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At https://phys.org/news/2020-09-modern-humans-westernmost-europe-years.html ... modern humans, in a new study, are said to have arrived in the westernmost parts of Europe between 41,000 and 38,000 years

At https://phys.org/news/2020-09-venus-upstart-company-nasa-life.html ... Peter Beck of Rocket Lab has set is sights on launching a low cost probe into the atmosphere of Venus after learning

At https://phys.org/news/2020-09-neandertals-male-sex-chromosome-modern.html ... the Neanderthal DNA sequence was first done in 1997 - but only on the skeletons of females. It was therefore based on

At https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2020/09/23/ecologists-confirm-alan-turin... ... which is said to solve the mystery. It seems Alan Turing's model explains the striking vegetation patterns that modify habitats and arid

At https://spaceweather.com [23rd September 2020] .. in a paper published in Nature Astronomy researchers describe how Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko was seen to turn vaporous jets of

Sent in by Gary. At www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-8757271/ ... Spirosaurus is known from its teeth as much as from its bones. It is reputed to be the

Kevin sent in the link to www.sci-news.com/archaeology/alathar-footprints-08869.html ... human footprints going  back 120,000 years have been found in northern Saudi Arabia - together with those

Buried Alive. At https://phys.org/news/2020-09-eternal-sleeper-dinosaurs-unearthed-china.... ... another case of sleeping dinosaurs, in a hidie hole, being overwhelmed, buried, and preserved as a stone fossil.  ...  It

This was also sent in by Venus. William may also have sent in a link. At https://news.sky.com/story/signs-of-alien-life-detected-on-venus-12071625 ... signs of alien life detected on Venus.

One to make you think. Gary sent in this link - www.newscientist.com/article/mg24732940-800-a-radical-new-theory-rewrite... ... a radical  new theory rewrits the story of how life on earth

Robert sent in two links. the first one is at https://siberiantimes.com/other/others/news/first-ever-preserved-grown-u... ... the first ever preserved adult cave bear has been found on an island

This story  has surface once again as a result of further studies - see https://phys.org/news/2020-09-widespread-literacy-biblical-period-kingdo... ... a new study concerns widespread literacy in the Biblical

At https://phys.org/news/2020-09-reveal-richer-picture-dna-recovery.html ... a new technique has led to the extraction of DNA from soil for analysis, pulling the genomes of hundreds of animals and

At https://phys.org/news/2020-09-giant-particle-sky.html ... the earth's magnetic field traps high energy particles in order to thwart their entry into the atmosphere. When the first satellites were

The sponge is the interior of a comet and the cavities are on the sun. At https://phys.org/news/2020-09-presence-resonating-cavities-sunspots.html ... sun spots are darker regions that appear

Link sent in by Kevin - www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/news/local-news/remains-grantham-road-archaeo... ... the remains of humans and ancient buildings have been unearthed during the construction of a by pass

Robert sent in this link - www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-8718291/ ... Storm Francis, or Frankie, has exposed parts of a petrified Welsh forest  that has been submerged for

At https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/05/26/dinosaur-dooming-asteroid-struck-... ... the asteroid that struck earth at the K/T boundary came in at an angle of 60 degrees according to a new study.

At first I thought from the headline they were talking about petrified forests, but no. The stone forests (a sea of trees) are the pointy

At https://phys.org/news/2020-09-blast-black-hole.html ... more properly, how to have a blast like a black hole. Researchers at Osaka University have successfully used short but powerful laser