In the News

At https://sciencenorway.no/arctic-climate-change-forskningno/an-ice-free-o... ... researchers from Norway and the UK have been looking at polynyas - ice free openings between land ice and sea ice. These

At https://sciencenorway.no/geology-meteorites/when-a-several-hundred-metre... ... a crater at the bottom of the Barents Sea is 40 km in width. It is located between Svalbard and northern Norway

William also sent in this link. On the Antikythera Mechanism - see Current World Archaeology 108 [August/September 2021] pages 16-23 [see also https://www.world-archaeology.com ] and

Willian sent in this link and it opens a fascinating subject. At https://news.yahoo.com/news/north-seas-hidden-ice-age-230234332.html ... a spectacular Ice Age landscape has been revealed beneath the North

Interesting article from The Conservation - but see https://phys.org/news/2021-08-ancient-beliefs-underwater-worlds-sealevel... ... and although some of the evidence produced is very interesting it is unfortunately an article

The big news of the month is the discovery of earthquake damage at Jerusalem which has been provisionally dated to the 8th century BC, mainly

William also sent in this link - www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/perseverance-captures-incredible-clip-lumpy-2013... ... Perseverance on the surface of the planet Mars, has beamed back some nice images - including

A Late Cretaceous 'polar wander oscillation' has been recognised - see www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-23803-8 ... where you can download the full pdf. True polar wander, or movement

At https://phys.org/news/2021-09-farmers-europe-balkans-date-5th.html ... Switzerland is famous for its Neolithic lake dwellings - on wooden piles. Now, they have looked at a site in a lake

Robert sent in the link https://thedailyplasma.blog/2021/08/26/cracks-in-theory/ ... and https://www.space.com/grand-canyon-rock-mystery-rodinia .... the first link is to Andrew Hall who posts at Thunderbolts and the second one

This intriguing statement is at https://phys.org/news/2021-08-fast-solar-seasons-sun-clock.html ... the Sun flips its magnetic field every 11 years. How does it do that? A new mystery for

Interesting post at www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2021/08/14/the-plasma-of-bloodlines/ ...  which is about coats of arms and heraldry in general. Symbols have been passed down through the ages. In this

At www.heritagedaily.com/2021/08/thousands-of-human-and-animal-bones-hoarde... ... were they taken into the cave system slowly over a long period of time or were they washed into the lava tubes

At https://phys.org/news/2021-08-people-philippines-denisovan-dna.html ... Negrito remnant populations living in the Philippines, suc as the Ayta Magbuken, preserves the highest level of Denisovan DNA and ancestry -

Sent in by Gary www.newscientist.com/article/2285964-the-moon-may-never-actually-have-ha... ... fresh analysis of Apollo moon rocks suggest the moon did not have a magnetic field of its own. Researchers

The block of upland between the Herefordshire Golden Valley and the Wye river valley is fast becoming revealed as the hosts of an integrated Neolithic

Probably already done this one as well but see https://phys.org/news/2021-08-space-scientists-reveal-secret-jupiter.html ... an international team of scientists have explained the mechanism behind Jupiter's atmospheric heating, or

I think we have been here before but William sent in this link to https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/310-million-old-horseshoe-crab-174134689... ... a recent discovery of a 310 million year old

William sent in the link https://www.yahoo.com/news/dinosaur-bones-became-griffins-volcanic-12404... ... geomythology has produced some very interesting parallels between, shall we say, geology and legends. However, it can also

This story is at https://www.livescience.com/stonehenge-pillars-mesozoic.html ... and https://www.sciencealert.com/rediscovered-chunk-of-stone-henge-gives-a-g... ... Back in  1958, during restoration work at Stonehenge, one of the uprights was found to be