In the News

This is an interesting story at https://phys.org/news/2020-08-microbes-air-global-phenomenon.html ... researchers have found bacteria living on air in Antarctica. They think it probably occurs globally and set

At https://phys.org/news/2020-08-ancient-giants-small-oddbal-australia.html ... Little and Large were a UK comedy duo. Very often corny, but amusing as far as family audiences are concerned. In this

At https://phys.org/news/2020-08-sun-life-binary-companion.html ... our Sun may have had a binary companion at one time. This is presented as a new theory by Harvard scientists publishing

Coming back down to earth we have the August newsletter from www.sepp.org ... which is a review of what happened in July on the climate

William sent in this link to a story that has been fairly popular across the internet as well as in media sources with a strong

At https://phys.org/news/2020-08-ancient-genomes-woolly-rhinos-extinct.html ... ancient genomes suggest the woolly rhinocerus went extinct due to climate change - not from overhunting. On the face of it, this

As expected, this subject has popped up on Thunderbolts. A post by Stephen Smith at www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2020/08/07/martian-glaciers/ ... and as one would think they have a

At https://phys.org/news/2020-08-ancient-north-american-reptiles-island.html .... a study from the University of Bristol has uncovered fossils of small reptiles that lived in South Wales 205 million years ago.

A few years ago we had an example of a Finnish lake sediment database used upside down in order to demonstrate the idea of global

At www.heritagedaily.com/2020/08/new-findings-dispel-the-view-that-australi... ... evidence that Aborigines cultivated bananas has been conclusively found in the Torres Strait. This should come as no surprise as in New

At https://phys.org/news/2020-08-secrets-international-carbon-dating-standa... ... (also at www.heritagedaily.com/2020/08/researchers-unlock-secrets-of-the-past-wit...) ... a team of researchers from the universities of Sheffield, Belfast, Bristol, Glasgow and St Andrews, in collaboration with

An interesting riposte by an Australian geologist of note, Ian Plimer, to climate alarmist reporters who took exception to an article of his in The

At https://phys.org/news/2020-08-power-deinosuchus-teeth-size-bananas.html .... I can remember one of my grandsons enthusiastically describing the size of this crocodile's teeth some years ago. He missed a trick

Sent in by William. At https://www.yahoo.com/news/fossil-fearsome-hell-ant-used-183903680.html ... the fossil of a hell ant, belonging to the Cretaceous, is described as a fearsome beast. Captured in

At https://spaceweather.com (6th August, 2020) .. we are told that cycle 25 is now definitely coming to life. We even have a sunspot facing in

This one comes courtesy of Hokkaido University - see www.global.hokudai.ac.jp/blog/new-insight-into-the-origin-of-water-on-th... ... with the actual research paper published in Scientific Reports - see https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-64815-6 ... Japanese

At https://spaceweather.com  (3rd August 2020) .. a stream of solar wind has arrived and is causing geomagnetic  unrest around the poles. It is blowing out

The link was sent in by Robert - go to https://crev.info/2020/08/scientists-retract-dino-bird-paper/ ... which takes us back to a small fossil found in amber. It was

At https://notrickszone.com/2020/08/03/during-the-last-glacial-maximum-fire... ... during the Late Glaical Maximum, when ice sheets are thought to have been at their greatest extent (in the last 100,000 years),

Sent in by William and sitting in my 'to do' tray for a couple of weeks. At www.yahoo.com/news/archaeologists-solved-longstanding-mystery-stonehenge... ... which concerns the big sarsen stones.