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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

At https://phys.org/news/2023-06-extreme-seas-uk-ireland.html ... all that solar activity, CMEs battering our magnetosphere and leaking into the upper atmosphere, seems to have had an effect on the

At https://phys.org/news/2023-06-tonga-hunga-eruption-intense-lightning.html ... the January 2022 eruption of the Hunga volcano in Tonga continues to break records. It is now recognised it created a 'super-charged'

William sent in the link https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/electrifying-time-lapse-image-captures-165506515.html ... time lapse image captures 100 lightning bolts torching the sky over Turkey. The phenomena was captured by astro-photographer

At https://phys.org/news/2023-06-demystify-unusual-geminids-meteor-shower.html ... the claim is that most meteor showers are created when a comet emits a tail of ice and dust = a degassing

At https://phys.org/news/2023-06-walls-river-nile-reveal-ancient.html ... a huge network of stone walls along the River Nile,  in both Egypt and Sudan, reveal a long lived form of hydraulic

The upcoming El Nino is the focus of a report at https://phys.org/news/2023-06-el-nio-backthat-good-news.html ... but is it good news for all of us. The piece goes

During the last Ice Age, presumably the Late Glacial Maximum, massive ice bergs calved from the northern ice sheet and caused the weather in North

At https://spaceweather.com - over the last week or two of early June 2023 we have had solar bubbles puffing up the face of the Sun.

At https://phys.org/news/2023-06-didnt-big-collapse-giant-black.html ... why didn't the Big Bang collapse into a giant black hole? It is thought the latter are the remnants of a massive

William sent in this one. Britain fires up coal power station because of the hot weather - see https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/britain-fires-coal-plant-weather-185612922.html ...  it seems the National Grid

At https://phys.org/news/2023-06-seismic-convey-lithospheric-delamination-mechanism.html ... use of  seismic body waves in the South China lithosphere found anomalies which could be interpreted as lithospheric blocks at 90 km

This was an intriguing story, particularly as it seemed to upset the applecart of evolution by gradual progression, but also by reason nobody in the

At https://phys.org/news/2023-06-jet-streams-mars-magnetosheath.html ... just like the earth, mars has jet streams - in the magnetosheaf. It is faster and denser than its surroundings. .................................. UFOs