In the News

At https://eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-09/uop-gra091218.php ... the British mainland, we are told, was formed by the collisions of three land masses. It has long been thought that most

At https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-09/uoc--gbs091118.php ... bacteria that produce electricity have been found in mines and on the bottom of lakes. Now they have found it in the

At https://eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-09/e-apt091218.php ... a study published in the Journal of Archaeological Science suggests beer brewing existed in the Levant (and Eastern Mediterranean) 500 years prior

At https://phys.org/print456046461.html ... magnetic waves create chaos in star forming clouds. Stella Offner of the University of Texas in Austin has found that magnetic waves

At last, after days of media hype hurricane Florence has made landfall in North Carolina (and its wet and windy from the news pictures bounced

At https://phys.org/print456059321.html ... Professor Timothy Lenton from Exeter university in association with French professor, Bruno Lantour, argue that humans have the potential to upgrade the

At https://andymaypetrophysicist.com/2018/09/06/the-great-climate-debate-re... ... which provides a link to https://andymaypetrophysicist.files.wordpress.com/2018/09/the-great-deba... ... Happer versus Karoly: a climate debate. Actual debates on the greenhouse theory are very rare

Robert Maximus has a thread on the thunderbolts forum on catastrophist geology and at one point the discussion moves to the origin of rock salt

At https://phys.org/print455796042.html ... bright surface features on the asteroid Ceres were discovered by the Dawn Mission in 2015. See image below ...   ... At

This will inlcude Bob Johnson's talk, 'Why the Electric Universe isn't the same as the Plasma Universe and Why it Matters' ... which will be

At www.spaceweather.com (September 7th 2018) a fascinating claim. Two solar storms are striking the earth this weekend and in the next couple of days, each

Aty https://phys.org/print455346704.html ... fatty residue on pottery from the Dalmation coast of Croatia has revealed the presence of fermented dairy products - soft cheeses and

At https://phys.org/print455295727.html ... NASAs new mission Focussing Optics X-ray Solar Imager, or FOXSI, is due to take its thrid flight (in September). Maybe it has

Remarkable photograph from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, a huge cloud of mushroom spores as a result of a lawnmower blowing apart the fungi and filling the air

At https://phys.org/print455182676.html ... analysing traces of leaf wax from local plants that accumulated in sediments in the sea by a team of researchers at the

Water water everywhere - not a drop to drink. Water on the moon, on Mars, and now on Jupiter - see https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/08/31/nasa-indications-of-water-on-jupi... ... which appears

At https://phys.org/print454252017.html ... a fossil horse foal has been uncovered in Yukatia in Russia - perfectly preserved in the permafrost. It still has its skin,

At https://phys.org/print454742797.html ...    ... and see also www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-08/uoc-sai082818.php ... amber, obsidian, jade, jet, and rock crystals of all kinds have been used in the

Sent in by Jovan. At https://phys.org/print453997528.html ... which concerns the meteor seen over Detroit back in January of this year. Its explosion and disintegration was

Waves of migration from Anatolia and the Zagros Mountains (modern Turkey and Iran) entered the Levant during the early Chalcolithic period - as proved by