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I've put this under archaeology as we don't have a genetics thread. It could equally come under anthropology - accept that we are dealing with

In Science Reports (August 2018) we have dinosaur tracks found in Alaska - see https://phys.org/print452768549.html ... and now it is proposed Alaska was the gateway

At https://phys.org/print452857190.html ... on a quiet Sunday two astronomers in Australia came across a supermassive black hole. It is so big it can chomp up

In Chris Catling's 'Sherds' column in Current Archaeology (Aug/Sept 2018) he makes a reference to a recent discovery at Tintagel in Cornwall. This is the

Migration routes into the Americas from Siberia are discussed in a new paper in the journal Science Advances (August, 2018) - see https://phys.org/print453017515.html ... The

Space weather is the term used to describe interactions of the solar wind with the Earth's magnetosphere. Nothing to do with climate. At https://phys.org/print453099984.html ...

At https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2018/08/04/earthquakes-can-systematicall... ... a big earth quake can generate after shocks (or a succession of earthquakes in the same general location) - but it can

At http://spaceweather.com (August 6th, 2018) the annual Perseid meteor shower is under way. Each year the Earth passes through a stream of debris left behind

At https://popular-archaeology.com/article/the-last-hominin-standing .. the last hominin standing - modern humans. This is a useful study and quite interesting but it suffers from certain assumptions. For

At http://spaceweather.com (August 4th, 2018) Comet PanSTARRS was supposed to become a naked eye object in August as it swooped past Mercury - but its

At https://phys.org/print452150037.html ... a carbon leak may have warmed the planet beginning in around 11,000 years ago, encouraging human civilisation to develop. The oceans are

At https://phys.org/print452330358.html ... mass burial sites in the Pacific, Mediterranean, and in Scotland were possibly related to catastrophic tsunami waves, according to research published in

Sent in by William - bizarre rogue planet discovered wandering in our galaxy - see https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/08/04/bizarre-rogue-planet-discovered-w... ... a rogue planet without a star roaming the

Like a runner bean left on the vine too long black holes are getting a bit stringy - go to https://phys.org/print451826969.html ... black holes are

At https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05760-3 ... (25th July 2018)an analysis of ancient coral from the Great Barrier Reef in Australia reveals that global sea levels 'fell rapidly' at

There is going to be a National Geographic documentary on Tall el-Hammam in October. One to look out for as astrophysicist Malcolm La Compte is

Much ado in the media - water on Mars. However, when you dig into the story the water is a mile deep and unavailable for

At https://phys.org/print451717673.html ... isotopic records obtained from caves show how rainfall distribution in Brazil was affected by the Little Ice Age (Geophysical Research Letters, July

This could be classified as geology but is really about climate - palaeoclimate. At https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/07/23/study-abrupt-shifts-occurred-in-t... ... in a similar vein to the previous post, this

At https://phys.org/print451549404.html ... the Holocene is a blink in the eye of geochronology but this has not stopped the grandees fo the International Union of