In the News

At https://www.timesofisrael.com/evidence-of-sodom-meteor-blast-cause-of-bi... .. this is the expected paper promised by SIS member Phil Silvia - just read out at a conference (and already making waves).

Robert also sent in this link to the discovery of explosions in Earth's magnetic tail - buffetted by a stream of solar wind (but see

Robert sent in this link to www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6407781/Earth-swallowing-TRILLIO... ... which is derived from an article at https://nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0655-4 ... which according to Robert has it the wrong

At https://phys.org/print461827831.html ... scientists from Australia and China and the US have published a study in the journal Nature (19th November 2018) which purports to

This is one of those things where you just have to wonder where they are coming from - and quite how their brains work. It

This time the asteroid strike was on a moon of Mars, Phobus - see https://phys.org/print461938210.html ... a new study claims stranges goings on Mars moon

At http://spaceweather.com 23rd November 2018 ... musical waves in Earth's magnetic field (see also https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/11/23/our-quiet-sun-produces-musical-wa...) ...  our quiet Sun produces musical waves in Earth's magnetic

A fascinating tale from the Andaman and Nicobar islands in the Bay of Bengal (between India and SE Asia). The story came about after the

The big boys in this story are mega-herbivores - and the animals that preyed on them, the sabre toothed cats. Why did they become extinct.

Here is the article to go with the story about rain in the Atacama desert - overflowing crater lakes caused canyons to be cut out

Robert sent in this interesting link - https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6398599/All-glass-Earth-... ... (and www.cardiff.ac.uk/news/view/1371708-glass-made-from-exploding-stars ... ) ... all the glass in the world comes from exploding stars (supernovae).

At https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2018/11/13/lost-ancient-city-buil... ... another legacy of the Trojan War is the city of Tenea, first settled by prisoners brought over from Troy (or that is

At https://phys.org/print461583534.html ... the Antarctic Circumpolar Current helps keep the southern continent frozen we are told. It is the strongest ocean current on the planet

At https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6397621/Why-536-AD-worst... ... Why AD536 was the worst year ever. Ever and ever. A new report claims a mysterious fog blocked out the Sun and

The big news story this week is of course the discovery of a massive crater under the Greenland ice sheet. Both William and Gary have

At https://phys.org/print461478434.html ... the study of auroras has revealed a new way of understanding the physics of explosive energy released in space according to new

At https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMjdZfpElwA ... news of the discovery of some pristine 5th dynasty tombs at Saqqara, the necropolis of Memphis, from around 2500BC (in old money).

At https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6385185/Climate-change-l... ... we have a post sent in by Gary. The same story is at https://popular-archaeology.com/article/climate-change-likely-caused-mig... ... but with a bit less hype (although

At http://spaceweather.com ... (November 14th, 2018). Radio lasers on Jupiter produced as a result of plasma instabilities - sounds almost like the EU. They are

At https://phys.org/print461316344.html ... fossil birds of the Cretaceous. We don't usually hear much about birds in the dinosaur era - not the size of crows