In the News

At https://phys.org/news/2025-09-death-dinosaurs-reengineered-earth.html ... The basics of the argument in this research paper is that the disappearance of the dinosaurs led to a re-engineering of the

At https://phys.org/news/2025-09-xrism-reveals-sluggish-neutron-star.html ... the X-Ray Imaging Specroscopy Mission [XRISM] has revealed there is an unexpected difference between the powerful wind launched around a neutron star

According to Robert the mainstream don't like Sabine Hossenfelder's ideas. Normally, they ignore such people but it seems her university has cancelled her.  She's gone.

At last, a bit of realism creeping into the Out of Africa debate. At https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/human-evolution/it-makes-no-sense-to-say-there-was-only-one-origin-of-homo-sapiens-how-the-evolutionary-record-of-asia-is-complicating-what-we-know-about-our-species ... here we are told the story of our ancient

At https://phys.org/news/2025-09-mission-pickup-ions-solar-earth.html .... do we really understand the amount of energy the solar wind throws at the Earth's magnetosphere? The latter is Earth's defence system

At https://phys.org/news/2025-09-electricity-plays-role-body-cell.html ... There is a lot of electricity in the universe. It plays a significant role in life on Earth. At the link above

At https://phys.org/news/2025-09-newly-dated-million-year-dinosaur.html ... we have an interesting background story, in that the focus of the article is on the dating of some dinosaur eggs  but

At https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/geology/the-geology-that-holds-up-the-himalayas-is-not-what-we-thought-scientists-discover .... this piece has a revealing sentence. For a century the prevailing theory has been that a collision between Asia and India led

At https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/human-evolution/dna-has-an-expiration-date-but-proteins-are-revealing-secrets-about-our-ancient-anetors we never-thought-possible ...  DNA has an expiration date because it gradually degrades. It is calculated to completely disappear after about 7 million years.

At https://dailygalaxy.com/2025/08/black-hole-waking-after-billions-of-years/ ... astronomers claim to have spied a black hole in the act of awaking from a long slumber. What they actually saw were

At https://dailygalaxy.com/2025/09/chinese-submersible-craters-pacificc-ocean/ .... a Chinese submersible has plotted a field of massive craters in the Pacific, teeming with hydrogen feeding life forms. The hydrogen itself

At https://dailygalaxy.com/2025/09/voyager-1-just-survived-50000c-in-space/ ... NASAs Voyager One is now just behind the solar system's heliopause. Temperatures are thought to skyrocket to 50,000 celsius or thereabouts -

At https://dailygalaxy.com/2025/09/largest-blue-whale-fossil-found-farmer/ ... an Italian farmer uncovered a large blue whale fossil in a lakebed on his land. The lake was being used for irrigation

Comet 31/ATLAS, the solar system interloper, has its tail facing the wrong way - aligned directly opposite what one might expect. So it would seem.

At https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/human-evolution/the-first-americans-had-denisovan-dna-and-it-may-have-helped-them-survive ... The first Americans, or what is thought to be the first humans to colonise the American continent, possessed Denisovan DNA. In small amounts

At https://dailygalaxy.com/2025/09/discovery-lost-civilization-wiped-out-flood/  ... the ancient Sumerian city at the stie of Tell Farah seems to have another city buried beneath its Sumerian period ruins. Prior

Robert sent in a link https://www.newsweek.com/space-weather-hurricane-north-pole-physics-2107531 ... which is fascinating from the point of view of the electric universe - minus the Saturn stuff. Robert

At https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/meskalamdugs-helmet-one-of-the-worlds-oldest-helmets-depicts-a-mesopotamian-princes-man-bun ... a 15 carat gold helmet was found in a royal tomb at Ur. These tombs date back to the early third millennium

At https://dailygalaxy.com/2025/08/oil-doesnt-come-from-dinosaurs/ ... apparently, oil was supposed to originate from dinosaurs. I didn't know that. I thought it was derived from biomass in which dinosaurs

At https://phys.org/news/2025-08-ocean-sediments-theory-comet-impact.html .... Fe rich and silica rich impact microspherules, as well as interstellar dust particles, interpreted as cometary dust, have been found in sediment