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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

In Current World Archaeology 113 June 2022, see https://www.world-archaeology.com ... there are various stories on archaeology such as the stone jars of Assam, similar to

At https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2022/05/11/iceland-reykjanes-volcano-update-alert-level-raised-to-yellow-magma-activity-near-geothermal-plant/ ... the alert level was raised in response to a new intrusion of magma in the volcano on Reykjanes peninsular. It is centred

At https://notrickszone.com/2022/05/18/german-conservationists-score-win-in-battle-to-protect-1000-year-old-grimms-fairytale-forest-from-green-insanity/ ... the headline reads, green insanity. They have already started cutting down wide swathes of a 1000 year old forest in the state

Gary sent in the link to https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-10813869/ ... some Antarctic ice shelves have grown over the last 20 years, we are told. This comes in

At https://phys.org/news/2022-05-astronomers-reveal-image-black-hole.html ... this story even got on to the BBC news programmes so the press releases must have been coming thick and fast. This

Chinese and Danish scientists have found evidence water existed on Mars. The downside is that they are thinking in terms of 3 billion years ago.

Sent in by William - fossil of a huge raptor dinosaur unearthed in Patagonia - see https://www.yahoo.com/news/argentine-scientists-discover-fossil-largest-225706758.html ... and https://www.yahoo.com/news/shadow-death-dinosaur-fossils-discovered-145318966.html ... and again, https://www.yahoo.com/news/fossils-giant-marine-reptiles-found-161604250.html ...

At https://phys.org/news/2022-04-blueprint-life-asteroids.html ... according to a new analysis by scientists they have found the last two of the five informational units of DNA and RNA

A professor of mathematics and physics, one Christopher Essex, has criticised some aspects of the last IPCC Report [ on the Canadian blog of Donna

Sent in by William. At https://www.yahoo.com/news/official-hottest-rock-ever-recorded-215246284.html ... a Canadian Space Agency funded project in Newfoundland and Labrador has been looking at the Mistastin Crater. This

William sent in the link https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/scientists-found-evidence-earthquake-big-202400221.html ... a research paper in Science Advances says a newly discovered megaquake in Chile, around 3800 years ago, was

Marinus van der Sluijs, who has written some interesting articles for SIS journals, is in the science news this week. In collaboration with Hisashi Hayakawa

The comet seems to have a semi-major axis of around 16,000 AU, and a perihelion distance of around 10.9 AU. That is, beyond Saturn. A

At https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/04/16/seafloor-spreading-has-been-slowing-down/ ... which pertains to a research paper published by the American Geophysical Union. Sluggish rates of seafloor spreading 'could' mean a drop in

At https://notrickszone.com/2022/04/18/new-study-90-papers-were-published-on-the-hiatus-from-2009-2019-now-they-say-it-never-happened/ ... in late 2012, the IPCC had a problem. They've always got a problem but in this case, they were confronted by uncooperative

William sent in the link to https://www.yahoo.com/news/turns-megacomet-more-80-miles-192641117.html ... the Bernardinelli-Bernstein Comet, or C/2014UN271, was discovered by astronomers at the University of Pennsylvania, Gary Bernstein and

Two posts on climate change on the same day. Normally it is two posts in a month. At https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/04/13/epicentre-of-mass-coral-bleaching-still-so-beautiful-part-1/ ... the redoubtable Jennifer Marohasy over