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At https://www.quantamagazine.org/two-students-unravel-a-widely-believed-math-conjecture-20230810/ ... the work was posted at the pre-print server https://arxiv.org ... with the purpose of encouraging other mathematicians to look at it and

The story is at https://phys.org/news/2023-08-paleoaltimetry-assumptions-formation-himalayas.html ... and https://scitechdaily.com/600-million-year-old-time-capsule-new-discoveries-from-the-himalayas-shed-light-on-earths-past ... which was sent in by Gary. A new paper in Nature Geoscience has measured historic altitudes

The furore around Fermilab's latest findings is typified by this BBC link - https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-66407099 ... Pallab Ghosh reported on a recent finding at Fermilab in

William sent in the link https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/largest-asteroid-impact-crater-earth-120000726.html ... which is about verbatim to  https://phys.org/news/2023-08-evidence-world-largest-asteroid-impact.html ... the Deniliquin structure recently found in New South Wales. It is

A https://spaceweather.com ... [August 17th 2023] .... Japanese astronomer Hideo Nishimura, discovered a new comet, currently visible by small telescope in the Gemini constellation. It

At https://phys.org/news/2023-08-sacred-astronomical-observatory-middle-neolithic.html ... the Goseck circular earthwork enclosure  looks like a forerunner to Stonehenge - without the stones. You may note the title has -

At https://phys.org/news/2023-08-huge-events-dominated-evolution-climate.html ... how to smooth out huge upheavals in the geological record - by using climate change to explain punctuated equilibrium in evolution. These

At https://phys.org/news/2023-08-scientists-climate-el-nino-factors.html ... some scientists, rather than continuing to ignore most of the hyperventilation by activists, are more ready to show a bit of resistance

At https://phys.org/news/2023-08-archaeologists-refute-comet-destroyed-hopewell.html ... a group of archaeologists, it seems, have refuted the idea that a  comet, but probably a meteor, was responsible for the demise

Excellent article by Marinus van der Sluijs at https://www.thunderbolts.info/2023/08/01/the-sun-man-3/ ... which concerns the squatting man image that crops up all over the place, especially in

An update on the Winchcombe meteor that landed on the driveway of a house in Winchcombe in Gloucestershire. It is currently housed in the Natural

William sent in the link https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/massive-solar-explosion-felt-earth-181455829.html ... On October 28th 2021, a huge burst of plasma and magnetised particles erupted from the Sun. The solar

The Chinese have never been keen on the Out of Africa theory, regarding it as region limited - as far as research. Most of the

The Evershed Effect is described at https://spaceweather.com ... of August 4th 2023. Sucking plasma out of sunspots, is one way to describe it. Material flying

At https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/07/31/what-nasa-and-the-european-space-agency-are-admitting-but-the-media-are-failing-to-report-about-our-current-heat-wave/ ... a wwarm July in some parts of the world, not only in eastern North America but in Australia and the southern hemisphere.

Robert sent in the link https://www.livescience.com/animals/whales/this-colossal-extinct-whale-was-the-heaviest-animal-to-ever-live ... which is more about eye capturing the reader than about reality. The weight is an estimate and the

Over at https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2023/08/04/record-breaking-detection-of-solar-photons/ ... the Sun is more surprising than we hitherto knew. It has long been known that cosmic rays go up when solar

At https://spaceweather.com ... [see posts on August 3rd and 4th] ... a bright fireball was seen over the eastern side of the US. Sonic booms

It may well be fundamental to mainstream geological thinking but to the man in the street it doesn't mean very much is actualy different. Basically,

Robert sent in the link https://www.livescience.com/space/comets/city-size-comet-headed-toward-earth-grows-horns-after-massive-volcanic-eruption .... with the comment, a really poor description of what comets actually are and how they interact with their