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At https://phys.org/news/2023-07-radiocarbon-dating-earth-environmental-glacial.html ... a floating tree ring chronology has been created by using 33 larch subfossil trees from Ravine, a site located in the Venetian

William sent in this link at https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/skyscraper-size-asteroid-flew-closer-212209206.html ... an asteroid the size of a 20 storey skyscraper flew close to the earth - at a

At https://www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2023/07/24/grose-valley-australia-2/ ... Garry Maxfield poses a problem that appears to represent a puzzle for mainstream geologists. It depends of course on how far you

See https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2023/07/18/climate-change-fostered-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-tibetan-empire-from-600-to-800-ad-researchers-find/ ... and the story can also be found at https://phys.org/news/2023-07-climate-fostered-fall-tibetan-empire.html ... a study by scientists from the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, the

William sent in the link https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/earth-tilted-31-5-inches-170000517.html ... It was always scientific dogma that the poles could not move yet here we have a story that

Interesting article at https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-physicist-who-bets-that-gravity-cant-be quantized-20230710/ ... Jonathan Oppenheim, a physicist at University College in London, suspects gravity cannot be understood via quantum mechanics. Theorists have

In the UK we had some nice summer weather in June, the month known in folklore as 'flaming June'. However, July has been mainly overcast,

Gary sent in the link https://www.sciencenews.org/article/viking-age-ancient-solar-flare-trade-archaeology ... trade from Ribe in Denmark has been dated as starting around 700AD. Glass beads, including beads manufactured in

At https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/07/23/ryan-maue-on-hunga-tonga-hunga-haapai-submarine-volcano/ ... new research on last year's vokcano off the coast of Tonga in the Pacific suggests 150 million metric tons, almost 40 trillion

If you want to know where the money comes from to fund climate alarmism, you might get a clue by reading the link at https://dailysceptic.org/2023/06/15/the-myth-of-big-oils-funding-of-climate-scepticism-vs-the-reality-of-big-greens-billions-driving-climate-alarmism/

At https://phys.org/news/2023-07-solar-astronomers-stars-sun-corona.html ... solar astronomers discover shooting stars on the solar corona. At https://spaceweather.com ... [July 4th 2023] we learn that a great sun spot,

At https://phys.org/news/2023-06-complex-organosulfur-molecules-comet-67p.html ... the Rosetta orbiter visited comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, back in 2015/2016. Data from dust has been analysed and scientists report the detection of large

A  couple of interesting posts on Phys Org regarding new papers published. Seems Wal Thornhill was perhaps on the ball when he said the new

William sent in the link to https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/solar-maximum-could-hit-us-070000837.html ... solar maximum is associated with the Sun's magnetic field becoming tangled, and eventually it reverses polarity. Solar

Robert sent in the link https://www.livescience.com/animals/extinct-species/deadly-cyclone-unearths-fossils-of-giant-marine-creatures-that-lived-80-million-years-ago ... with the comment, the fossils appear to be from at least two different groups of marine reptiles. What

At https://phys.org/news/2023-06-intriguing-earthquakes-cosmic.html ... there is a clear statistical correlation between global seismic activity and changes in the intensity of cosmic radiation recorded at the surface

At  https://www.dnaweekly.com/blog/a-map-of-europe-based-on-haplogroups/ ... the map at the link shows the genetic composition of the countries of Europe - and how migration into the continent has

Robert also sent in the link to https://www.livescience.com/health/neuroscience/mysterious-spiral-signals-in-the-human-brain-could-be-key-to-our-cognition ... swirls across the outer layer of the brain might be used to link different parts of

Robert also posted a link to https://phys.org/news/2023-06-satellite-captures-carbon-dioxide-aurora.html ... in a new study in Geophysical Research Letters scientists have been looking at global observation of aurora

Robert sent in this excellent link - and well worth checking out. See https://vredefortmeteoritesminerals.com/abstract.html ... and you can download the full version at the link