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Jovan sent in a number of links. This one is on the search for Planet Nine - go to www.scientificamerican.com/article/looking-for-planet-nine-astronomers-g... ... Looking for Planet Nine

This is the title of the piece at https://anthropology.net/2018/03/23/debunking-toba-catastrophe-theory/ ... it is true that catastrophism is not welcome as far as geology and human history

At https://phys.org/print441019716.html ... Germany was covered by glaciers 450,000 years ago. In Britain the Anglian glaciation is dated at the same time and is most

At https://phys.org/print441015805.html ... advances in ocean monitoring are improving our understanding of the sea and its environment - from marine creatures to sea surface temperature

Jovan sent in the link http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2018/03/20/stephen-hawking-fin... ... what did Stephen Hawking's final paper say (and doesn't say). It was on the idea of the multi-verse

This story is at https://phys.org/print441004470.html ... evidence of an abrupt sea level rise 7600 years ago has been discovered in the northern Aegean. It is

Chris Catling, in World Current Archaeology 88 sets his eye on recent DNA research. In issue 85 he drew attention to the lack of a

At http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/winter-2018/article/entomologist-co... ... researchers from Huddersfield and Italy have been in the Libyan desert and they have discovered people in the Sahara were cultivating and

In the February issue of Current Archaeology we have another interesting post at 'Science Notes' (page 12) on C14 dating methodology - and how it

At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/03/180319220955.htm ... 115,000 years old bone tools found in China -quite sophisticated in technique. They were used to modify stone tools. These are known

William sent in the link https://phys.org/print440830205.html ... evidence that a red star disturbed the prehistoric solar system is the premise of a paper in Monthly

I was looking through a press release at https://phys.org/print440836060.html ... which is about the genomes of five late Neanderthals that lived between 39,000 and 47,000

At http://notrickszone.com/2018/03/19/since-2008-0-24c-of-extra-warming-has... ... this should cause consternation but sadly won't. Since 2008 some 0.24 degrees C of 'extra' warming has been added to NASA GISS

   at http://spaceweather.com/ (March 19th 2018), captured from Marup in Denmark by Rusian Merzlyakov, a geomagnetic storm at the vernal equinox.

At https://cosmosmagazine.com/palaeontology/australia-s-jurassic-park-leave... ... at Walmadany in Western Australia there are dinosaur footprints - in their hundreds. They are preserved in the Kimberley sandstone. They have

Lots of tributes to Stephen Hawking out there after his recent death, last week. He is well known for his work on black holes for

Extrapolating seems to be the name of the game nowadays - and was probably ever thus. The whole gist of the climate alarm is based

Jovan sent in the link www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/exoplanets/the-fate-of-exomoons-w... ... and once again we are back into mainstream worlds in collision. The title is 'The Fate of Exomoons

The assumption is that Plate Tectonics is a fact at https://phys.org/print440354779.html ... which must also pertain to the origin of garnet. This mineral or rock

At https://phys.org/print440339145.html ... the discovery of fossils belonging to a new group of people, the Denisovans (in central Asia) a few years back has led