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At https://popular-archaeology.com/article/unusual-climate-during-roman-tim... .... University of Helsinki seem to be catching up with Mike Baillie and David Keys on the severity of the weather around 536,

Ismenia Patera means, in Latin, a 'flat bowl' - but the term was also used to describe a flat crater on Mars. Its origin has

Jovan sent in a raft of links - most of them dated. In case you missed them here is another opportunity. Ice on Mars is

At www.space.com/40196-black-hole-swarm-milky-way-heart.html ... a swarm of thousands of black holes MAY surround the giant black hole believed to be at the heart of our galaxy,

Easter Island, or Rapa Nui, in the SE Pacific, has spawned various theories and one of these is that the inhabitants, prior to the arrival

Apparently, there are a lot of scientists out there that have reservations about the asteroid/ comet impact theory a the K/T boundary - see https://phys.org/print442051270.html

Supercontinent cycle theory goes back to the 1980s - see https://phys.org/print442074739.html ... Pannotia is one of five supercontinents that predate Pangea and is 'known' to

   ... looks like the chance of a big CME event this coming week - see http://spaceweather.com

Eric's Velikovsky thread has gone big on EU subjects of late. For example, we have some posts on Rupert Sheldrake, one of the speakers at

This one is at https://phys.org/print441899749.html ... astronomers found 72 bright and fast bursts of light - gone within a week (sometimes lasting a month). They

Gary sent in this link - http://time.com/5224561/venus-life-atmosphere-bacteria/ ... the temperatures on Venus surface is reputed to be as high as 465 degrees C - which

Neutrinos betrayed their existence through their absence. In 1914 physicist James Chadwick was looking at beta decay - a from of radiactive decay in which

In Science journal 356 issue 6344 23rd June 2017, under the heading Solar Physics, there is a nice article on the NASA discovery of solar

At https://phys.org/print441599802.html ... did high sea levels in the Mediterranean create the iconic shape of Mount Etna? A study by Iain Stewart of Plymouth University

At Down to Earth geological group we learn that an ancient shoreline has been discovered during preliminary diggings in West London - along the line

At www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-43543195 ... (see also https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2018/03/28/ghost-galaxy-prompts-cosmic-m... ) ... a transparent galaxy about the size of our Milky Way is causing problems for cosmologists. The study

At https://phys.org/print441350161.html ... parts of the Amazon rainforest previously thought virtually uninhabited were really the home of a population of a million people - according

At www.holoscience.com/wp/science-politics-and-global-warming/ ... Amirthanavaqam David has posted the above link in a debate on Electric Universe at Eric's Velikovsky Thread. Interested members of SIS can

At http://phys.org/print441437616.html ... human footprints found off Canada's Pacific coast may be 13,000 years old according to a study in PLoS ONE online journal (March

At https://phys.org/print441438532.html ... fossil crocodiles from the Cretaceous - how did they live and die. Uniformitarian fossilisation and how the process works. Juvenile and adult