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At https://phys.org/news/2020-04-atmospheric-tidal-venus-super-rotation.html ... atmospheric tidal waves maintain the super rotation speed of Venus - courtesy of Hokkaido University (Japan). The tidal waves are formed from

At https://phys.org/news/2020-04-alma-reveals-unusual-composition-interstel... ... ALMA, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, has disovered some unusual things about interstellar Comet Borisov, late last year (December 2019). They observed

Planet 9 is somewhat different to Planet X as it is projected, or was invented, in order to explain anomalies in the orbits of objects

At https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2020/04/20/methane-forms-under-space-con... ... methane forms under space conditions simulated in a laboratory in Leiden University (the Netherlands). Methane is the main ingredient of natural gas

At www.scientificamerican.com/article/do-we-live-in-a-lopsided-universe/ ... which is another take on the possibility the unverse is not the same in every direction. Recent findings say clusters of galaxies

ASt www.heritagedaily.com/2020/04/researchers-challenge-accuracy-of-methods-... ... researchers challenge the accuracy of methods that analyse trees of life. The paper is published in Nature (April 2020). Two scientists argue

With a headline like that it must be click bait. The link is at https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/04/probable-roman-shipwrecks-uneart... ... and so it is. It is not a coal

This story has been in archaeological news for some time but it has now gone unbridled - see www.heritagedaily.com/2020/04/melting-ice-reveals-lost-viking-artefacts-... ... in Norway hundreds of rare

Comet Atlas has no sooner disintegrated that another bright comet has been tracked on its way towards the sun - Comet Swan. See https://spaceweather.com 14th

At https://cosmictusk.com/life-and-disease-and-corona-virus-from-space/ ... an interview conducted by Dr Predrag Slijipcevic of Brunel University in Hillingdon in west London. Chandra Wickramasinghe, on the other hand, hails

At www.heritagedaily.com/2020/04/origin-of-the-first-known-interstellar-obj... ... on an article published in Nature Astronomy (April 2020) https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-020-1065-8 ... what was the origin of the interstellar object Oumoumua? Where did

The corona virus episode has exposed an inconvenient fact - see https://notrickszone.com/2020/04/14/corona-exposes-inconvenient-truth-po... ... the inconvenient truth is that green activists have overhyped levels of pollution

Stolen from the Tall Bloke - the headline that is. Nice video - see https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2020/04/13/black-hole-conundrum/ ... a video ofa supermassive black hole spewing a brilliant

Comet Atlas has fragmented ... now evidently true (https://spaceweather.com April 14th ) ....    ... around the world amateur astronomers are witnessing the falling apart.

William sent in this link - https://eos.org/articles/armageddon-at-10000-bce ... Armageddon is in the Revelation of John, the last book of the Bible. It is a play

At www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-8016539/ ... a Canaanite temple destroyed at the end of the Late Bronze age has been unearthed at Lachish. The media pieces goes on

At https://popular-archaeology.com/article/movement-of-early-humans-into-th... ... the movement of humans into the Indian subcontinent looks at the routes they might have taken - by coastal hugging or coming

Sent in by Robert. AtlanticAt https://phys.org/news/2020-04-ancient-teeth-peru-hint-now.html ... ancient teeth from fossilised monkey discovered deep in Amazonia - as far west as Peru. It is said

Doubting Thomases are thinking the unthinkable. At https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/04/10/doubts-about-basic-assumption-for... ... a new study by the universities of Bonn and Harvard question fundamental principles of cosmology. Since

At https://phys.org/news/2020-04-images-reveal-fine-threads-million-degree.... ... researchers at the University of central Lancashire unveil the highest ever resolution images of the Sun - and provide a clue on