In the News

Robert sent in the link to https://expertsvar.se/en/pressmeddelanden/electrical-and-chemical-coupli... ... electrical and chemical coupling between Saturn and its rings - Swedish research results published in the journal

The former head of a secret US government programme set up to investigate UFO sightings has told the media that extraterrestrial life may exist -

At www.sciencenews.org/article/sun-corona-outer-atmosphere-complex ... newly analysed images could help solve mysteries about solar wind and the superhot corona. The outer corona may appear smooth and calm

Worlds in Collision is making a dramatic comeback. What with collisions on Earth creating the Moon, and variously theories regarding Venus and Jupiter we now

Some people, it would seem, are seriously looking at the possibility the Oumuamua asteroid may be an alien spacecraft. It has exhibited some peculiar features

At https://phys.org/print432456033.html ... excavations at a Viking site in Trondheim in Norway has uncovered a decorative fitting from a book pilfered from Ireland (or the

At https://phys.org/print432463395.html ... geologists exploring volcanic rocks on the Isle of Skye have exposed a meteorite impact zone - containing rare minerals with an origin

At https://phys.org/print432547128.html ... on the 'things are getting interesting' cavalcade this one is worth looking at. The Keck Cosmic Web Imager (KCWI) has been operative

Jovan has sent in a lot of links this week. Here are two of them. At http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2017/12/08/speed-of-gravity-li... .... why does gravity travel at the speed

Robert sent in a number of links on the same subject - geology on Mars. More specifically, a so called fault line. See for example

At https://phys.org/print432201867.html ... the Southern Surveyor research vessal has been looking at the continental shelf system off New South Wales and they have discovered huge

Why iron meteorites reach the surface of the Earth but chondrites and conglomerate meteors tend to explode in the atmosphere - breaking into many pieces

Robert sent in the link https://crev.info/2017/12/is-this-duck-a-dinosaur/ ... a dinosaur that looks like a duck ...    a bird like dinosaur fossil from Mongolia - but

Jovan sent in the links below - www.missionjuno.swri.edu/news/juno-probes-depths-of-great-red-spot ... and www.space.com/39066-jupiter-great-red-spot-depth-juno-spacecraft.html ... data collected by NASAs Juno spacecraft indicates that the great red spot penetrates

The hum has been a subject in Northern Earth magazine for several years - see for example page 25 issue 151, December 2017. At https://phys.org/print431859742.html

Jovan sent in this link - www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/why-is-earth-magnetized-and-venus... ... why is Earth magnetised but Venus is not magnetised. It seems planetary scientists don't really know what

At https://phys.org/print431945566.html ... geomythology is back in the news. It is still an embryonic science we are told - and has to overcome prejudice and

At https://phys.org/print431943147.html ... geologists disprove theory about what stopped the formation of the Mid Continent Rift (in N America). This rift is generally thought responsible

It seems like black holes are not living up to the hype surrounding them as the magnetic field of one is much less powerful than

It seems the Tempest stela of Ahmose, first king of dynasty 18, belongs to a delicate stage in the removal of the Hyksos from the