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Coinciding with the election win by you know who we suddenly have a study that purports to show Holocene temperatures were the equivalent of the

At https://phys.org/news/2021-01-purported-phosphine-venus-ordinary-sulfur.... ... in September, and posted on the News, a team in the UK claimed they had detected the chemical phosphine in the thick

Gary  sent in a link to this story at www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9192955/ ... but you can also read it at https://phys.org/news/2021-01-geological-phenomenon-widening-atlantic-oc... ... but the Daily Mail has

William sent in a link via Yahoo to this story but we can also read it at https://phys.org/news/2021-01-gigantic-dinosaur-unearthed-argentina-larg... ... Agentinosaurus was found in 2012 but

Gary also sent in this link to the discovery that mammoths and horses may have carried on living in North America much later than the

The Scotsman also has news of the unexpected discovery of a cursus monument, a kilometer in length, found on the Isle of Arran - see

Another study seeking to explain an anomaly. Did the nitrogen on earth have an origin in the rocks that make up the crust. See https://phys.org/news/2021-01-earth-nitrogen-locally-sourced.html

Lateral thinking at the Scotsman media outlet - or is that vertical thinking [see www.scotsman.com/heritage-and-retro/heritage/new-stone-age-immigrants-fr... ]. This is a new look at the onset of

At https://phys.org/news/2021-01-scientists-black-holes-stupendously-large.... ... whilst small to medium size black holes continue to remain invisible cosmologists are now putting forward the idea there are stupendously large

At www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2021/01/15/the-lake-victoria-cosmic-massacre-2/ ... the author, Mungo Jupp, ask's - is there a connection between Australia's lunettes and Carolina's oval bays? The lunettes are scattered around

This is bracketed under catastrophism as the 14th century famines and plagues were catastrophic. It is also assigned to catastrophism as a lot of this

Links sent in by Gary who has some interesting ideas on Egyptian iconography and history. As far as I can tell this story is only

At https://phys.org/news/2021-01-mistaken-identity-presumed-supernova-rever... ... here we have mainstream backtracking on itself. Astronomers thought they were looking at a supernova but oddly it appeared to recurr on

At https://phys.org/news/2021-01-geologic-history-written-garnet-sand.html ... the eastern edge of New Guinea was or is a plate boundary it is thought and has therefore captured a bit of

One story circulating on the Net in the aftermath of Christmas covers a new study that is said to have found evidence of severe drought

Genetic research is spreading far and wide across the world, so much so it has now reached some very remote places - see https://phys.org/news/2021-01-genome-people-asia-stone-age.html ...

The recent outbreak of Covid 19 has triggered an enormous amount of new research on the various covid viral manifestations which has to be good.

An interesting one emerging from the woodwork. At https://phys.org/news/2021-01-breatharian-bacteria-breakdown-greenhouse-... ... breatherian bacteria break down greenhouse gases. Some bacteria living in soils can break down toxic

The headline at this link is, why have so few Milky Way supernovas  been observed over the last millennium? See https://phys.org/news/2021-01-milky-supernovae-millennium.html ... a mystery as

At https://siberiantimes.com/other/others/news/faces-of-siberian-tutankhamu... ... a tomb in Tuva  with the burial of a Scythian king and his favourite concubine is extremely well preserved and the faces