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At www.hhmi.org/news/clovis-people-spread-central-and-south-america-then-va... ... DNA evidence of the spread of Clovis people determined they had disappeared 9000 years ago - replaced by a new group of

Brachiopods are small, shelled, filter feeding ocean dwellers that are extremely abundant and well preserved in the fossil record. These qualities make them ideal for

Gary sent in the link to www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-10332753/ ... life forms could be living in the clouds of Venus. It appears to come from the same

Thunderbolts posted their piece a couple of days ago - see yesterday's post on astronomy,, and here we are on Wednesday with a brilliant view

At https://phys.org/news/2021-12-astronomers-spy-quartet-cavities-giant.html ... astronomers have found four enormous cavities, or bubbles, at the centre of a galaxy cluster, using NASA s Chandra X-ray Observatory. It

At https://phys.org/news/2021-12-humans-remote-north-atlantic-islands.html ... lake sediments from the Faeroes have drawn some interesting information. Humans were living on the islands as early as AD500 - some

Gary sent in this link www.yahoo.com/news/why-sand-mafias-forming-science-124003906.html .... William actually sent the link to Gary who forwarded it on to SIS. The mainstream theory is that

At https://phys.org/news/2021-12-einstein-greatest-theory-extreme-stars.html ... an international team of scientists has been looking at extreme stars known as pulsars, through seven radio telescopes around the world. They

William also sent in a link to www.yahoo.com/news/massive-planet-10-times-bigger-224427538.html ... and you can read the same story at https://weather.com/en-IN/india/space/news/2021-12-10-planet-ten-times-t... ... and https://phys.org/news/2021-12-large-telescope-images-planet-massive.html ... which is all

Gary sent in the link to www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetrech/article-10293777/ ... DNA evidence of mammoths and horses in the Yukon - just 5000 years ago. In other words,

At https://phys.org/news/2021-12-year-old-leather-armor-technology-antiquit... ... leather scale armour found in the tomb of a horse rider in NW China has been compared with similar armour from the

Biology is a funny thing, especially when you mix it in with hypothetical computer induced cycles. See https://www.sciencealert.com/natural-cycles-in-earth-s-orbit-can-drive-b... ....If you are a computer geek and

At https://spaceweather.com [3rd December 2021] ... a sudden drop in atmospheric radiation was caused by a 'cannibal CME' that brushed earth's atmosphere. It sparked auroras

Gary sent in the link to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyCHtdpymNw ... which is a video of Francis Prior, the archaeologist, and prolific writer and former member of Time

This comes courtesy of George Howard at https://cosmictusk.com/oldie-goodie-carolina-coast-uk-catastrophically-i... ... this is essentially a report from 2012 - but interesting never the less. Both the coasts

Robert sent in the link to https://phys.org/news/2021-11-strong-power-electric-fields-upper.html ... with the comment, a plasma wind = am electric current. The authors postulate a bottom up approach,

At https://phys.org/news/2021-11-asteroid-material-deposited-large-impacts.... ... the moon, we are told, has no core dynamo or magnetic field. However, spacecraft have detected numerous strong localised magnetic fields in

Sent in by Willia. What is that ancient mammoth tusk doing at the bottom of the ocean? See https://weather.com/news/trending/video/what-is-ancient-mammoth-tusk-doi... ... what is an ancient mammoth

At https://phys.org/news/2021-11-largest-comet-near-record-distance.html ... the largest comet ever observed seems to have been active a long way out from the Sun. Largest ever is restricted to

At https://phys.org/news/2021-11-sun-unaccounted-source-earth.html ... an interesting new study - the Sun might be an unaccounted source of water on earth. See www.nature.com/articles/s41550-021-01487-w ... a University of