In the News

William sends me the odd climate change link but the subject comes with a lot of dedicated true believers and anything to the contrary is

At https://phys.org/news/2021-07-black-hole.html ... peering at X-rays flaring out of a black hole 800 million light years away, a series of smaller flashes of light were

There are some interesting reads in the latest issue of Current World Archaeology [108 August 2021] - see past issues at www.world-archaeology.com - but one

At https://phys.org/news/2021-07-unravelling-knotty-problem-sun.html ... unravelling a knotty problem of activity on the sun by untwisting and twisting magnetic field lines. At https://wattsupwiththat.com/2021/07/23/can-we-predict-long-term-solar-va... .. a post by

William sent in the link to www.yahoo.com/news/strange-behaviour-earths-core-reveals-182721717.html ... the temperature in the core of the earth is thought to be almost as hot as the

At https://phys.org/news/2021-07-long-period-oscillations-sun.html .... long period oscillations of the sun have been discovered. They have been predicted for a long time but modern telescope studies of

At https://phys.org/news/2021-07-physicists-sun-electric-field.html ... University of Iowa physicists, using the Parker Solar Probe data, have calculated the distribution of electrons within the Sun's electric field. Electrons

At https://phys.org/news/2021-07-megaripples-evidence-giant-tsunami-resulti... ... it seems a megatsunami wave did occur as a result of the Chicxulub asteroid strike at the K/Pg boundary [formerly K/T]. Two

Another link sent in by Robert - www.livescience.com/preserved-DNA-sampled-sheep-mummy.html .... pristine DNA from a sheep leg found in a salt mine in Iran, carbon dated to

At https://phys.org/news/2021-07-largest-comet.html ... the recently discovered  new visitor to the outer edge of the visible solar system is one of the biggest comets ever recorded,

One Billion Years in 40 seconds -see the video at www.visualcapitalist.com/1-billion-years-of-tectonic-plate-movement/ .. to be precise, one billion years of tectonic plate movement as perceived by

At www.livescience.com/bronze-age-infinity-pool-supernatural-rituals.html ... a mysterious wooden structure built in Italy 3000 years ago may have been a bronze age 'infinity pool' that reflected the sky

A vexed question - what causes extinction events? The problem has disturbed scientists for a long time, eager to keep their distance from the idea

The media made a meal once again from a new piece of research from University College, London. The claim is that scientists have solved a

On the web site of New Concepts in Global Tectonics, you can read all their back issues without charge. For their June 2021 issue go

At https://phys.org/news/2021-07-massive-explosion-mystery-star.html ... Not a nova. Not even a supernova - but a hypernova. Ten times more energetic than a supernova. It has been detected

This story has popped up across the internet - but see for example https://phys.org/news/2021-07-city-david-sharks-teeth-mystery.html ... a mystery discovered in the city of David - Jerusalem.

At https://phys.org/news/2021-07-wildfires-permian-triassic-transition-vege... ... one aspect of the proposed meteor bombardment at the Younger Dryas boundary is purported evidence of wild fires - although the actual

At https://phys.org/news/2021-07-early-humans-worst-effects-volcanic.html ... an interesting exercise in musical chairs. The Toba volcano in Indonesia is said to have erupted 74,000 years ago, but has been

At https://spaceweather.com [7th July 2021] https://spaceweatherarchive.com/2021/07/07/a-big-glowing-cloud-of-marsdust/ ... we learn that dust storms on Mars spill into space. According to research published in the AGU journal