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Interesting post at https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/04/250416151919.htm ... Laschamp is best known, not as a catastrophic event, but as an excursion of the magnetic poles. They actually flipped

At https://dailygalaxy.com/2025/04/volcanic-eruption-creates-island-inn-4-days/ .... a volcanic eruption in the Red Sea created a new island in just four days of outflow of lava. Fountains of lava

William sent in an interesting link. Rather than a sky ark traversing a heavenly Nile, or Jordan, there is a wide body of people who

Robert sent in several links. He says, 'more problems  for Big Bang theory ...'. See https://phys.org/news/2025-04-astronomers-rare-exoplanet-twin-star.html .... and https://phys.org/news/2025-04-distant-twin-milky.html ... The discovery of a large

At https://phys.org/news/2025-04-galactic-superwinds-galaxies-leak-ionizing.html ... strong X-ray emitting super winds may enable ionising radiation to leak. The research is centred on  trying to understand how the early

One stream of thinking is that dinosaurs were already in decline prior to the asteroid impact at the end of the Cretaceous. An equally forceful

At https://www.livescience.com/animals/extinct-species/colossals-de-extincted-dire-wolf-isnt-a-dire-wolf-and-it-has-not-been-de-extincted-experts-say ... was it - or was it not a dire wolf. On a more prosaic note, at https://phys.org/news/2025-04-reveals-million-years-green-arabia.html ... Arabia was green and

At https://phys.org/news/2025-04-klauea-volcano-ash-prompted-largest.html ... The Kilauea volcano on Hawaii that erupted in 2018 created a massive bloom in North Pacific phytoplankton. The mechanism of such blooms

This story is at https://www.livescience.com/space/the-sun/watch-eerie-ufos-and-a-solar-cyclone-take-shape-in-stunning-new-esa-video-of-the-sun ... ESAs Solar Orbiter has taken images of a towering cyclone of plasma exhibiting behaviour never seen before on the

Ancient genomes from the period when the Sahara was green and lush with rivers and streams and lots of fauna and flora, in the first

At https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/04/250401233454.htm ... mammals were already living in numbers prior to the event which killed the dinosaurs. The latter, of course, survive into the modern

Not sure if the electric involvement is too important as it is not the thrust of the study. A sort of afterthought. At https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/03/250304164422.htm ... 

Trevor Palmer has put an SIS e-Book on the Academia web site. See https://academia.edu/128356295/Greek_Historians_and_their_Role_in_the_Development_of_Modern_Ideas_on_Old_World_Chronologies ...

At https://phys.org/news/2025-03-team-dark-oxygen-seafloor.html ... this caught my eye in the opening paragraph. Children always ask 'why?' as they experience things, or come across something new to

The Israeli archaeologist and author, I. Finkelstein, has an article published in the Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament [Jan 28th, 2025].  See https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/ancient-egyptian-soldiers-and-greek-mercenaries-were-at-armageddon-when-biblical-king-was-killed-study-suggests ...

Robert sent in the link https://phys.org/news/2025-03-unveiling-mysterious-red-sprite-lightning.html ... by analysing the parent lightning discharges we discovered that the sprites were triggered by high peak current positive

William also sent in a link from National Geographic magazine. The same story is at https://www.livescience.com/space/planets/128-new-moons-discovered-orbiting-saturn-nearly-doubling-the-ringed-planets-total ... Saturn already had 146 moons. Another 128 means

William sent  in a link to https://www.yahoo.com/news/moses-parting-red-sea-may-060000050.html ... which also appeared on the MSN web site. A scientist is arguing, or speculating, that a natural

At https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/geology/52-foot-high-megaripples-from-asteroid-that-killed-dinosaurs-mapped-deep-beneath-louisiana-in-3d ... It seems the largest known ripples caused by a massive tsunami wave have been discovered deep beneath Louisianna. They show, conclusively, that

In the Journal of Cosmology 2010 volume 7, pages 1750-1770, we have a paper by R Joseph PhD and Chandra Wickramasinghe PhD, 'Comets and Contagion: