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At https://spaceweather.com (3th May 2020) we learn that Comet Swan has cross the celestial equator and is now visible to observers in the northern hemisphere.

Sent in by Gary. At www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-8307869/ ... a couple of days ago we learned the moon could not have been formed by an impact as

Robert sent a link to this story but see www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-8296741/ ... carbon emissions detected on the moon. Does this bring into question the mainstream number

Here we have some catastrophic flooding - on Mars and beneath the Greenland ice sheet. Courtesy of Gary again. At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/04/200430150302.htm ... and https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-04/uoma-hco043020.php ...

Comet Swan. An unexpected outburst from Comet Swan means it is now eyeball visible - if you can see beyond the full moon. See https://spaceweather.com

This is a cracker as well. At https://phys.org/news/2020-05-fossil-reveals-evidence-million-year-old-s... .... a fossil from the Jurassic coast of Dorset found in the 19th century has had a

An amateur archaeologist and photographer has discovered what looks like two hidden hill forts by the use of laser light technology. Fantastic work - see

Robert sent in this one and it is a cracker - go to https://phys.org/news/2020-05-window-world-life-seafloor-petroleum.html ... window to another world beneath the waves, bubbling up on

At https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2020/04/new-fossils-rewrite-... ... you could have fooled me but we are told here that scientists have long opposed the idea that dinosaurs lived in aquatic

It's raining plasma on the sun. A massive prominence is jutting out and its leaking plasma - see https://spaceweather.com (5th May 2020). Mysteriously, some of

Actually, the title is wrong. Why people do not seem to have suffered the same dramatic effects of the Black Death in earlier incidents of

At https://spaceweather.com (30th April 2020) we have an image of Comet Swan with a very long tail trailing behind. It will make its closest approach

At arch warmer site https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/04/a-puzzling-past-sea-level-rise-m... .... tells us sea levels have jumped surprisingly quickly and steeply in the past. It is funny how problems for

At https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/04/ancient-mongol-warrior-women-may... .... the story of Mulan, who disguises herself as a man to fight for the Chinese emperor, may have been inspired by real

This post was prompted by a question from a member of SIS - what is the progress and current thinking on the Meghalayan? Well, they

This is one of those quotes that might haunt the interviewee. At https://phys.org/news/2020-04-laws-nature-downright-weird-constant.html ... in this study we are told new findings suggest the laws

At www.heritagedaily.com/2020/04/study-traces-spread-of-early-dairy-farming... ... study traces the spread of early dairy farming across western Europe. This is down to the new technique of chemically analysing food

On its way on Wednesday, a big rock passing by - see https://spaceweather.com April 28th 2020 ...

At https://phys.org/news/2020-04-tomanowos-meteorite-survived-mega-floods-h... ... this is about an iron meteorite find in Oregon, the so called Willamette meteor. The local Indian tribe, the Clackamas, called it

At https://phys.org/news/2020-04-fossil-frogs-insights-ancient-antarctica.html ... the discovery of the earliest known modern amphibians in Antarctica suggests, once again, a warm and temperate climate prevailed in the Antartic