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At https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/plants/cairo-fossil-forest-the-oldest-forest-in-north-america-with-385-million-year-old-trees ... we have the Cairo Forest - nuit nowhere near Egypt. It is located in Upper New York State. It is also estimated

How do you preserve a spider's web in amber? At https://dailygalaxy.com/2025/09/they-found-spider-web-perfectly-intact/ ... the amber comes from Ecuador. Not in the mountains but in the Amazonian

At https://dailygalaxy.com/2025/09/footprints-emerge-sands-shouldnt-exist/  ... in the western Nefud Desert of Arabia an interesting discovery of human footprints. They appear to date back to the end of

Mainstream has been consistent in their opposition to the idea the silverpit crater in the North Sea was the result of a space rock. They 

The Thunderbolts people have been rattling on about electric comets now for a number of years, yet nothing dramatic has shown up. However, we might

At https://phys.org/news/2025-09-volcanoes-untangle-evolution-humans.html ... a rather hopeful headline. Volcanoes untangle evolution of humans. In reality, they do very little apart from allowing mainstream to construct some

The coelacanth, the famous prehistoric fish that was brought up in a fishing net  in 1938, was long thought to be extinct until that fateful

At https://phys.org/news/2025-09-evidence-cosmic-impact-classic-clovis.html ... it seems the Younger Dryas impact story is still getting published. Evidence is continuously sought in order to counter the establishment dislike

At https://phys.org/news/2025-09-death-dinosaurs-reengineered-earth.html ... The basics of the argument in this research paper is that the disappearance of the dinosaurs led to a re-engineering of the

At https://phys.org/news/2025-09-xrism-reveals-sluggish-neutron-star.html ... the X-Ray Imaging Specroscopy Mission [XRISM] has revealed there is an unexpected difference between the powerful wind launched around a neutron star

According to Robert the mainstream don't like Sabine Hossenfelder's ideas. Normally, they ignore such people but it seems her university has cancelled her.  She's gone.

At last, a bit of realism creeping into the Out of Africa debate. At https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/human-evolution/it-makes-no-sense-to-say-there-was-only-one-origin-of-homo-sapiens-how-the-evolutionary-record-of-asia-is-complicating-what-we-know-about-our-species ... here we are told the story of our ancient

At https://phys.org/news/2025-09-mission-pickup-ions-solar-earth.html .... do we really understand the amount of energy the solar wind throws at the Earth's magnetosphere? The latter is Earth's defence system

At https://phys.org/news/2025-09-electricity-plays-role-body-cell.html ... There is a lot of electricity in the universe. It plays a significant role in life on Earth. At the link above

At https://phys.org/news/2025-09-newly-dated-million-year-dinosaur.html ... we have an interesting background story, in that the focus of the article is on the dating of some dinosaur eggs  but

At https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/geology/the-geology-that-holds-up-the-himalayas-is-not-what-we-thought-scientists-discover .... this piece has a revealing sentence. For a century the prevailing theory has been that a collision between Asia and India led

At https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/human-evolution/dna-has-an-expiration-date-but-proteins-are-revealing-secrets-about-our-ancient-anetors we never-thought-possible ...  DNA has an expiration date because it gradually degrades. It is calculated to completely disappear after about 7 million years.

At https://dailygalaxy.com/2025/08/black-hole-waking-after-billions-of-years/ ... astronomers claim to have spied a black hole in the act of awaking from a long slumber. What they actually saw were

At https://dailygalaxy.com/2025/09/chinese-submersible-craters-pacificc-ocean/ .... a Chinese submersible has plotted a field of massive craters in the Pacific, teeming with hydrogen feeding life forms. The hydrogen itself

At https://dailygalaxy.com/2025/09/voyager-1-just-survived-50000c-in-space/ ... NASAs Voyager One is now just behind the solar system's heliopause. Temperatures are thought to skyrocket to 50,000 celsius or thereabouts -