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Water in Space
5 March 2024 Astronomy, cosmologyAstronomers have discovered water vapour exists in the disc around a young star - at the point planets MAY be forming. Water MAY play a
Deep Sea Expedition
2 March 2024 GeologyAt https://www.livescience.com/animals/mind-boggling-deep-sea-expedition-uncovers-100-new-species-and-a-gigantic-underwater-mountain ... down in the deep sea off the coast of Chile, over a hundred previously unknown marine creatures have been found, along with
Cultural Evolution and Demise of Neanderthals
2 March 2024 Anthropology, Biology, Genetics, GeologyAt https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/02/240207120432.htm ... a new study highlights a cultural evolution that took place approximately 50 to 40,000 years ago - coinciding with a dispersal of
eROSITA telescope
2 March 2024 Astronomy, cosmologyAt https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00489-8 ... mapping the universe. The eROSITA telescope has been used to reconctruct 9 billion years of cosmic evolution - by tracing the X-ray
Dimorphos Asteroid
2 March 2024 AstronomyWilliam sent in the link to an MSN science story - NASAs DART spacecraft impact may have caused the Dimorphos asteroid to remarkably reform. Instead
James Webb Reveals
26 February 2024 Astronomy, cosmologyAt https://www.livescience.com/space/cosmology/james-webb-telescope-finds-ancient-galaxy-larger-than-our-milky-way-and-its-threatening-to-upend-cosmology ... consensus is that the first galaxies formed around giant haloes of dark matter. However, this is probably a quite recent consensus as
Megiddo and the Romans
24 February 2024 ArchaeologyGary sent in the link https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13086599/ ... a Roman camp unearthed near Armageddon, otherwise known as Megiddo, has excited the media it would seem. It
Voyager One
24 February 2024 AstronomyAt https://www.space.com/nasa-voyager-spacecraft-mission-deep-space ... seems an odd headline. NASAs Voyager One spacecraft isn't doing so well, we are told. For the last couple of months engineers
Cave Paintings Patagonia
16 February 2024 Archaeology, Catastrophism, MythologyAt https://www.sciencenews.org/article/south-american-patagonia-cave-paintings-surprisingly-old ... Patagonian cave paintings may have helped transmit cultural information from around 8200 years ago. Patagonia straddles down the eastern side of South
Qingshania magnifica
16 February 2024 Biology, Geology, PalaeontologyAt https://bigthink.com/life/fossil.eukaryote-multicellular-life/ ... Chinese scientists Maoyan Zhu, has reported the discovery of a 1.63 billion years old fossil that will re-write the evolutionary history of
Lake Rotorua
16 February 2024 Electromagnetism, GeologyAt https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/bizarre-magnetic-anomaly-discovered-deep-below-new-zealands-lake-rotorua ... Lake Rotorua sits in the crater of a dormant volcano and has been mapped, or 68% of it, in detail. This has
How Cosmologists Think
15 February 2024 Astronomy, cosmology, Inside scienceIt is always interesting to know how the minds of scientists work and what inhibitive ideas are not allowed. Catastrophism is obviously one of them
Mesolithic Wall in North Sea
15 February 2024 ArchaeologyAt https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/11000-year-old-submerged-stone-wall-discovered-off-germany-was-once-used-to-trap-reindeer ... It is probably guesswork that it was used to trap reindeer but what other animal could it have been - red deer
Flipping the Poles
13 February 2024 Astronomy, ElectromagnetismSent in by William - a link to an MSN story on the Sun's magnetic flip halfway through our current solar cycle. The last one
Volcanoes
11 February 2024 Catastrophism, Geology, Plate TectonicsThe Iceland volcano has sparked back into life for the third time since roughly December of last year - see https://livescience.com/planet-earth/volcanos/iceland-volcano-erupts-for-3rd-time-triggering-lava-fountains-over-200-feet-tall ... the Icelandic volcano,
The Geminids and Worlds in Collision
11 February 2024 Astronomy, Catastrophism, GeologyI couldn't resist the title. Not planets but comets and asteroids breaking up or smashing each other about. Let's begin at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/32---phaethon ... which is
Shark Graveyard
10 February 2024 Biology, Catastrophism, Evolution, GeologyAt https://www.livescience.com/animals/sharks/325-million-year-old-shark-graveyard-discovered-deep-within-mammoth-cave-harbors-new-fossilized-species ... at Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky two new shark species that lived 325 million years ago on the geological column have
Galactic Centre Ejections
10 February 2024 Astronomy, ElectromagnetismAt https://www.livescience.com/space/black-holes/event-horizon-telescope-spies-gargantuan-energy-jets-erupting-from-nearby-supermassive-black-hole ... The Event Horizon Telescope has witnessed a 'gargantuan' burst of energy erupting from a supermassive black hole. What is really meant is
Pre Clovis Settlement
9 February 2024 Ancient history, Anthropology, DatingThis is now a perennial update since the Clovis dam was breached not so long ago. Fourteen projectile points from Coopers Ferry in Idaho have
Special Relativity and the Lorentz Equations: errors in Einstein's 1905 paper
31 January 2024 PhysicsThe paper in the title has just been published in Physics Essays 37, January 2024, Alasdair Beal .. ISSN 0836-1398 [print] and 2371-2236 [online]. Special