In the News

At https://phys.org/news/2021-09-hidden-chamber-vanguard-cave-gorham.html ... Gorham's Cave complex on Gibraltar. A new cave has been found, branching off from Vanguard cave - but at a higher level.

At https://phys.org/news/2021-09-species-large-predatory-dinosaur-isle.html ... the Isle of Wight has been a good hunting ground for dinosaur fossil bones over the years. The Wight is derived from

At https://phys.org/news/2021-09-sunlight-filtering-venus-clouds-earth-like... ... sunlight filtering through the Venus thick atmosphere could support earth like photosynthesis in the cloud layers. Chemical conditions are potentially amenable to

Gary sent in the link www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-10041411/ ... Mars surface was carved by fast and furious floods from overflowing craters - with enough water released in

Sent in by William via a Smithsonian link that would not print out. The story can be found at the local level - see https://cumbriaguide.co.uk/excavation-of-carlisle-roman-bathhouse-uncove...

The Week That Was newsletter of September 25th 2021 - see www.sepp.org ... and provides some news from the UN before plunging into a recent

At https://spaceweather.com   [25th September 2021] we have a short video clip by a photographer in Puerto Rica using a Sony A7 camera. He shows

In the TeHEP newsletter of 24th September 2021 [go to www.tallelhammam.com to sign up for the newletter] we learn from Stee Collins, the lead archaeologist

William sent in the link to this story - www.yahoo.com/news/oldest-human-footprints-north-america-225106590.html ... according to a report published in the journal Science [23rd September 2021] footprints found

The Week That Was, the weekly newsletter of www.sepp.org ... has a piece by Ken Haapala, president of SEPP, that some may find rather revealing

Robert sent in the link to https://phys.org/news/2021-09-groundwater-ice-sheets-largest-reservoir.html ... with the comment that deep hot water was found at the Kola super deep bore hold, casting

Sent in by Gary- www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-10009433/ ... ancient Mars was dotted with thousands of massive super volcanoes discovered after scientists mistook their extinct calderas as craters

Robert sent in a link to an article that claims volcanoes did not cause the extinction of the dinosaurs - a counter view to the

The Trinity South West excavations at Tall el-Hammam in Jordan has been published at last - in the journal Nature Scientific Reports. It is a

A post at Tall Bloke's talk shop - https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2021/09/20/earth-can-makes-its-own-auroras/ .. which is derived from https://spaceweatherarchive.com/2021/09/20/earth-can-makes-its-own-auroras/ ... earth can manufacture its own auroras, we are told,

At https://wattsupwiththat.com/2021/09/09/the-creatceous-geology-of-alabama... ... the author, a geologist, comments on an article in Hakai magazine [which you can get to online]. It revolves around a paleontological

At https://notrickszone.com/2021/09/09/scientists-increasingly-agree-the-la... ... scientists have been forced to accept that during the Late Glacial Maximum summers were several degrees warmer than in the modern world.

At https://sciencenorway.no/arctic-climate-change-forskningno/an-ice-free-o... ... researchers from Norway and the UK have been looking at polynyas - ice free openings between land ice and sea ice. These

At https://sciencenorway.no/geology-meteorites/when-a-several-hundred-metre... ... a crater at the bottom of the Barents Sea is 40 km in width. It is located between Svalbard and northern Norway

William also sent in this link. On the Antikythera Mechanism - see Current World Archaeology 108 [August/September 2021] pages 16-23 [see also https://www.world-archaeology.com ] and