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At https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/06/220616194716.htm ... astronomers have identified five examples of a new class of stellar system. They are not  quite galaxies and only exist in isolation.

At https://phys.org/news/2022-06-turkish-hilltop-civilisation-began.html ... the name of Gobekli Tepe, in Turkish, has the meaning of 'potbelly hill', and is one of the most important archaeological sites

This story is at https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/06/220610120222.htm ... black holes, by their nature, are invisible, unless they are surrounded by an accretion disc, we are told. Astronomers

At https://phys.org/news/2022-06-asteroid-samples-clues-life-japan.html ... the Japanese mission to the asteroid Ryugu in 2020 is releasing some of its findings. It brought back samples from the surface

Paul sent in a link to this story but see https://phys.org/news/2022-06-earth-feet-core-oscillates.html ... the earth's inner core oscillates. This contradicts previously accepted models that claimed it

At https://phys.org/news/2022-05-jupiter-inhomogeneous-metallicity-clues.html ... Gary sent in a link but this story is easier to read at PhysOrg. Jupiter's gaseous envelope doesn't have a homogeneous distribution.

At https://phys.org/news/2022-06-strange-radio.html ... concerns the source of very active repeating fast radio bursts, and a persistent radion emission between those bursts. The scientists find this

At https://phys.org/news/2022-06-pre-historic-wallacea-pot-human-genetic.html ... the gist of this story is that hunter-gatherer genes have just about disappeared, possibly because of the long elapse of time since

Back in 2016  there were thousands of earthquakes near a small island between Madagascar and Africa, part of the Comoro Islands and French territory. In

At https://phys.org/news/2022-06-earth-magnetic-poles-flip.html ... we are told that the earth's magnetic poles are not likely to flip any time soon. The emergence of a mysterious area

At https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/06/220607120927.htm ... clouds of ultraviolet particles can rotate around black holes. Hence, scientists might be able to use them to catalogue gravitational waves emitted

At https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2022/05/29/weathers-unwanted-guest-nasty-la-nina-keeps-popping-up-confounding-climate-modellers/ ... and see also https://tallbloke.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/lanina-winter.png ... I quote, 'when observations show modelers the opposite of what their best computer model simulations say should

Mars  once ran red with rivers - see https://phys.org/news/2022-05-mars-unusual.html ... and https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2022/05/31/why-did-mars-dry-out-carbon-dioxide-loss-not-a-factor-say-scientists/ ... the hunt is on for the missing ingredient. Carbon dioxide is a

At https://phys.org/news/2022-05-theoretical-accounts-sun-rotation-magnetic.html ... some new evidence on the sun, its rotation, and its generation of magnetic fields. A new model has been created, mainly to

At https://phys.org/news/2022-05-wild-animals-evolving-faster-thought.html ... a study into how wild animals are adapting to changes in the environment may show that the process of adaptive evolution is

The city, drowned beneath a reservoir of water near Mosul in Kurdistan, or if you like, northern Iraq, periodically reappears over the years when the

William sent in the link https://news.yahoo.com/prehistoric-dolphin-species-discovered-landlocked-150356910 ...  fossils of a prehistoric species of dolphin, going back around 20 million years ago on the geological column,

Gary sent in the link https://www.sciencealert.com/physicists-have-just-revived-a-previously-debunked-alternative-theory-of-gravity ... the theory does away with dark matter, a problem that has vexed physicists for some time. Modified Newtonian

This story is at https://phys.org/news/2022-05-swarm-satellites-unveil-magnetic-outermost.html ... ESAs Swarm satellite mission is able to peer down into what is going on inside the earth, from the

The Nebra Sky Disc, found in what was East Germany, dates back to around 1600BC - or earlier. Some efforts have been made to date