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At https://phys.org/news/2022-10-central-asia-key-region-human.html ... archaeologists are catching up with the geneticists. After the latter discovered the Denisovans living close to Neanderthals in central Asia a new

Sent in by William - go to https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/bizarre-near-earth-asteroid-spinning-162128067.html ...  a bizarre Near Earth asteroid is spinning faster and faster each year, we are told. The

This comes from the Chinese and Spanish scientists - see https://www.doi.org/10.1038/s41377-022-00979-2 ... and https://phys.org/news/2022-10-complex-maxwell-stress-tensor-theorem.html ... when an electromagnetic wave, such as a monochromatic plane wave,

An essay published by ATA Scientific Instruments concerns the difference between spectroscopy and spectrometry. Spectroscopy is the science of studying the interactions between molten and

Robert sent in another link. However, first see https://phys.org/news/2022-10-dinosaur-mummies-unusual.html ... which is derived from a research paper in PLoS ONE online journal https://www.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0275240 ... dinosaur

At https://spaceweather.com [October 18th and 19th 2022] ... the sun is currently blank and solar activity is at a low. For now. However, a powerful

A study in Geophysical Research Letters [2022], see https://www.doi.org/10.1029/2022GL099293 ... and https://phys.org/news/2022-10-tonga-volcano-eruption-life-rapid.html ... claims the submarine volcanic explosion in Tonga last January [2022] led to

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