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This one is interesting - if only that it begins with an assumption, nuclear activity is at the heart of the sun and affects all

Clays are formed by water action. You can say it is meltwater from draining ice sheets or tsunami like waves pouring over the surface of

At http://phys.org/print392535290.html ... the Rosetta mission's dust analysing instrument has found carbon in a more complex from than expected, according to a paper in Nature

At www.spaceweather.com (Sept 9th 2016) an asteroid buzzed the earth and then headed towards the moon - passing by just 25,000 miles away. It came

   ... A cache of 180 Roman lead sling bullets has been unearthed at Burnswark near Lockerbie in Dumfries. Burnswark is a flat topped hill

At www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/archaeological-evidence-of-the-ki... .... concerns an archaeological investigation of the Elah Valley under the wing of Yosef Garfinkel. In the Bible this was the location of

William Thompson has prepared a list of electric universe concepts in the works of Donald Patten. These include references to flaming arrows, thunderbolts, celestial arrows,

This one is fascinating. Ceres, the dwarf planet currently being visited by the Dawn Mission spacecraft has a volcanic dome rising near what is thought

At www.popularmechanics.com/space/a22619/earth-narrowly-missed-by-asteroid/ ... is another link provided by William Thompson. This concerns a small cosmic body that went unseen until it was one quarter of

William Thompson provided a nice link to an article by John A Eddy in Science journal 192 (4245) June 18th 1976, that is still worthwhile

At http://phys.org/print391942311.html ... the world's oldest fossils have been found in Greenland - going back 3700 million years ago (or 3.7 billion years ago) which

Both WISE and FERMI have revealed a correlation in emissions from a black hole that is so wide it is detectable on both infra red

The image of Jupiter's north pole has been released by NASA - www.nasa.gov/image-feature/jpl/pia21032/jupiter-down-under ... and it seems to show hot spots at the poles ....

At http://phys.org/print358186778.html ... sun spot numbers have come up again recently with scientists realising activity on the Sun may affect earth's climate and should be

At http://phys.org/print391425744.html ... the Great Barrrier Reef has grown in size due to findings by the Australian Navy. They have discovered a massive extension of

At www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-37194266 ... evidence of an assault on a Scottish hill fort by the Romans has been found - at Burnswark. The fort, or ditched

It seems like Mesolithic foragers were consuming domesticated cereals  such as wheat and barley long before the early farming package reached the Balkans or eastern

Gary Gilligan forwarded the link www.newscientist.com/article/2101518-giant-ancient-supervolcanoes-threw-... ... and www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3564649/the-oldest-crystal-Earth... ... two different stories, one about volcanoes and the other concerning impact phenomena but quite similar

At www.spaceweather.com August 29th 2016 ... the 'Earth to Sky Calculus' experiment (using helium filled balloons) has been monitoring cosmic rays in the stratosphere above

Fossil whales in the Ica Desert of Peru - in sedimentary rocks dating 9 million years ago .... .... go to http://phys.org/print391254364.html ....