In the News

William sent in the link https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/strange-structures-discovered-in-the-pacific-could-change-our-understanding-of-earth/ ... here we have some unexplained geology in South Africa, on the one hand, and New Zealand, on the

At https://www.iflscience.com/engraved-bone-of-prehistoric-bear-is-the-oldest-example-of-neanderthal-culture-73884/ ... in this we are back to the last Interglacial Period with a date between 115,000 and 130,000 years ago. It involves a

At https://phys.org/news/2024-04-art-discoveries-eastern-sudan-tale.html ... in the desert of eastern Sudan, in what is called the Atbai Desert, there are plentiful rock art sites - along what

Robert sent in some interesting links. At https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/5-catastrophic-megathrust-earthquakes-led-to-the-demise-of-the-pre-aztec-city-of-teotihuacan-new-study-suggests .... the gist of the paper is that evidence of earthquakes found at Teotihuacan caused the demise

At https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/04/240416125319.htm ... a nearby supernova in 2023 failed to produce gamma rays. NASAs Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope did not detect any  gamma rays -

At https://phys.org/news/2024-04-hydrogen-recombination-plausible-explanation-high.html ... here we have a plausible explanation put forward to explain the intensity of stellar flares. Cosmologists making sense of solar flares as

At https://www.livescience.com/animals/extinct-species/giant-82-foot-lizard-fish-discovered-on-uk-beach-could-be-largest-marine-reptile-ever-found ... it was in fact a very large ichthyosaur that lived in the seas of late Triassic - going back 200 million years

At https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/04/240415110602.htm ... palaeontologists have excavated 3 new species of extinct kangaroos that lived between 5 million years and 40,000 years ago. Note the end

You can  read about this at https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2024/04/15/worlds-top-cosmologists-convene-to-question-conventional-view-of-the-universe/  .... which comes courtesy of the Guardian newspaper. It concerns an upcoming meeting of the Royal Society which

At https://www.sciencenews.org/article/flower-antennas-bees-electrical-signals/ ...  flowers may act as antennae for bees electrical signals. Plants might use the signals to communicate when to trigger nectar production. The

Specifically, their focus is on western Anatolia and the eastern Aegean region. You can view a podcast interview at https://open.spotify.com/3i5EhhvUkQTiuPGwWrTtyS .... but see also https://www.migmag-erc.eu/

At https://phys.org/news/2024-04-discovery-pottery-rewrites-aboriginal-history.html ... the discovery of pottery on Jiigurru/Lizard Island off the Queensland coast challenges the idea Aborigines were unaware of pottery manufacture prior to

At https://www.science.org/content/article/modern-blackfoot-people-descend-ancient-ice-age-lineage/ ... The Blackfeet people are descended from Ice Age people. They live in a broat swathe of North America - and seem to

At https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/geology/underwater-robot-in-siberias-lake-baikal-reveals-hidden-mud-volcanoes-and-an-active-fault .... a video camera onboard an underwater robot found cracks associated with mud volcanism close to an active fault zone under the surface

Ther Tall el-Hammam excavation came to an end in the 2023 season. However, a lot of  work is still going on back in the US,

William sent in a couple of links to the re-assessment of the 1859 Carrington Event. See for example https://www.earth.com/news/carrington-event-biggest-solar-storm-history-radiocarbon-earth-tree-rings .... scientists have  found a new

At https://www.livescience.com/space/mars/single-enormous-object-left-2-billion-craters-on-mars-scientists-discover/ ... an object slammed into Mars 2.3 million years ago and created two billion small craters around the main impact site. The main

Javier, writing on Judith Curry's blog, which has a  lot of climate scientist interest as she is one of them, is saying alarmist models are

At https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/03/240320160445.htm ... boats were used by Neolithic people to colonise the Mediterranean. By necessity, boats must have been used to explore the southern shores

At https://spaceweather.com ... archive, March 20th 2024 - the polar vortex is spinning  backwards - in the stratosphere above the Arctic. The vortex changed direction