In the News

At www.heritagedaily.com/2021/08/thousands-of-human-and-animal-bones-hoarde... ... were they taken into the cave system slowly over a long period of time or were they washed into the lava tubes

At https://phys.org/news/2021-08-people-philippines-denisovan-dna.html ... Negrito remnant populations living in the Philippines, suc as the Ayta Magbuken, preserves the highest level of Denisovan DNA and ancestry -

Sent in by Gary www.newscientist.com/article/2285964-the-moon-may-never-actually-have-ha... ... fresh analysis of Apollo moon rocks suggest the moon did not have a magnetic field of its own. Researchers

The block of upland between the Herefordshire Golden Valley and the Wye river valley is fast becoming revealed as the hosts of an integrated Neolithic

Probably already done this one as well but see https://phys.org/news/2021-08-space-scientists-reveal-secret-jupiter.html ... an international team of scientists have explained the mechanism behind Jupiter's atmospheric heating, or

I think we have been here before but William sent in this link to https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/310-million-old-horseshoe-crab-174134689... ... a recent discovery of a 310 million year old

William sent in the link https://www.yahoo.com/news/dinosaur-bones-became-griffins-volcanic-12404... ... geomythology has produced some very interesting parallels between, shall we say, geology and legends. However, it can also

This story is at https://www.livescience.com/stonehenge-pillars-mesozoic.html ... and https://www.sciencealert.com/rediscovered-chunk-of-stone-henge-gives-a-g... ... Back in  1958, during restoration work at Stonehenge, one of the uprights was found to be

William sends me the odd climate change link but the subject comes with a lot of dedicated true believers and anything to the contrary is

At https://phys.org/news/2021-07-black-hole.html ... peering at X-rays flaring out of a black hole 800 million light years away, a series of smaller flashes of light were

There are some interesting reads in the latest issue of Current World Archaeology [108 August 2021] - see past issues at www.world-archaeology.com - but one

At https://phys.org/news/2021-07-unravelling-knotty-problem-sun.html ... unravelling a knotty problem of activity on the sun by untwisting and twisting magnetic field lines. At https://wattsupwiththat.com/2021/07/23/can-we-predict-long-term-solar-va... .. a post by

William sent in the link to www.yahoo.com/news/strange-behaviour-earths-core-reveals-182721717.html ... the temperature in the core of the earth is thought to be almost as hot as the

At https://phys.org/news/2021-07-long-period-oscillations-sun.html .... long period oscillations of the sun have been discovered. They have been predicted for a long time but modern telescope studies of

At https://phys.org/news/2021-07-physicists-sun-electric-field.html ... University of Iowa physicists, using the Parker Solar Probe data, have calculated the distribution of electrons within the Sun's electric field. Electrons

At https://phys.org/news/2021-07-megaripples-evidence-giant-tsunami-resulti... ... it seems a megatsunami wave did occur as a result of the Chicxulub asteroid strike at the K/Pg boundary [formerly K/T]. Two

Another link sent in by Robert - www.livescience.com/preserved-DNA-sampled-sheep-mummy.html .... pristine DNA from a sheep leg found in a salt mine in Iran, carbon dated to

At https://phys.org/news/2021-07-largest-comet.html ... the recently discovered  new visitor to the outer edge of the visible solar system is one of the biggest comets ever recorded,

One Billion Years in 40 seconds -see the video at www.visualcapitalist.com/1-billion-years-of-tectonic-plate-movement/ .. to be precise, one billion years of tectonic plate movement as perceived by

At www.livescience.com/bronze-age-infinity-pool-supernatural-rituals.html ... a mysterious wooden structure built in Italy 3000 years ago may have been a bronze age 'infinity pool' that reflected the sky