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Not a chcolate egg but a dinosaur egg  recently unearthed in Argentina's Rio Negro region - see https://dailygalaxy.com/2025/11/perfectly-intact-fossilized-dinosaur-egg/ ... paleontologists in Argentina have unearthed a

At https://spaceweather.com .. on the 2nd of Novermber, we have another comet - C/2025K1, which has just survived perihelion. It was thought it might disintegrate

At https://dailygalaxy.com/2025/11/nasa-voyager-finds-blazing-wall-of-fire/ ... NASAs Voyager 1 and 2 are still beaming back information. They are somewhere within, or without. the boundary of our solar  system.

At https://dailygalaxy.com/2025/10/what-scientists-just-uncovered-in-the-mayan-calendar-is-far-more-advanced-than-all-modern-calculations/ ... the headline is bulky and ignores the fact that so called junk science has been telling everyone for decades that the Mayan

At https://dailygalaxy.com/2025/10/50000-year-old-fossil-discovery-reveals-neanderthals-had-a-much-richer-diet-than-science-ever-believed/ ... this follows on from previous research that seemed to point to a high plant intake in their diet. The Neanderthal cave man

At https://www.livescience.com/animals/extinct-species/ancient-frosty-rhino-from-canadas-high-arctic-rewrites-what-scientists-thought-they-knew-about-the-north-atlantic-land-bridge ... a long headline. The researchers have gained an insight into rhinoceros evolution and the longevity of the North Atlantic land bridge. This

At https://phys.org/news/2025-10-scientists-explanation-oddball-rich-exoplanets.html ... another interesting research paper. It skirts around the mainstream narrative but manages to get across a different way of looking at the

At https://spaceweather.com ... on October 31st we learnt that Earth was passing through a stream of slow moving Halloween fireballs. This is the origin of

At https://dailygalaxy.com/2025/10/scientists-found-dinosaur-tail-amber/ ... a small piece from a dinosaur tail, complete with bones, soft tissue, and feathers, has been discovered in amber from Myanmar [formerly

At https://phys.org/news/2025-10-scientists-elusive-solar-power-sun.html ... solar physicists, via astronomers, have found evidence of small scale torsional Alfven waves in the Sun's corona. These magnetic waves, or electro-magnetic

At https://phys.org/news/2025-10-island-ancient-rifting-reshaped-madagascar.html ... Madagascar's landscape tells a geological story, we are told. Ancient rifting and tilting of its landscape sculpted its dramatic topography. Madagascar also

Dating pharaoh Ahmose, first king of dynasty 18 - by c14 methodology. At https://phys.org/news/2025-10-radiocarbon-dating-egyptian-artifacts-thera.html ... this is a peculiar one that we may suppose will

Robert sent in a couple of links worth posting. I'll be brief but the impetus came from reading https://phys.org/news/2025-10-extreme-jet-streams-giant-planets.html ... which is a modeling study.

It may not have happened - in spite of texts telling a tale of a grand epidemic in the Bronze age world. At https://phys.org/news/2025-10-ancient-egyptian-plague-akhetaten.html ...

At https://phys.org/news/2025-10-north-american-ice-sheets-drove.html ... a research paper with some questions we might flag. We are told  melting ice sheets in North America played a greater role

At https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_Rhine_Graben ... the Upper Rhine Plain is a rift valley formation - 220 miles in length. It is, in places. 50 km in width.

At https://dailygalaxy.com/2025/10/intact-egg-still-contains-liquid/ ... archaeologists in Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire have unearthed a Roman period egg. Not only has it survived intact but it also still contains

At https://dailygalaxy.com/2025/10/tokyo-sized-interstellar-object-3i-atlas-emits-rare-metal-alloy-never-observed-in-nature-harvard-says/.... Comet 31/ATLAS is even odder than previously thought, it would seem. Although it behaves like other interstellar interlopers, but not entirely so, such

At https://phys.org/news/2025-10-tsunamis-gps-satellites.html ... tsunami waves have recently come under investigation. I have a book on the subject - which is basically an early example of

At https://phys.org/news/2025-10-discovery-stone-megastructures-view-prehistoric.html ... LiDAR has proved extremely useful when seeking out prehistoric structures and enclosures. In the UK it has been used to discover activity