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Interesting post with links at https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2018/12/04/space-weather-may-predict-fut... ... space weather may be used to predict future climate change. Historical space weather may help climate scientists predict

At https://phys.org/print463140043.html ... a study led by Texas University has shown supersoft X-ray emissions in space can originate from accretion as well as nuclear fusion

At https://phys.org/print463137812.html ... volcanoes are not fed by molten magma is the claim but by reservoirs of volcanic mush - areas of mostly solid crystals

Hibben in for rehabilitation. A doubtful ending to a long saga but it seems all the internet anti-Hibben verbals may have got it wrong after

America's National Centre for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) has posted a video illustrating what might happen if an asteroid crashed into one of the earth's oceans.

One of the most baffling puzzles of astrophysics are radio bursts. They are extremely bright flashes of light with radio wavelengths - but last just

At https://phys.org/print462787441.html ... human occupation of the Tibetan plateau is now thought to go back to between 40 and 30 thousand years ago. The high

At https://phys.org/print462785907.html ... a supernova discovered by several astronomers in different parts of the world has provided an unprecedented look at the first moments of

How were the heavy elements formed in the wake of Big Bang - see https://phys.org/print462530198.html ... research from the University of Western Australia suggests condtions

This is an interesting link to a new study that will not be received with universal enthusiasm by mainstream but it has been published in

At https://phys.org/print462510653.html ... an Anglo Saxon cemetery has been found in the Lincolnshire Wolds dating back from the late 5th to early 6th century AD.

New Concepts in Global Tectonics journal (of September 2018, volume 6, number 3). See http://ievpc.org/ncgt-journal.html and http://ievpc.org/journals.html... and straightaway we learn the editor is dead.

At http://www.godkingscenario.com/blog/did-the-bizarre-practice-of-artifici... ... did the bizarre practice of cranial deformation derive from observations of an elongated celestial body. Artificial cranial modification, head flattening and head

The comet that was supposed to make a show in November and December has taken a back seat, possibly forgotten as a new comet on

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