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Why did the Norse abandon their farms on Greenland
30 March 2022 > ArchaeologyWhy did the Norse abandon their farms on Greenland? At https://phys.org/news/2022-03-rewriting-history-vikings-left-greenland.html ... which is derived from www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abm4346 ... Norse farmers arrived in Greenland during the

Cannibal CME
30 March 2022 > AstronomyA cannibal coronal mass ejection is heading for the Earth, due to arrive tomorrow, the 31st of March. We have entered a cold period this

Heat Wave in Antarctica
28 March 2022 > Climate changeWilliam sent in a link to https://www.yahoo.com/news/eastern-antarctica-registers-temperatures-70-173500030.html... temperatures 70 degrees above normal have been registered in the interior of Antarctica, according to a Twitter post

Ryugu and Apophis
27 March 2022 > AstronomyAt https://phys.org/news/2022-03-supermassive-black-holes-stellar-births.html ... supermassive black holes put a brake on the birth of new stars. This is the latest claim, and it involved machine learning.

Victoria to Victorian
27 March 2022 > Climate changeAt https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2022/03/26/landmark-decision-vindicates-victims-supreme-court-orders-total-wind-farm-shutdown/ ... in the State of Victoria, in Australia, wind turbine noise has led to a shut down of the Bald Hills wind farm
Waves on the Sun
26 March 2022 > ElectromagnetismAt https://phys.org/news/2022-03-mysterious-sun-unexplained.html ... researchers have discovered a mysterious type of wave in the Sun with an unexplained speed. They are being called high frequency retrograde

Climate Musical Chairs
25 March 2022 > Climate changeAt https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.com/2022/03/18/iea-wants-energy-lockdowns/ ... it seems that enviros and politicos, puffed up with the success of covid lockdowns, now want an energy lockdown, Paul Homewood tells

A Triassic Story
25 March 2022 > GeologyOne to ponder. At https://phys.org/news/2022-03-soil-erosion-wildfires-coffin-triassic.html ... researchers have revealed that soil erosion as a result, or cap in hand with wildfires, contributed to the end

Milky Way is Older Than Expected
25 March 2022 > AstronomyAt https://phys.org/news/2022-03-gaia-mission-milky-older-dated.html ... the ESA Gaia Mission has shown the Milky Way began to form 13 billion years ago. Much earlier than anticipated. This is

Hawaiian Emperor and the Yellowstone
25 March 2022 > GeologyAt https://phys.org/news/2022-03-hawaiian-emperor-undersea-mystery-revealed-supercomputers.html ... the Hawaiian Emperor seamount chain spans four thousand miles, stretching from the Hawaiian Islands to the Detroit seamount in the North Pacific.

Hiawatha Impact Crater New Date
12 March 2022 > CatastrophismDanish and Swedish researchers have now dated the giant Hiawatha crater, 31 km wide, discovered in Greenland, back in 2015. Go to https://phys.org/news/2022-03-giant-impact-crater-greenland-million.html ... The

Pilgrimage and the Devil in a Boot
11 March 2022 > ArchaeologyMedieval pilgrimage was popular in the 12th and 13th centuries. Hence, the popularity of Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales'. This is a story about a group of

Bubbles
11 March 2022 > Astronomy, ElectromagnetismAt https://phys.org/news/2022-03-massive-center-milky-supermassive-black.html ... the supermassive black hole thought to reside at the centre of the Milky Way galaxy is said to have started spewing out

Blobs in the Mantle
11 March 2022 > GeologyAt https://phys.org/news/2022-03-blobs-earth-mantle-unexpected-differences.html ... within Earth's Mantle there are two massive bob like structures, roughly on opposite sides of the planet. They are each around the

Nechtansmere
9 March 2022 > ArchaeologyGary sent in a link to https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-10565141/ ... and the story is also at https://phys.org/news/2022-03-rare-pictish-stone-potential-site.html ... a large stone was pulled out of a farmers

Sodom
9 March 2022 > ArchaeologyIt seems the very word Sodom can spark off an internet firestorm. Who would have guessed? The latest issue of the newsletter of the Tall

Stonehenge Solar Calendar
6 March 2022 > ArchaeologyStonehenge as a solar calendar is back on the cards it would seem, after years of neglect as a subject spoken in mainstream circles. Timothy

Solar Illusion
5 March 2022 > AstronomyAt https://phys.org/news/2022-03-solar-illusion-coronal-loops.html ... coronal loops are rope like strands of plasma that scientists think exist in the sun's atmosphere. They may actually be optical illusions.

Gradualism Restored
5 March 2022 > EvolutionAt https://phys.org/news/2022-03-gradual-evolution-darwinian-theory.html ... the headline begins, gradual evolution is back. I didn't know it had gone away. A newly published paper supports the idea that

Chinese Crater
5 March 2022 > CatastrophismWilliam sent in a couple of links to the same story. See for example https://weather.com/science/space/video/largest-impact-crater-in-past-100000-years-found-in-china?cm_ven=hp-slot-3 ... See also Meteoritics and Planetary Sciences 56, Nr, pages