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Astronomers have discovered water vapour exists in the disc around a young star - at the point planets MAY be forming. Water MAY play a

At https://www.livescience.com/animals/mind-boggling-deep-sea-expedition-uncovers-100-new-species-and-a-gigantic-underwater-mountain ... down in the deep sea off the coast of Chile, over a hundred previously unknown marine creatures have been found, along with

At https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/02/240207120432.htm ... a new study highlights a cultural evolution that took place approximately 50 to 40,000 years ago - coinciding with a dispersal of

At https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00489-8 ... mapping the universe.  The eROSITA telescope has been used to reconctruct 9 billion years of cosmic evolution - by tracing the X-ray

William sent in the link to an MSN science story - NASAs DART spacecraft impact may have caused the Dimorphos asteroid to remarkably reform. Instead

At https://www.livescience.com/space/cosmology/james-webb-telescope-finds-ancient-galaxy-larger-than-our-milky-way-and-its-threatening-to-upend-cosmology ... consensus is that the first galaxies formed around giant haloes of dark matter. However, this is probably a quite recent consensus as

Gary sent in the link https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13086599/ ... a Roman camp unearthed near Armageddon, otherwise known as Megiddo, has excited the media it would seem. It

At https://www.space.com/nasa-voyager-spacecraft-mission-deep-space ...  seems an odd headline. NASAs Voyager One spacecraft isn't doing so well, we are told. For the last couple of months engineers

At https://www.sciencenews.org/article/south-american-patagonia-cave-paintings-surprisingly-old ... Patagonian cave paintings may have helped transmit cultural information from around 8200 years ago. Patagonia straddles down the eastern side of South

At https://bigthink.com/life/fossil.eukaryote-multicellular-life/ ... Chinese scientists Maoyan Zhu, has reported the discovery of a 1.63 billion years old fossil that will re-write the evolutionary history of

At https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/bizarre-magnetic-anomaly-discovered-deep-below-new-zealands-lake-rotorua ... Lake Rotorua sits in the crater of a dormant volcano and has been mapped, or 68% of it, in detail. This has

It is always interesting to know how the minds of scientists work and what inhibitive ideas are not allowed. Catastrophism is obviously one of them

At https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/11000-year-old-submerged-stone-wall-discovered-off-germany-was-once-used-to-trap-reindeer ... It is probably guesswork that it was used to trap reindeer but what other animal  could it have been - red deer

Sent in by William - a link to an MSN story on the Sun's magnetic flip halfway through our current solar cycle. The last one

The Iceland volcano has sparked back into life for the third time since roughly December of last year - see https://livescience.com/planet-earth/volcanos/iceland-volcano-erupts-for-3rd-time-triggering-lava-fountains-over-200-feet-tall ... the Icelandic volcano,

I couldn't resist the title. Not planets but comets and asteroids breaking up or smashing each other about. Let's begin at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/32---phaethon ... which is

At https://www.livescience.com/animals/sharks/325-million-year-old-shark-graveyard-discovered-deep-within-mammoth-cave-harbors-new-fossilized-species ... at Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky two new shark species that lived 325 million years ago on the geological column have

At https://www.livescience.com/space/black-holes/event-horizon-telescope-spies-gargantuan-energy-jets-erupting-from-nearby-supermassive-black-hole ... The Event Horizon Telescope has witnessed a 'gargantuan' burst of energy erupting from a supermassive black hole. What is really meant is

This is now a perennial update since the Clovis dam was breached not so long ago. Fourteen projectile points from Coopers Ferry in Idaho have

The paper in the title has just been published in Physics Essays 37, January 2024, Alasdair Beal .. ISSN 0836-1398 [print] and 2371-2236 [online]. Special