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At https://phys.org/news/2022-10-ancient-humans-co-existence-modern-neanderthals.html ... quoting an article in Scientific Reports. What exactly are modern Neanderthals coexisting with ancient humans? Wrong way round in the title but

With the help of citizen scientists, astronomers have discovered a black hole firing a jet at another galaxy - see https://phys.org/news/2022-10-black-hole-jets-neighboring-galaxy.html ... the claim is

William sent in the link https://www.yahoo.com/news/ozone-hole-grows-still-shrinking-172501044.html ... according to the media the ozone hole over Antarctica grew this year, the third year in a row.

It seems that not only do we have mega-tsunamis generated by the dinosaur killing asteroid but a massive shaking of the earth, as well. What

The NASA DART mission to send a spacecraft to deliberately smash into an asteroid in order to find out if it could deflect it's orbit

At https://phys.org/news/2022-10-flips-galaxies-cosmic-web.html ... we are told that the alignment between galaxy spin and the large scale structure of the universe reveals the process by which

We have an interesting article at https://phys.org/news/2022-09-definitive-proof-elusive-sea-fingerprints.html ... which is said to provide data for future sea level changes as a result of global warming.

At https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2022/01/03/ned-nikolov-dispelling-the-milankovitch-myth/ ... there is a long post with comments by Ned Nikolov. The title is perhaps a little misleading as the Milankovitch calculations were

The miles wide asteroid that struck the earth at the K/Pg boundary event, leaving an imprint at Chicxulub, is now said to have triggered a

An interesting article from Radiocarbon journal volume 53:1 [2011] may have chronological implications. The article is mainly concerned with radiocarbon dates from the Middle Bronze

At https://phys.org/news/2022-09-lunar-glass-moon-asteroid-impacts.html ... which concerns a research paper in Science Advances - see https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abq2542 ... major impacts on earth were accompanied, very often, by smaller

Nuclear fusion is always just over the horizon, or just around the corner. It still is in spite of the latest breakthrough - see https://phys.org/news/2022-09-plasma.html 

Michael Rampino, in his book 'Cataclysm:  a new geology for the 21st century Columbia University Press:2017, compares Charles Darwin to Patrick Matthew. Darwin was a

William sent in the link https://the-past.com/feature/circles-of-stone-exploring-the-monuments-of-jomon-japan/ ... circles of stone - explaining the stone monuments of Jomon Japan. It coincides with an exhibition at the

At https://phys.org/news/2022-09-mexico-earthquake-triggers-tsunami-miles.html ... a 7.6 magnitude earthquake in Mexico triggered a seiche 1500 miles away, in a cave. A wave up to four feet in

I can remember my father talking about fossil plants he had seen as a teenager and young man working in a South Wales coal mine.

At https://spaceweather.com on Thursday the 15th September we learned that during a minor geomagnetic storm on February 4th, dozens of Starlink satellites fell out of

William sent in the link to https://www.yahoo.com/news/dinosaur-mummy-researchers-believe-found-214041437.html ... researchers in Canada have found what they believe to be a full dinosaur mummy, lodged in a

In the same issue of Current Archaeology 391 [October 2022], on page 12. 'Science Notes', we have a one page report on radiocarbon dating. See

In Current Archaeology 391 [October 2022] [see https://www.archaeology.co.uk ] there is an interesting piece on a new book, in Chris Gatling's Sherds column. In 'A