In the News

At https://phys.org/news/2023-03-major-north-american-oil-source.html ... which is a reference to the Bakken shale formation that lies beneath a stretch of North Americ, from North Dakota into Canada.

At https://phys.org/news/2023-03-universe-dark-big.html ... we have the headline,  'The universe may have started with a dark big bang' - but does that mean an invisible explosion?

Water, water, everywhere ... in the universe. At https://phys.org/news/2023-03-venus-oceans-life-earth.html ... Venus is currently a planet which is incredibly hot at the surface. It had, or

Wal Thornhill died a few weeks ago and tributes have been popping up. In this instance the link here is to a forum piece on

At https://phys.org/news/2023-02-archaeologists-homes-europe-monument-makers.html ... French archaeologists have found where the megalith builders lived - when not humping big stones around. Megalithic buildings first appear in a

Robert sent in this one, https://phys.org/news/2023-02-solar-gained-super-earth.html ... which is basically, what would happen in the solar system if it gained a super earth, a modeling

At https://phys.org/news/2023-02-ryugu-asteroid-sample-reveals-organic-rich.html ... samples from the Ryugu asteroid, collected by Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft, are organic rich. This sample was shared with US researchers and we

William setin the link to https://www.yahoo.com/news/webb-telescope-spots-six-galaxies-192633089.html ... and comments - so much for theory. We must change our assumptions or we will get nowhere. The

At https://phys.org/news/2023-02-radiocarbon-method-interaction-homo-sapiens.html ... the story is about yet another switch in C14 methodology - and no doubt a suite of new dates. Or am I

At https://phys.org/news/2023-02-asteroid-scientists-rare-opportunity.html ... the asteroid Apophis was the subject of Nicholas Costa's book, Adam to Apophis, and its near fly by in 2029 and 2036,

At https://phys.org/news/2023-02-hundreds-high-redshift-quasars.html ... astronomers are reporting the discovery of over 400 new high red shift quasars using the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument [DESI]. The findings

In between WW1 and 2 telegraph lines on the floor of the Atlantic were being snapped, by what are called turbidity currents. Scientists became aware

Ashley King of the Natural History Museum in London is doing the round of the talk circuit. During lockdown, on 20th February 2021, in the

At https://phys.org/news/2023-02-fossil-discovery-reveals-complex-ecosystems.html ... in this piece we are at the Permian-Triassic boundary event, and its accompanying mass extinction of life. Some 80 per cent of

At https://phys.org/news/2023-02-space-earth-sun-shield.html ... it seems some Dr Strangeloves are trying to prime Joe Public into an awful experiment - turning our weather cold. The claim

a couple of post at https://spaceweather.com ... On the 11th February [2023] sunspot AR3217 has a 'beta-gamma delts' magnetic field that hosts enough energy for

The headline reads, scientists detect a molten rock layer hidden beneath earth's tectonic plates - see https://phys.org/news/2023-02-scientists-molten-layer-hidden-earth.html ... I wonder why they said 'tectonic plates'

At https://phys.org/news/2023-02-prehistoric-human-migration-southeast-asia.html ... stating the obvious, we might say. Sundaland sunk beneath the waves and people migrated. Sundaland must have been occupied by humans but

This story is at https://spaceweather.com ... February 8th, 2023. Tides are associated with the rise and  fall of ocean waters in reponse to the gravitational

At https://phys.org/news/2023-02-remapping-superhighways-australians-reveals-year.html ... sophisticated models combine with recent improvements in demography and wayfinding based on geographic inferences, show the scale of the challenge faced by