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This is the big story of late March - 3 published articles on a 2022 [October 9th] pulse of intense radiation that swept across the

At https://phys.org/news/2023-03-photosynthesis-hack-ways-generating-renewable.html ... researchers, it is claimed, have hacked the early stages of photosynthesis, and they say they have discovered new ways to extract energy

At https://phys.org/news/2023-03-rna-molecule-uracil-asteroid-ryugu.html ... after analysis of samples collected from the asteroid Ryugu, via Japanese spacecraft Hayabasa2, researchers say they have found uracil - one of

At https://phys.org/news/2023-03-simple-explanation-oumuamua-weird-orbit.html ... a surprisingly simple explanation for Oumuamua's weird orbit. It was accelerating away from the sun in a way that astronomers could not

This one appears, on the face of it, to be fighting a battle that has long been put to bed by mainstream - the Stonehenge

At https://phys.org/news/2023-03-large-asteroid-chance.html ... a big space rock will pass between the orbits of the earth and the moon  this weekend. It will be just 100,000

At https://www.yahoo.com/news/earth-knocked-off-axis-over-194130839.html ... since 1980 earth's poles have drifted by about 13 feet. Not a great deal then - unless you believe the position of

Gary  sent in the link to https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-11862699/ ... Venus is volcanically active we are told - scientists have found strong evidence to say so. Perhaps.

At https://phys.org/news/2023-03-giant-ant-fossil-ancient-arctic.html ... ants the size  of small songbirds - another find. Fossils of giant ants are known from Europe and other places. Big ants

William sent in a link to a National Geographical article in volume 243 No 2, March of 2023. Nadia Drake, 'Saturn: what put the rings

At https://phys.org/news/2023-03-major-north-american-oil-source.html ... which is a reference to the Bakken shale formation that lies beneath a stretch of North Americ, from North Dakota into Canada.

At https://phys.org/news/2023-03-universe-dark-big.html ... we have the headline,  'The universe may have started with a dark big bang' - but does that mean an invisible explosion?

Water, water, everywhere ... in the universe. At https://phys.org/news/2023-03-venus-oceans-life-earth.html ... Venus is currently a planet which is incredibly hot at the surface. It had, or

Wal Thornhill died a few weeks ago and tributes have been popping up. In this instance the link here is to a forum piece on

At https://phys.org/news/2023-02-archaeologists-homes-europe-monument-makers.html ... French archaeologists have found where the megalith builders lived - when not humping big stones around. Megalithic buildings first appear in a

Robert sent in this one, https://phys.org/news/2023-02-solar-gained-super-earth.html ... which is basically, what would happen in the solar system if it gained a super earth, a modeling

At https://phys.org/news/2023-02-ryugu-asteroid-sample-reveals-organic-rich.html ... samples from the Ryugu asteroid, collected by Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft, are organic rich. This sample was shared with US researchers and we

William setin the link to https://www.yahoo.com/news/webb-telescope-spots-six-galaxies-192633089.html ... and comments - so much for theory. We must change our assumptions or we will get nowhere. The

At https://phys.org/news/2023-02-radiocarbon-method-interaction-homo-sapiens.html ... the story is about yet another switch in C14 methodology - and no doubt a suite of new dates. Or am I

At https://phys.org/news/2023-02-asteroid-scientists-rare-opportunity.html ... the asteroid Apophis was the subject of Nicholas Costa's book, Adam to Apophis, and its near fly by in 2029 and 2036,