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Comet Leonard will round the Sun on January 3rd [next week]. It is already proving to be an interesting passage through the solar system -

Sent in  by gary - which continues the theme of dinosaurs ... www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-10332483/ ... a Chinese fossil of a dinosaur egg - and inside, a

Robert sent in some interesting links, such as https://phys.org/news/2021-12-millipedes-big-cars-roamed-northern.html ... millipedes as big as cars roamed northern England. The link has an image which shows

At https://phys.org/news/2021-12-image-hubble-views-galaxy-explosive.html ... the Hubble space telescope, had a side view of NGC3568, a spiral galaxy. It recorded what is attributed by NASA and ESA

It's Christmas and Jesus themed stories usually accrue at this time of year. Very often involving the identification of the star that guided the 3

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