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At www.geolsoc.org.uk/Geoscientist/Archive/June-2009/Early-migrant-fell-asl... ... this site archive is proving to be something of a treasure trove and well worth exploring with a beady eye. This time

At www.geolsoc.org.uk/Geoscientist/Archive/July-2017/OLS-Jurassic-Brexit ... actually, the  first sign of the rift began in the Triassic but it was accelerated in the mid Jurassic. At this time

The Japanese space mission to the asteroid Ryugu was a success and it is now on its way to meet another asteroid even further away.

According to the Indpendent dogs are now contributing to archaeology - and they have a picture of a dog to prove it, using its big

At https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2021/02/02/unmatched-dust-storms-raged-o... ... another story about dustg. This time, during the frozen landscapes of the last Ice Age. Huge dust storms swirled across the frozen

William sent in a link to this story. It is about scientists trying to understand why it was greener in the Sahara during the early

Rep G3 inhibits the SARS2 coronavirus induced IL-6 IL-1b TNFa & IL-9 cytokines which cause COVID-19 disease. This is a nwly developed safe and effective

Coinciding with the election win by you know who we suddenly have a study that purports to show Holocene temperatures were the equivalent of the

At https://phys.org/news/2021-01-purported-phosphine-venus-ordinary-sulfur.... ... in September, and posted on the News, a team in the UK claimed they had detected the chemical phosphine in the thick

Gary  sent in a link to this story at www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9192955/ ... but you can also read it at https://phys.org/news/2021-01-geological-phenomenon-widening-atlantic-oc... ... but the Daily Mail has

William sent in a link via Yahoo to this story but we can also read it at https://phys.org/news/2021-01-gigantic-dinosaur-unearthed-argentina-larg... ... Agentinosaurus was found in 2012 but

Gary also sent in this link to the discovery that mammoths and horses may have carried on living in North America much later than the

The Scotsman also has news of the unexpected discovery of a cursus monument, a kilometer in length, found on the Isle of Arran - see

Another study seeking to explain an anomaly. Did the nitrogen on earth have an origin in the rocks that make up the crust. See https://phys.org/news/2021-01-earth-nitrogen-locally-sourced.html

Lateral thinking at the Scotsman media outlet - or is that vertical thinking [see www.scotsman.com/heritage-and-retro/heritage/new-stone-age-immigrants-fr... ]. This is a new look at the onset of

At https://phys.org/news/2021-01-scientists-black-holes-stupendously-large.... ... whilst small to medium size black holes continue to remain invisible cosmologists are now putting forward the idea there are stupendously large

At www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2021/01/15/the-lake-victoria-cosmic-massacre-2/ ... the author, Mungo Jupp, ask's - is there a connection between Australia's lunettes and Carolina's oval bays? The lunettes are scattered around

This is bracketed under catastrophism as the 14th century famines and plagues were catastrophic. It is also assigned to catastrophism as a lot of this

Links sent in by Gary who has some interesting ideas on Egyptian iconography and history. As far as I can tell this story is only

At https://phys.org/news/2021-01-mistaken-identity-presumed-supernova-rever... ... here we have mainstream backtracking on itself. Astronomers thought they were looking at a supernova but oddly it appeared to recurr on