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Back in 2016  there were thousands of earthquakes near a small island between Madagascar and Africa, part of the Comoro Islands and French territory. In

At https://phys.org/news/2022-06-earth-magnetic-poles-flip.html ... we are told that the earth's magnetic poles are not likely to flip any time soon. The emergence of a mysterious area

At https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/06/220607120927.htm ... clouds of ultraviolet particles can rotate around black holes. Hence, scientists might be able to use them to catalogue gravitational waves emitted

At https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2022/05/29/weathers-unwanted-guest-nasty-la-nina-keeps-popping-up-confounding-climate-modellers/ ... and see also https://tallbloke.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/lanina-winter.png ... I quote, 'when observations show modelers the opposite of what their best computer model simulations say should

Mars  once ran red with rivers - see https://phys.org/news/2022-05-mars-unusual.html ... and https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2022/05/31/why-did-mars-dry-out-carbon-dioxide-loss-not-a-factor-say-scientists/ ... the hunt is on for the missing ingredient. Carbon dioxide is a

At https://phys.org/news/2022-05-theoretical-accounts-sun-rotation-magnetic.html ... some new evidence on the sun, its rotation, and its generation of magnetic fields. A new model has been created, mainly to

At https://phys.org/news/2022-05-wild-animals-evolving-faster-thought.html ... a study into how wild animals are adapting to changes in the environment may show that the process of adaptive evolution is

The city, drowned beneath a reservoir of water near Mosul in Kurdistan, or if you like, northern Iraq, periodically reappears over the years when the

William sent in the link https://news.yahoo.com/prehistoric-dolphin-species-discovered-landlocked-150356910 ...  fossils of a prehistoric species of dolphin, going back around 20 million years ago on the geological column,

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