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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

At www.xearththeory.com/expanding-earth-theory-debunked/  ... and www.xearththeory.com/ we have two sides of the argument - with links to papers debunking the idea, and opposite, links to papers

In Norfollk (England) there are beaches where the tide has washed away the chalk and left some extraordinary flint formations - see www.geulogy.com/norfolk/beestonbump/flintbackbones-beestonebump.html ...   

At www.geulogy.com ... some interesting points are made. It purports to be the study of geology in an electric universe. Mini craters found all over

At www.livescience.com/60944-ancient-fossil-forest-discovered-in-antarctica... ... a forest that seems to have been fossilised (growing wood turned to stone) at the end of Permian event has been discovered

Research in the Transantarctica Mountains has also thrown up another geological oddity - a pond with one of the saltiest bodies of water on the

The DAWN mission is still throwing up info - see https://phys.org/print429466672.html ... a study in Geophysical Research Letters analysed surface features on Ceres in order

At https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2017/11/14/how-green-deleg... ... which takes us to a an investigative journalist who discovered the current Global Warming conference in Bonn (but hosted by Fiji) uses

At https://phys.org/print429517702.html ... Hawaii sits at the end of a chain of volcanoes running across the Pacific ocean floor. In the middle of this chain

Researchers extracted cores from the Chicxulub crater recently - see www.livescience.com/56914-dino-killing-asteroid-may-have-punctured-earth... ... It measures 110 miles across (180km) and is situated in Mexico's Yucatan peninsular.