https://sciencealert.com/scientists-reveal-how-our-solar-system-could-capture-a-new-planet .... which uses the visit of Oumuamua to our solar system a few years ago to exploe how our solar system might not

Ceres space rock
6 December 2024 > AstronomyAt https://phys.org/news/2024-12-evidence-material-ceres-solar-rich.html ... this concerns material brought back to Earth from the asteroid Ceres, otherwise described as a small planet, during NASAs DAWN mission. Ceres

Solfatara Crater
27 November 2024 >Sent in by William and somewhat thought provoking. What would a supervolcano do for the Net Zero agenda? At https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/scientists-warn-of-a-supervolcano-awakening-that-could-trigger-global-chaos/ar-AA1uEJ9o ... the Solfatara crater in

Black Hole Imaging
23 November 2024 > cosmology, Electric Universe, Electromagnetism, PhysicsIt seems there are problems with the much distributed image of a black hole event horizon. A ring of light that is said to surround

A Ranting Look at Net Zero
23 November 2024 > Climate changeNeil Oliver, once a BBC regular and commentator on archaeology and history, and the author of several fascinating books on our past, has published a

Raindrops Frozen in Time
23 November 2024 > Geology, PalaeontologyWilliam sent in the link and Robert was aware of the story as well. See for example https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/experts-stumble-on-sandstone-slabs-with-footprints-of-entire-280-million-year-old-ecosystem-that-predate-dinosaurs/ar-AA1uzyvN ... a discovery in the Italian Alps

Ozone Hole and Salt in the Mediterranean
22 November 2024 >At https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2024/11/18/scientists-havent-saved-the-ozone-layer-master-resource/ ... which is derived from another source. Back in 2015 scientists were predicting the ozone hole would have been reduced by at least

Big Australian Marsupials and Canadian Hazlenut exploitation.
22 November 2024 > Biology, Environmentalism, EvolutionAt https://phys.org/news/2024-11-megafauna-mystery-australia-year-cold.html .... Australian megafauna were common in the Late Pleistocene period. They appear to have rapidly increased in size after 2.5 million years ago

Plague, outback lakes, and hallucigens
22 November 2024 > Archaeology, GeologyAt https://phys.org/news/2024-11-scotland-plague-reveals-humanity-black.html ... a University of Aberdeen study has been looking at the last outbreak of bubonic plague in Scotland, during the 1640s. It coincided

KIing Arthur's Hall
16 November 2024 > ArchaeologyAt https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/medieval-king-arthur-site-is-4-000-years older-than-we-thought ... medieval is used rather loosely as it is immediate post-Roman period where King Arthur is usually located. This is 4000 years

Sophie Koudmani
16 November 2024 > Astronomy, cosmology, PhysicsStaying within a space theme we have astrophysicist Sophie Koudmani taking a fress look at black holes - but not straying too far from consensus

Capturing the Moon
16 November 2024 > AstronomyBoth Robert and Gary sent in separate links to this story - at https://www.earth.com/news/earth-may-have-captured-the-moon-from-space/ ... I may already have posted this story but no harm

God of Chaos
5 November 2024 > Archaeology, AstronomyAt https://www.livescience.com/space/asteroids/god-of-chaos-asteroid-may-be-transformed-by-tremors-and-landslides-during-2029-flyby-of-earth-study-finds ... the asteroid Apophis flyby in 2029 might not be so tranquil as astronomers have been telling us. Its close passage to Earth