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At https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ancient-shark-parasite-fossil-amber ... a tapeworm found fossilised in amber looks strikingly similar to tapeworms found in the guts of modern day sharks. The fossil goes

The big story of the last week was the publication of a research paper that claims a former bed of the Nile passed very close

This is a space photograph of the Gum Nebula - and this is otherwise known as the Cometary Globule. The latest image resembles an arm

At https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/earthquakes/why-do-earthquakes-happen-far-away-from-plate-boundaries .... A good question. Why do earthquakes occur a long way from plate boundaries. The consensus idea of Plate Tectonics does not always

At https://www.livescience.com/health/genetics/papua-new-guineans-genetically-isolated-for-50000-years-carry-denisovan-genes-that-help-their-immune-system-study-suggests ... Papua New Guineans have been genetically isolated for thousands of years. Virtually all the way back to the Laschamp Event [50 to

Away from the invisible into the visible. At https://cosmosmagazine.com/space/astronomy/giant-structure-space-universe/ .... here we have a colossal structure in space - 1.3 billion light years across. An

It seems as if cosmologists are currently salivating over the idea of primordial black holes as a way of explaining oddities in the universe. At

At https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/neptunes-disappearing-clouds-linked-to-the-solar-cycle ... This came from last year, 2023. Astronomers have said there is a link between Neptune's shifting of cloud abundance and the eleven

The space age has revealed that Plate Tectonics is a peculiarity confined to Earth and is non-existent everywhere else in the solar system. Plate Tectonics

At https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/volcanos/record-shattering-tonga-volcanic-eruption-wasnt-triggered-by-what-we-thought-new-study-suggests ... the Hunga Tonga volcano was a real explosion - triggered by gas building up to a critical point. Scientists had thought it

No, not the Egyptian god of that name, or any pharaoh Apophis, but the asteroid that on Friday the 13th, April of 2029, that will

At https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/major-lunar-standstill-may-reveal-if-stonehenge-is-aligned-with-the-moon ... further to the post last week on Stonehnge and its station stones, forming a rectangle and an alignment to the lunar standstill,

At https://phys.org/news/2024-05-solar-orbiter-mind-boggling-video.html ... a video captured by ESAs Solar Orbiter mission shows feathery hair like structures made of plasma following magnetic field lines in the

At https://phys.org/news/2024-05-assyriologist-archaeological-mystery-bc.html ... mysterious symbols etched on temples in the 8th century BC city of Dur Sharrukin [Khorsabad] appear to have been carved in the

At https://phys.org/news/2024-05-cosmic-glitch-gravity-strange-behavior.html ... Canadian researchers claim to have found a 'cosmic glitch' in gravity. This may explain the strange behaviour of the universe. Gravity becomes

A motley collection. At https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/lasers-reveal-prehistoric-irish-monuments-that-may-have-been-pathways-for-the-dead ... LiDAR technology has really revolutionised archaeogy. They can, for example, peer into woodland and map the ground on which

William sent in the link https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/strange-structures-discovered-in-the-pacific-could-change-our-understanding-of-earth/ ... here we have some unexplained geology in South Africa, on the one hand, and New Zealand, on the

At https://www.iflscience.com/engraved-bone-of-prehistoric-bear-is-the-oldest-example-of-neanderthal-culture-73884/ ... in this we are back to the last Interglacial Period with a date between 115,000 and 130,000 years ago. It involves a

At https://phys.org/news/2024-04-art-discoveries-eastern-sudan-tale.html ... in the desert of eastern Sudan, in what is called the Atbai Desert, there are plentiful rock art sites - along what

Robert sent in some interesting links. At https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/5-catastrophic-megathrust-earthquakes-led-to-the-demise-of-the-pre-aztec-city-of-teotihuacan-new-study-suggests .... the gist of the paper is that evidence of earthquakes found at Teotihuacan caused the demise