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Sun spots have been in short supply of late and even when they have provided a CME it has been weak. Same may  be true

Seems like the Toba super volcano eruption 74,000 years ago is looking weaker. Not only is there evidence it had little to effect people in

This is the headline in a couple of news sources - the leaky atmosphere of Mars. See for example https://phys.org/print437390658.html ... is about the way

At https://anthropology.net/2018/02/10/richard-coss-argues-neanderthals-did... .... Richard Coss, described as a professor emeritus of psychology, questions why there is no Neanderthal cave art in the archaeological record. He

At https://phys.org/print437373834.html ... the universe is highly magnetic - with everything from stars to planets to galaxies producing their own magnetic fields. The researchers created

Sea floor data point to a global volcanism event after the Chicxulub meteor crashed into the Yucatan peninsular - see https://phys.org/print437224338.html ... the highest peak

Go to https://phys.org/print437245752.html ... for the story. Basically, the mainstream view for a long time has been that Earth's inner core formed a billion years

Archaeological excavations of Tell Edfu, ongoing for the last 16 years, have revealed some interesting information about how people lived in the Old Kingdom -

It seems that when the Sun is more active than normal, with lots of flares, some of which are directly aimed at the Eaarth, the

At https://phys.org/print437125828.html ... in this instance, clay formation on the planet Mars. Temperature on Mars is well below freezing but it must once have been

At https://phys.org/print437129335.html ... HINODE captures record breaking solar magnetic field. A sun spot observed by the HINODE spacecraft. Astronomers in Japan discovered the largest magnetic

It's been pretty cold in the US - especially in the NE. Over in the UK we have had some cold spells - nothing out

Gary sent in this link www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5359111/Billions-viruses-bacteri... ... courtesy of British Columbia. Not exactly the same as Hoyle and Wickramasinghe and 'Diseases from Space' as the

Robert also sent in this link at www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5345049/Did-ancient-Greeks-sail-... ... did ancient Greeks sail to Canada. The idea if is based on something mentioned by the

Robert sent in the link www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5343567/Thousands-Mayapyramids-p... ... which concerns the use of LIDAR technology to peer through the tree canopy and image the ground surface

Sent in by Gary - at www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5346517/Ancient-humans-witnessed... ... here we are back at the Younger Dryas boundary event. If nothing else these guys are persistent.

Javan sent in two links to this story - http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/deadthings/2018/01/31/stone-tools-from... ... and www.scientificamerican.com/article/stone-tools-from-india-fan-debate-ove... ... a cache of stone tools from SE India, not far from

William has picked up on another dinosaur story at https://phys.org/print436616782.html ... a slab of sandstone found at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Centre in Maryland

Gary sent this link to his web site - at www.godkingscenario.com/blog/dinosaurs-mongolia-rapidly-buried-extraterr... ... which refers to an article I looked at but did not report, on

The conspiracy continues, it would seem. At https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/01/30/greenland-getting-colder-but-plea... ... a guest author says, Greenland is getting colder but please, keep believing it is getting warmer.