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At https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/03/17/study-extensive-ice-cap-once-cove... ... South Georgia achieved fame in the 1970s when it became involved in the Falklands war. In this instance a paper in Nature

William sent in a link to a video of catastrophic moving water, some 2 million cubic metres spilling down towards the village of Chukhung in

Look at the links from the earlier post on Fossils (yesterday). At https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/03/170308145343.htm ... we find the ancient fish fossil found in southern China probably

Upsetting Einstein's 'theory of gravity' is the headline at www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2017/03/andromeda-once-flew-past-our-milky... ... This follows research at the University of St Andrews (and elsewhere in Europe as

On the same theme as the piece a few days ago on carbon dioxide, William sent the following link to a piece published in the

At https://phys.org/print408881453.html ... getting to the crust of the early earth is not easy as it has been overlain with a raft of later layers

Robert sent in the link, http://crev.info/2017/03/rethinking-fossils/ ... where we have more new fossil discoveries that appear to be counter to uniformitarianism. The first batch of

At https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2017/03/15/auroras-affect-sat-nav-system... ... This is an interesting one as aurora are produced when gas particles in the Earth's atmosphere collide with charged particles emitted from

At https://phys.org/print408702531.html ... we have a strange paper here - but useful in the sense it provides another dimension to what is normally pushed our

More on the feeding habits of black holes. This one is choking on the amount of material in its gullet - see https://phys.org/print408783134.html ... The

At www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4312926/Mysterious-space-object-... ... straight from the horses teeth, the source that Wikipedia refuses to accept as reliable. As they don't accept SIS as a serious

Wiki has a good piece on the Piora Oscillation, the official name for the period of global cooling that followed on from the 3200BC event.

At http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/scott-pruitt-is-absolutely-right-a... ... link sent in by William. One of Trump's fake news channels seems to have come up trumps by publishing this piece of

The latest piece of modelling a black hole is said to show a black hole can grow rapidly at the centre of a host galaxy

At https://phys.org/print408108341.html ... are impact craters laid down at random or is there a pattern. Do they occur periodically? This study suggests it is random.

Ava is the name given to a woman buried near Wick in northern Scotland over 4000 years ago. Beside her remains archaeologists found a beaker

At https://phys.org/print408280130.html ... a new study in Science Reports (March 9th) brings the Younger Dryas Impact Theory back to life after a couple of articles

At https://anthropology.net/2017/03/09/neanderthals-used-penicillin-and-asp... ... this story has been around for a week or so (see also https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2017/03/dental-plaque-dna-... ) ... a microbiologist at the University of Adelaide

At https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2017/03/aboriginal-hair-sh... ... DNA derived from hair samples taken early last century have been analysed for MtDNA and they are said to show they have

The epic wave is greater by far than the rogue wave (see yesterday), by many orders of magnitude. At the southern end of Madagascar (Malagasy)