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At https://phys.org/news/2025-11-landscape-clues-indigenous-peoples-southwestern.html ... the tectonic lakes of Bolivia reveal a landscape modelled by humans. They are situated  in SW Amazonia and they have had a

Most kids in the 50s and 60s dabbled with balsa wood. It made model aircraft that would float in the air. It was a staple

At https://phys.org/news/2025-11-big-quest-bottom-climate-ice.html ... the obsession with climate change led to this piece of research - which may be useful in ways they have not thought

At https://phys.org/news/2025-11-archaeologists-evidence-indigenous-distance-voyaging.html ...   Maori double hulled canoes of the 18th century. The link provides an illustration made at the time by Herman Sporing. Did indigenous

The Bering Land Bridge has been submerged since the Late Glacial Maximum - see https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/the-bering-land-bridge-has-been-submerged-since the-last-ice-age-will-scientists-ever-study-it ... the missive here is that humans must have

Not a chcolate egg but a dinosaur egg  recently unearthed in Argentina's Rio Negro region - see https://dailygalaxy.com/2025/11/perfectly-intact-fossilized-dinosaur-egg/ ... paleontologists in Argentina have unearthed a

At https://spaceweather.com .. on the 2nd of Novermber, we have another comet - C/2025K1, which has just survived perihelion. It was thought it might disintegrate

At https://dailygalaxy.com/2025/11/nasa-voyager-finds-blazing-wall-of-fire/ ... NASAs Voyager 1 and 2 are still beaming back information. They are somewhere within, or without. the boundary of our solar  system.

At https://dailygalaxy.com/2025/10/what-scientists-just-uncovered-in-the-mayan-calendar-is-far-more-advanced-than-all-modern-calculations/ ... the headline is bulky and ignores the fact that so called junk science has been telling everyone for decades that the Mayan

At https://dailygalaxy.com/2025/10/50000-year-old-fossil-discovery-reveals-neanderthals-had-a-much-richer-diet-than-science-ever-believed/ ... this follows on from previous research that seemed to point to a high plant intake in their diet. The Neanderthal cave man

At https://www.livescience.com/animals/extinct-species/ancient-frosty-rhino-from-canadas-high-arctic-rewrites-what-scientists-thought-they-knew-about-the-north-atlantic-land-bridge ... a long headline. The researchers have gained an insight into rhinoceros evolution and the longevity of the North Atlantic land bridge. This

At https://phys.org/news/2025-10-scientists-explanation-oddball-rich-exoplanets.html ... another interesting research paper. It skirts around the mainstream narrative but manages to get across a different way of looking at the

At https://spaceweather.com ... on October 31st we learnt that Earth was passing through a stream of slow moving Halloween fireballs. This is the origin of

At https://dailygalaxy.com/2025/10/scientists-found-dinosaur-tail-amber/ ... a small piece from a dinosaur tail, complete with bones, soft tissue, and feathers, has been discovered in amber from Myanmar [formerly

At https://phys.org/news/2025-10-scientists-elusive-solar-power-sun.html ... solar physicists, via astronomers, have found evidence of small scale torsional Alfven waves in the Sun's corona. These magnetic waves, or electro-magnetic

At https://phys.org/news/2025-10-island-ancient-rifting-reshaped-madagascar.html ... Madagascar's landscape tells a geological story, we are told. Ancient rifting and tilting of its landscape sculpted its dramatic topography. Madagascar also

Dating pharaoh Ahmose, first king of dynasty 18 - by c14 methodology. At https://phys.org/news/2025-10-radiocarbon-dating-egyptian-artifacts-thera.html ... this is a peculiar one that we may suppose will

Robert sent in a couple of links worth posting. I'll be brief but the impetus came from reading https://phys.org/news/2025-10-extreme-jet-streams-giant-planets.html ... which is a modeling study.

It may not have happened - in spite of texts telling a tale of a grand epidemic in the Bronze age world. At https://phys.org/news/2025-10-ancient-egyptian-plague-akhetaten.html ...

At https://phys.org/news/2025-10-north-american-ice-sheets-drove.html ... a research paper with some questions we might flag. We are told  melting ice sheets in North America played a greater role