In the News

At https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/02/250218113650.htm ... the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way galaxy flickers and flares - constantly bubbling with light. This discovery

Robert sent in two link. At https://phys.org/news/2025-02-discovery-huge-amounts-helium-earth.html .... but see also the arXiv server at https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2405.11810 ... where researchers from Japan and Taiwan have discovered

Robert sent in a link to two different videos. I have no view on the content although it is probably true to say that science,

This was written by RNIyengar a professor of civil engineering in Bangalore. It seems to describe not just an additional Sun that was visible coming

At https://phys.org/news/2025-02-underwater-fossil-bed-collectors-rare.html ... hundreds of mammal fossils have been recovered from the Steinhatches River in Florida, dating back to around half a million years ago.

I have wondered how the Chicxulub asteroid impact could have generated a large tidal wave that swept up through the central parts of North America

NCGT Journal of March 2014 - see www.ncgtjournal.com ...  had a research paper by Robert Johnson, SIS member and author ... 'massive solar eruptions and

Up to the eruption of Mount St Helens the major effect of volcanic blow outs on the transparency of the atmosphere was down to dust

William sent in the link https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/35-000-mph-speeding-rocks-ripped-2-2-mile-deep-canyons-on-moon-in-10-minutes/ar-AA1yrGM0 ... but see also https://phys.org/news/2025-02-ancient-asteroid-grand-canyons-moon.html ... an asteroid slammed into the Moon, long long ago, and carved out two

At http://physorg.com/news/2011-03-mystery-ocean-sediment.html ... I haven't seen much on further research on this but it is worth airing again the original missive. Research by an international

Two posts at https://spaceweather.com ... are interesting. On January 28th we have the Sun near spotless but on the 30th a hole in the Sun's

William sent in a link to a post at MSN. I've found the same story at https://www.livescience.com/space/asteroids/city-killer-asteroid-has-a-1-in-83-chance-of-smashing-into-earth-in-2032-nasa-says ... the asteroid, 2024YR4, was detected by NASAs

An interesting article at https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/01/250102162311.htm .. a new study investigating ancient methane trapped in Antarctic ice cores suggests global increases in wildfire activity coincide with

At https://www.edition.cnn.com/2025/01/17/science/dark-oxygen-research/index.html ... or https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-024-01480-8 ... metallic rocks on the ocean bed are apparently producing oxygen. Where no sunlight can penetrate. Early research showed that

At https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/01/250116134101.htm ... we are told that around 2900BC, Neolithic people in Denmark 'sacrificed' hundeds of stones engraved with sun and field motifs. Archaeologists now

A new study provides strong evidence that the refilling of the Mediterranean Sea involved a collossal megaflood. It brought an end to the period known

At https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/01/250121162048.htm ... 'astronomers thought they understood fast radio bursts. A recent one calls that into question.' This is the headline, or title, at the

This one is grounded in the earth - or below the waves of the North Sea. At https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/rivers-oceans/giant-ice-age-landforms-discovered-deep-beneath-north-sea-revealed-in-amazing-detail ... it seems the ocean bottom imaging

William also sent in the link https://msn.com/en-us/news/technology/researchers-discover-piece-of-an-ancient-planet-buried-deep-within-the-earth/ar-AA1xArkK ... this press release seems to be doing the round of media sources at the moment without being

The headline at the link - the universe is expanding  faster than physics can explain. The cosmic crisis continues. This was sent in by William.