In the News

At https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/07/220718122232.htm ... astromoners, or some of them, are saying the Large Magellanic  Cloud has a defunct black hole as it doesn't appear to show

A bright comet in the inner solar system - and it swinging past Earth at the moment. Get out your binoculars. See https://phys.org/news/2022-07-k2-brightest-comet-solar-earth.html ... for

At https://phys.org/news/2022-07-arthur-stone-year-old-monument-king.html ... Arthur's Stone is a 5000 + years old Neolithic chambered tomb in Herefordshire. It is little more than a few stones sticking

At https://phys.org/news/2022-07-dna-ancient-population-southern-china.html ... human fossils from the Late Pleistocene in southern China have come up with a surprise. The genetics is published in Current Biology,

William sent in the link https://finance.yahoo.com/news/nasas-osiris-rex-bennu-finding-plastic-ball-pits-184718806.html ... NASAs Osiris Rex mission landed on the surface of asteroid Bennu in order to bring a sample back

At https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/07/220705112248.html  ... ESAs Rosetta Mission collected date from Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, between 2014 and 2016. Some of the data sent back, especially the dust samples,

At https://spaceweather.com of July 10th 2022. Back in 1962, the US military deployed a thermonuclear warhead 250 miles above the Pacific Ocean. It is known

Sent in by William - https://www.yahoo.com/news/near-perfect-30-000-old-172649386.html ... found by miners in the Yukon Klondike, a 30,000 year old baby woolly mammoth. It still has intact

The explosive eruption of the Hunga Tonga submarine volcano in January 2022 was usual in that it involved shooting a large amount of seawater into

The Tenoumer Crater is situated in the desert of Mauritania. It is 1.9 km wide and the bottom of the crater is covered in a

At https://phys.org/news/2022-06-canterbury-suburbs-home-britain-earliest.html ... archaeological excavations on the outskirts of Canterbury confirm the presence of early humans in Britain between 560,000 and 620,000 years ago. The

At https://www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2022/05/13/energy-mass-and-light/ ... an interesting piece by Matthew Hufner on science. He claims it is on the brink of a paradigm shift - with a

Sent in by Gary - https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-10945953/ ... and seems to complement the earlier post on David' Pratt's article from 2000. The  Paleogene comprises the Paleocene,

At https://www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2022/06/08/serious-issues-with-plate-tectonics/ ... concerns David Pratt's misgivings which he published in 2000. There are, apparently, multiple problems with the theory of Plate Tectonics and seafloor

At https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2022/06/19/the-sun-is-being-weird-it-could-be-because-were-looking-at-it-all-wrong/ ... which concerns the current solar cycle, 25, and its unexpected activity. Solar physicists got it wrong and so did global warming sceptics.

See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWW_mtihc1Q ...and you can now buy Don Scott's book from SIS.

Fossil fuels are used to  make all kinds of things from mobile phones to medicines, plastics, tents, clothes and synthetic fibres, amongst a lot of

William sent in the link to https://www.yahoo.com/news/stubborn-la-ni-looks-may-211430695.html ... La Nina is still lurking around as we enter the third year in a role. However, no

Kevin sent in the link to https://www.heritagedaily.com/2022/06/discovery-of-anglo-anglo-saxon-burials-of-national-significance/143860 ... archaeological investigations along the line of the high speed train route, HS2, have beamed in on a

An excavation in what was Kiev, now Kyiv, in the Ukraine, came across some interesting Viking period artifacts. The city began life as a sort