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There are a couple of interesting posts at Thunderbolts - go to www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2019/05/05/the-eye-of-the-storm-part-2/ ... Jupiter is our largest neighbour and generates the largest electro-magnetic field

At https://notrickszone.com/2019/05/18/royal-meteorological-society-confirm... k/ .... the Royal Meteorological Society has confirmed the urban heat island effect has significantly increased daily minimum temperature in the UK by

This is an interesting post at http://blog.drwile.com/what-is-the-function-of-a narwhal-tusk/ .... what is the function of a narwhal's tusk. He doesn't reach a conclusion as such but

William sent in a link to www.charlotteobserver.com/news/state/north-carolina/article230191724.html ... which has a nice video of bald cypress trees in a remote swamp. One of these has

In the same week Thunderbolts had a post on Ultima Thule we now have a story at https://sciscomedia.co.uk/new-horizons-ultima-thule/ ... in January, NASAs New Horizons spacecraft

At https://phys.org/news/2019-05-reveals-menu-medieval-peasants.html ... scientists from Bristol University have used chemical analysis of pottery fragments and animals bones to shed some light on what ordinary people

William sent in this link - https://phys.org/news/2019-05-newly-fossil-footprints-paleontologists-re... ... newly discovered fossil footprints force paleontologists to rethink ancient desert inhabitants. The footprints were discovered in a

It is calculated the asteroid/comet that struck the Earth at the K/T boundary was about 14 km across. The Chicxulub crater has a diameter of

At https://q-mag.org/sodom-annilhilated-by-meteorite-blast.html ... in 1908 a massive blast in Siberia flattened 2000 square kilometres of uninhabited taiga forestry. Curiously, no crater was found. Scientists explained

At https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2019/05/dna-study-jomon-woma... ... a Japanese DNA study on the bones of a Jomon woman on an island north of Hokkaido has found a genetic signature

At www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7023841/ ... the Moon has earthquakes - and is shrinking. Moonquakes occur because the Moon is tectonically active - and they cause it to

Another imponderable. Lots of things get trapped in amber but most are land mased animals and insects - or freshwater (from a wetland environment). One

The story comes from https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2019/05/remains-of-rare-preh... ... the remains of a prehistoric crocodile, known as a Thoracosauros, has been found inside a block of chalk. This

At www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7016057/ ... giant beavers once roamed North America, alongside woolly mammoths and giant sloths. They all disappeared at the end of the Pleistocene. These

The European export of plastic consumer waste to developing countries is coming to an end - and no word about it from David Attenbrough or

This one comes courtesy of https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/may/08/mapping-begins-of-lands-... ... a collation of 15 years research is being put together in a map of the bottom of the

At https://eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-05/run-tis050619.php .... the first image of a black hole has led to the next challenge - how to take sharper images in order to

At https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0213572 ... a human footprint that seems to shatter the peopling of the Americas mainstream song sheet. A sedimentary structure at Osome in southern

At https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2019/05/anglo-saxon-princely... ... (see also https://phys.org/news/2019-05-britain-king-tut-tomb-roadside.html) ... a small bump on a patch of grass in Essex, situated between a road and a railway line,

At https://phys.org/news/2019-05-complex-geology-contributed-deepwater-hori... ...  a research paper in Scientific Reports (May 7th 2019) says that complex geology in the Gulf of Mexico contributed to the Deepwater