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William forwarded a link to a video of Wal Thornhill - go to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFJjrD5pq_I ... which questions the idea gravitational waves were really detected and

Robert Farrar sent in the link to this post. However, it was featured a days ago in an earlier News post, on November 24th, at

A black hole anomaly - see https://phys.org/print431092750.html ... at the centre of our galaxy, in the immediate vicinity of the Milky Way's supermassive black hole,

At https://phys.org/print431099162.html ... geophysicists discover evidence for an alternative style of plate tectonics - although it doesn't really sound much like plate movements. J Tuzo

In Current Archaeology 333 (December 2017) we learn that one third of Neolithic stone axes in Britain come from greenstone outcrops at the foot of

At www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-11/lmsu-shd112717.php ... and https://phys.org/print431074151.html ... we have a story of a camel painted on the walls of a cave in the southern Urals that

The Indus civilisation thrived during the third millennium BC and into the 2nd millennium BC (basically it was contemporary with the Bronze age in Egypt,

Speaking of water, scientists discover evidence of recent water flow on Mars - see https://phys.org/print430640889.html ... and the scientists in question come from a number

Oh dear. The mainstream thought vigilantes have been out in force after the parents of a precocious biology student witnessed a man from the water

Space dust can transport life between planets - see www.astronomy.com/news/2017/11/life-in-dust#.Whh0luAwbyE.mailto ... dust and debris form ancient asteroid collisions, and outflow from comets as well as

At https://phys.org/print430554336.html ... when a comet passed through the inner solar system at the beginning of 2017 it presented astronomers with the chance to turn

This is an interesting story and can be found at various places on the Internet - for example, at https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/11/22/discovery-lightning-creates-anti-... .. lightning creates anti matter

Sent in by Gary. At www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5105879/The-moon-s-surface-solid... .... the Moon's surface was a magma ocean - until it solidified. How long did that take? We are

The way physicists represent the universe and its history are described in Einstein's equation of general relativity, Newton's universal gravitation, and quantum mechanics. The consensus

Researchers are catching up it seems as migrations in the historical past are now being linked to switches in global climate (and tectonic activity) at

At https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/11/22/study-when-the-sun-pulses-x-rays-... ... Electric Universe has been something of a taboo for a number of years at WattsUpWithThat climate blog - but it seems even

At www.space.com/38844-nasa-satellites-track-breathing-earth.html ... we have a 5 minute NASA video plus a couple of pages of text - sent in by Robert. He pointed out

Scientists claim to have created conditions similar to a so called subduction zone. The transport and release of water during subduction processes is thought to

At www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php ... and https://phys.org/print430401551.html ... Martian streaks, dark lines on Mars thought to be evidence of sub-surface flowing water are now thought to be

At http://spaceweather.com (November 20th) we have news of another round of solar wind making a rendevous with the Earth in the next few days, coinciding