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At https://phys.org/print447399984.html ... dinosaur age marine fossils have been found in the middle of Australia - hundreds of miles from the sea. They are micro-organisms

This story comes from NASA but is pretty widespread on the blogs - see for example https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/06/organic-molecules-found-on-mars-mit-... .... Curiosity Rover found organic material on Mars

At https://phys.org/print447402256.html ... we are told it takes 120 million years for a slab of anicent sea floor to subduct to a sufficient distance into

At https://phys.org/print447421745.html ... the theme here is that C14 carbon dating is a big tool as used by archaeologists  in order to date the age

At https://phys.org/print447490481.html ... astronomers have spotted two super flares issuing forth from a brown dwarf star. The discovery is detailed in a paper published on

Also sent in by Jovan. Busy man. At https://astronomynow.com/2018/05/26/evidence-found-for-giant-comet-theor... ... what is the origin of Pluto? Is it a planet - or something else. It

Having a laugh. The amount of co2 emissions perpetrated by humans is falling every day it would seem. Dr Boris Smirnov, an atomic physicist and

Sent in by Jovan (as the earlier link to Sky and Telescope). Global warming caused by co2 levels reaching 2300 parts per million. Currently we

At www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/close-stellar-encounters-surge/#.... ... close stellar encounters. An analysis of our stellar neighbourhood is said to reveal more stellar traffic then recognised - stars that sideswipe

In Current World Archaeology 89 (June 2018) - www.world-archaeology.com ... there is an article on Iran's prehistory. It says the archaeology of Iran is dominated

Further updates on the Stonehenge landscape are outlined in Mike Haigh's 'archaeology review' in Northern Earth magazine 153 (June 2018) - see www.northernearth.co.uk ... It

British Archaeology magazine (May of 2018) has an interesting article by Mike Pitts. It concerns geophysics surveys around Stonehenge. The Hidden Landscape project and the

At https://phys.org/print446911328.html ... Does dark matter carry an electric charge is the headline - which turns out to be a bit of PR. Astronomers, it

At https://phys.org/print447061881.html ... it is 50 years since the last formation was discovered and defined in the Grand Canyon but now geologists have been having

Metal detectorists came across a quantity of Roman coins in a field between Exeter and Newton Abbot in Devon and this led to an archaoelogical

At https://phys.org/print446798161.html ... modelling works well when applied to for example, geology (rates of erosion etc) but how reliable is it when applied to the

Spaceflight is difficult. Blasting heavy cargoes and spacecraft to respectable speeds over interplanetary distances requires so much propellant to sent rockets to far away places

Scientists have struggled with a lingering question in geology. Why do the structures and elevations of some mountains continue to evolve long after the tectonic

At the link here the standard model of particle physics is discussed in an easy to understand manner - go to https://theconversation.com/the-standard-model-of-particle-physics-the-a... ... which begins,

This is a cracker NASA images of massive flares unleashed by the Sun. There is currently a lack of sunspots but the Sun is highly