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At https://phys.org/news/2023-04-fossilized-soot-charcoal-reconstruct-history.html ... an  intriguing new dating technique - in caves. It is being dubbed, 'smoke archaeology' but is in fact more complicated than that

In the UK, the month of May is the subject of a campaign by the charity, Plant Life. One of their cohorts actually sells wild

William sent in the link https://www.yahoo.com/news/fact-check-despite-claims-old-215243519.html .. which is a rather unusual post as the authors appear to lack critical analasis skills. It starts off

William sent in the link to https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/dinosaur-killing-asteroid-did-not- 185625946.html ... which beggars belief by claiming the asteroid strike did not create a nuclear winter after the

William sent in the link to https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/bizarre-object-10-million-times-201649460.html ... a so called bizarre object, we are told, some ten million times brighter than our Sun, defies

Gary sent in a link to https://news.artnet.com/art-world/mustatil-excavation-alula-saudi-arabia-2271897 ... the excavation of a stone monument in Al Ula in Saudi Arabia has come up with some

Robert sent in the link to https://spaceweather.com ... April 14th 2023. Mercury is complicating things. This week it sported a plume of gas flowing behind

Robewrt sent in the link https://phys.org/news/2023-04-geoscientist-phosphorus-material-lightning.html ... a fulgarite formed by lightning in Florida consists of a glass like melt surrounding an internal void which

Benin bronzes, it would seem, were made from metal with an origin in Germany - see https://phys.org/news/2023-04-benin-bronzes-german-brass.html ... or to be exact, German brass. The

Zooming into Uranus, the James Webb Space Telescope revealed its ring structure in fine detail - see https://phys.org/news/2023-04-webb-world-image-uranus.html ... Uranus has 13 rings - and

During a talk at an archaeological society meeting I heard mention of St Bartholomew and a 'flaying knife' - or had my imagination run wild

Human activities throw a lot of pollutants into the air, and they find their way into the atmosphere. However, they do not seem to aggregate

William sent in the link to https://www.yahoo.com/news/happen-asteroid-ryugu-hit-earth-120016511.html ... scientists claim to have calculated what would happen if the asteroid Ryugu struck the earth - or

At https://phys.org/news/2023-03-earth-anisotropic-core-driven-dipole.html ... a geomagnetic field is generated in Earth's interior and extends into outer space to protect the Earth from cosmic radiation and the

This interesting research is at https://phys.org/news/2023-03-scientists-uncover-ice-age-shift-pacific.html ... the overturning circulation of the Pacific 'flipped' during the last Ice Age - presumably the Late Glacioal Maximum.

At https://phys.org/news/2023-03-light-bending-gravity-reveals-biggest-black.html ... a team of astronomers claim to have discovered one of the biggest black holes known - taking advantage of gravitational lensing. This

Going back to https://phys.org/news/2023-03-nasa-missions-in-year-gamma-ray.html ... which is derived from https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/acc390/pdf ... we further learn they are still looking for the supernova - and plan to

At https://phys.org/news/2023-03-ancient-forests-seaways-climate-lessons.html ... this is an article that is supposed to be a climate lesson for us in the 2st century - aka terrifying global

At https://phys.org/news/2023-03-untold-history-horse-american-plains.html ... an untold story of the horse in the American plains. Horses, it is claimed, first emerged in the Americas - and millions

This is the big story of late March - 3 published articles on a 2022 [October 9th] pulse of intense radiation that swept across the