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At https://phys.org/news/2020-09-dating-nebra-sky-disk.html ... the Nebra Sun Disc has previously been dated to early European Bronze Age ....   ... German archaeologists have re-analysed  the data

At https://spaceweather.com (September 1st 2020) it would seem that on September 1st 1859 a ferocious solar storm engulfed our planet - breaching the magnetosphere, to

At https://phys.org/news/2020-08-3d-embryonic-sauropod-dinosaur-reveals.html ... a fossil titanosuar embryo with a modified 'egg tooth' or horn (an appendage of some kind that was apparently used to break

At https://phys.org/news/2020-08-fossil-trees-peru-central-andean.html ... published in Science Advances  - see https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aaz4724 ... or https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/35/eaaz4724.full ... researchers from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute found a large fossil

Gary sent in 3 smashing links - all from the Daily Mail. The stories have done the rounds in the media, including at PhysOrg and

At https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2020/08/26/black-turbine-blade-can-cut-b... ... for years wind turbine operators denied their contraptions kill any birds. They even employ people to go round each day and pick

At https://phys.org/news/2020-08-hubble-giant-halo-andromeda-galaxy.html ... NASA sientists, using the Hubble Space Telescope, have mapped out an immense envelope of gas, called a halo, surrounding the Andromeda galaxy,

At https://sputniknews.com/science/202008271080280560-siberia-was-major-cen... ... genetic studies, as outlined by Paul Reich, show that Siberia had an extensive population during the Late Glacial Maximum. The comments at

At https://spaceweather.com (26th August 2020) ... earth has entered a stream of high speed solar wind, not from a sun spot as the face of

Robert sent in this link and added, it seems that when Velikosky suggested Venus and Mars may have had errant orbits that was inadmissable but

At https://cultureandcosmos.org/pdfs/16/MacKie_INSAPVII_Stonehenge.pdf ... Euan MacKie, a founder member of SIS, on Stonehenge. He usually confines himself to the archaeology of Scotland but on this occasion

At www.geosociety.org/GSA/News/pr/2020/20-04.aspx ... in Australia the arrival and dispersal of early humans is complicted by a lack of ceramics and permanent structures. Aborigines were mobile,

At www.scotsman.com/heritage-and-retro/discoveries-iona-rewrite-history-sac... ... discoveries on Iona show the sacred isle was not abandoned following Viking raids in the early 9th century AD. Monastic life continued.

At https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/08/21/a-lightning-barrage-puts-the-west... ... during late August hudreds of fires have ignited as a result of hundreds of lightning strikes over western USA. Major fires were

At https://phys.org/news/2020-08-robotic-telescope-closest-asteroid-earth.html ... on August 16th a robotic survey camera at Palomar Observatory near San Diego spotted an asteroid, or lump of rock, that had

At https://phys.org/news/2020-08-black-hole-powers-jet-magnetic.html ... here we have an admission that the black hole in the heart of galaxies has an electro-magnetic connection. The downside is that

At https://phys.org/news/2020-08-dinosaurs-unique-bone-key-weight.html ... weighing upt to 8000lb the Hadrosaur, or duck billed dinosaurs, were among the largest dinosaurs to roam the earth. How did theri

Gary sent in a link to www.nationalgeographic.com/history/2020/08/mysterious-carvings-evidence-... ... mysterious carvings and evidence of human sacrifice uncovered at an ancient chinese city. Apart from the click

Sent in by William. At www.yahoo.com/news/pothole-space-evolving-dent-earths-141150074.html ... there is an evolving dent in earth's magnetic field over South America and the South Atlantic. NASA is

At https://phys.org/news/2020-08-mystery-gas-center-milky.html ... a mystery gas has been detected seeping out of the centre of the Milky Way, a dense cold gas apparently. Exactly how