In the News

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.

At https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/geology/the-bungle-bungles-towering-domes-in-the-australian-outback-that-contain-traces-of-the-earliest-life-forms-on-earth ...  this is presented as a geological oddity for others to peruse. The Bungle Bungles are rock domes - towering domes that form

At https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/01/250107194051.htm ... the Popo Agie is a rock formation in Wyoming that harbours lots of mangled animal remains mixed in with dinosaurs. It is

At https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/01/250115124453.htm ... ancient genomes reveal an Iron Age society centred on the female line of descent. Inheritance was apparently via the female of the

At https://www.sciencealert.com/3-years-after-jwsts-launch-heres-what-it-has-taught-us-about-the-universe .... 27th December 2024, 3 years after the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, we have a quick look at what has

The processes that bring gold up to the surface from deep in Earth's Mantle rely on the sulpher that bubbles beneath volcanoes. Hence, the fire

At https://phys.org/news/2024-12-ancient-genomes-word-indo-european.html ... a team of 91 researchers, mainly from the University of Copenhagen, has discovered an Indo European convergence between the eastern and the

At https://www.sciencealert.com/nasa-is-watching-a-vast-growing-anomaly-in-earths-magnetic-field ... apparently, Earth's magnetic field has an anomaly. Something not yet understood. A large region of lower magnetic intensity exists in the skies

Sent in by William this is a testimony to how cleverly some peoples brains work - even a long ways a way from the fireworks.

At https:/www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c24nzeqq112o ... some 200 dinosaur footprints made 166 million years ago, have been found criss crossing the limestone floor of a quarry in Oxfordshire.

At https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/12/241220133041.htm ... at a Neolithic site in Denmark, new research suggests grinding stones and grain were not, primarily, used to make bread, as one

Another cracker at https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/12/241218174832.htm ... The Deccan Traps in India are massive volcanic outpouring of magma. They have, in the past, been proposed as an

This is the headline at https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/12/241220133038.htm ... so it can't be pushing the universe apart. Whether that is lumpy or not. This is acording to

Another curious story - see https://phys.org/news/2024-12-uncovering-centaur-tracks-scientists-unique.html ... this one concerns Chiron, a centaur object that orbits between Jupiter and Neptune. They are called centaurs as

Robert sent in a number of links. For example,  https://www.livescience.com/space/nasa-solves-mystery-of-why-jupiters-io-is-so-volcanically-active ...  which immediately makes you wonder if the headline is too optimistic. According to new