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At https://phys.org/news/2024-09-astronomers-biggest-black-hole-jets.html .... as well as numerous other science blogs such as https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/09/240918125024.html ... the appearance of jets emanating from the centre of galaxies is 

At https://www.sciencealert.com/this-epic-monument-from-6000-years-ago-is-a-feat-of-stone-age-engineering ... the dolmen of Menga was built around 6000 years ago - and still stands to this day. It was built of stones

At https://www.livescience.com/space/asteroids/new-study-reveals-god-chaos-asteroid-apophis-could-still-hit-earth-in-2029-but-we-won-t-find-out-for-3 more-years..... a new simulation reveals there is a small chance the asteroid Apophis could be nudged on to a collision course with the

At https://phys.org/news/2024-09-roman-siege-masada-weeks-years.html ... researchers from Tel Aviv University have used modern technology, such as drones and remote sensing, to generate an analysis of the Roman

At  https://phys.org/news/2024-09-uk-ireland-climate-tropical-million.html ... we are told that 26 million years ago the climate in the UK and Ireland was tropical. The assumption is the globe,

Cosmology theory does on occasion seem to be strange - or even stranger. It is, however, resistant to critique from outside the astrophysical world. Still,

At https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/volcanos/tonga-eruption-tha-poured-150-metric-tons-of water-vapor-into-the-stratosphere-affected-the-atmosphere-for-years .... the Tonga submarine volcano which shot 150 metric tons of water vapour into the stratosphere will affect Earth's climate for years.

William sent in a link to a massive tsunami wave that struck the east coast of North America - https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/the-three-mile-high-tsunami-that-churned-the-entire-east-cost/ss-AA1qMfuJ ....

Firstly, Gary sent a link to a You Tube film - on Doggerland. Lots of pictures. Doggerland [bottom of the southern basin of the North

At https://phys.org/news/2024-09-archaeologists-neolithic-scandinavians-skin-boats.html ... the Scandinavian Pitted Ware Culture may have used skin boats to travel, to fish, to trade, and to hunt seals and fish

At https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/09/240904130925.htm ... we are told a new model is able to identify phases of human dispersal across Europe. They were looking at population densities

Amazing picture of a rainbow outburst of aurora over Ostersund in Sweden - at https://spaceweather.com ... on the 12th and 13th of September of 2024.

At https://phys.org/news/2024-09-century-theory-big.html ... and https://doi.org/10.3390/particles7030041 ... Fritz Zwicky, back in the inter war years, proposed that galaxies that were now distant from the earth did

At https://www.livescience.com/space/the-sun/sunspots-surge-to-23-year-high-as-solar-maximum-continues-to-intensify-far-beyond-initial-expectations .... the number of visible dark patches on the Sun's surface, as we see it, in the month of August, was higher than

In January of 1912 German geophgysicist Alfred Wegener proposed the idea of continental drift. Mainstream thought he was mistaken. Badly. At https://www.sciencealert.com/matching-dinosaur-footprints-found-3700-miles-apart-reveal-earths-past ... Wegener had

This is a fascinating subject and one that has huge ramifications as far as ancient history is concerned. How big can an earthquake be? Robert

William sent in a link to an MSN story. A couple of months ago geologists claimed the blue stones at Stonehenge mainly came from Wales

At https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/08/240812160244.htm ... earthquakes and meteor impacts on Mars generate seismic waves that are used to map the planet's interior.  The same thing is done

Geologists, exploring the seabed off Lanzarote in the Canaries, using a remotely operated vehicle, at depths of 330 to 8200 feet, have discovered lost islands

Gary sent in the link https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/moon-turned-itself-inside-out-to-form-surface-we-see-today-scientists-discover/ar-BB1lh2vS ... well, sort of - but a quirky headlne. The moon turned itself inside out to form the surface