In the News

At https://humanprogress.org/article.php?p=1236 ... Nick Ridley on nuclear fusion, a favourite subject of Tony Haynes. We miss you Tony - and as he was fond of

At https://phys.org/print464518768.html ... flying reptiles, such as the klobiodon, once littered the skies of what is now the UK, it is thought, after their fossilised

The full article on the impact crater found beneath a glacier in NW Greenland is now available - at http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/11/eaar8173 See also https://cosmictusk.com/10206-2/

At http://spaceweather.com (22nd December 2018) as NASAs spacecraft New Horizons approaches Ultima Thule - flying past it on New Year;s Day, a mystery has developed.

At https://phys.org/print464621303.html ... a big space crash likely made Uranus lopsided according to Durham University computer simulation. Uranus is a very big planet so we

At https://phys.org/print464581407.html ... we have one of those alarmist doom and despondency stories based on the discovery that in the last interglacial period the West

At https://phys.org/print464353666.html ... fossils now indicate flowering plants originated 50m million years earler that thought by consensus science - back in the Early Jurassic era.

Interesting story sent in by Gary at www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6509427/Giant-dust-particles-Sah... ... large dust particles with an origin in the Sahara desert have been found in the Caribbean,

Robert also sent in a link to https://phys.org/print464237850.html ... and asks, do tornadoes form in a process similar to lightning. That is, a downward propagating

The Sussex seaside and fishing town of Hastings is in the news. The mudstone and sandstone cliffs have yielded a dinosaur bonanza - after bad

Link provided by Robert courtesy of our old friend from Great Yarmouth, and his blog at 'Everything is Electric' - go to https://thedailyplasma.blog/2018/12/09/eye-of-the-storm-part-1/ ... the

AGW activists and the media like to repeat certain overblown mantras regarding global warming. These include 'poley' bears (living close to the North Pole) starving

Robert sent in a link to https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/89/13/6045.full.pdf ... with the note, back in the 1990s Thomas Gold wrote about the Deep Hot Biosphere. The link

An interesting conversation at https://youtu.be/prrbooi9PNw?t=1800 ... see also https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/12/13/jordan-peterson-and-bjorn-lomborg/

Megalodons might be something you know about because your children or grandchildren have been on You Tube looking for monster animals - and Megalodon were

In the early 20th century geologists became aware that certain rocks exhibited magnetism that was different in orientation from the current magnetic field of the

Robert sent in the links https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6479655/Nasas-Voyager-2-... ... and https://astronomynow.com/2018/12/10/voyager-2-leaves-the-suns-influence-... ... and https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-s-voyager-2-probe-enters-interst... .... Voyager 2 is now officially outside the Earth's magnetic bubble and within

At http://sciencenordic.com/greenland-icebergs-may-have-triggered-younger-d... ... courtesy of https://cosmictusk.com/younger_dryas_ice_bergs_greenland_hiawatha_comet/ ... Greenland ice bergs may have triggered the Younger Dryas event is the title of what is a 2013

At Tall Bloke's talk shop 'Old Brew' (which sounds like a winter warmer such as Sadler's Peaky Blinder) has a post on magnetic reconnection -

At https://phys.org/print463398015.html ... the oldest trace of bubonic plague has been found in a passage grave in Scandinavia - going back 5000 years. The discovery