In the News

Painted Lady butterflies cross the Sahara during their migration from the Sahel to Europe - see https://phys.org/news/2021-06-butterflies-sahara-longest-known-insect-mi... ... Painted Ladies are an iconic butterfly but

At https://spaceweather.com on June 23rd 2021 astronomers announce the discovery of a comet so big it might actually be a small planet. The object has

Two crackers sent in by William. Number One is www.yahoo.com/news/second-space-rock-hit-earth-032125937.html ... a second space rock hit the earth after the one that is said to

Are they something like coronal mass ejections from the Sun? At https://phys.org/news/2021-06-classical-nova-explosions-involve-jets.html ... we learn that researchers at Oxford University have discovered that nova explosions

William sent in this link - https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/430000-years-ago-a-me... ... 430,000 years ago, a meteor exploded over Antarctica and left behind a debris field that has recently

At https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2021/06/17/the-suns-clock-calculations-s... ... there are various links to similar stories from the past in the introduction, links to papers and studies by mainstream and not

Obsidian travels - in the Old World as much as the New World [North America]. It was traded over long distances as it produced a

At the TeHEP [the Tall el-Hammam Excavation Project] newsletter of June 2021 we have some welcome news of what is going on as far as

Not just a snail trapped in amber but a snail that had just given birth - to five offspring [also engulfed in the same piece

William also sent in this link - www.yahoo.com/news/bdelloid-rotifer-survives-24-000-192518938.html ... a microscopic multi celled organism has returned to life after being frozen for 24,000 years in

William sent in this link - www.yahoo.com/news/lizard-oz-australia-biggest-dinosaur-123003496.html ... a journal study introduces a new Aussie dinosaur - see https://peerj.com/article/11317/ .. known as Australotitan. It was

At https://phys.org/news/2021-06-asteroid-psyche-scientists.html ... a metallic asteroid known as 16 Psyche has long been thought, by some astronomers, as a small planet that failed to form

Robert also sent in the link to https://phys.org/news/2021-06-deep-bedrock-mineral-veins-microbial.html ... with the comment - 'more confirmation of Thomas Gold's deep hot biosphere proposal and not forgetting

Sent in by Robert - a link to https://phys.org/news/2021-06-fossil-secret-diversity-earth-animals.html .... Robert quotes, 'we don't know over what kind of time scale these many flows happened

Gary sent in this link. In the News again as a result of a new study - the Storegga shelf collapse that led to a

At  https://phys.org/news/2021-05-astronomer-reveals-never-before-seen-cente... ... Using NASAs Chandra X-ray Observatory telescope Daniel Wang has obtains an amazing view of the centre of the galaxy - peering through

William sent in this link - a fascinating discovery by a Park Ranger in California. See www.yahoo.com/news/one-biggest-fossil-finds-california-120000764.html ... It is a remarkable site and somehow

I've posted this under climate change but it is as much history as anything else, or even geology, as the processes involved are not understood.

At https://phys.org/news/2021-05-nasa-roman-mission-probe-cosmic.html ... NASAs upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is designed to study supernovae - those exploding stars. When the tepescope is up and

At https://phys.org/news/2021-05-great-dying-abrupt-collapse-forest-mire.html ... the Great Dying is a reference to the end of Permian extinction event. As is their wont mainstream consider the culprit is