In the News

At www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-8705719/ ... a hillfort on Arthur's Seat, soaring above Edinburgh but commanding a view of the Firth of Forth. The ramparts are in the

This is a good one. Sent in by Gary. We have two links, https://www.space.com/37654-exoplanet-55-cranci-e-facts.html ... www.planetary.org/articles/the-different-kinds-of-exoplanets-you-meet-in... ... and here we have the different kind of

At https://phys.org/news/2020-09-japan-geologic-history-discovery-metamorph... ... Japan's geological history is now in question after the discovery of metamorphic rock with microdiamonds in it. Researchers in Japan have discovered

William sent in the link to www.yahoo.com/news/mammoth-central-found-mexico-airport-222432079.html ... and Robert sent in https://phys.org/news/2020-09-mammoth-central-mexico-airport-site.html ... which is a story that hit the media a couple of

At www.jewishpress.com/news/israel/jerusalem/magnificent-remains-of-judaean... ... the remains of a first temple period palace has been discovered under Jerusalem's promenade. These include carved stone which seem to have

William has compiled some futher information on the 1859 Carrington Event. In 'The Sun Kings: the unexpected tragedy of Richard Carrington and the Tale of

At https://phys.org/news/2020-09-decades-evolution-spiral-galaxies.html ... a new study questions decades of research on the evolution of spiral galaxies. This might be a game changer, as they say.

At https://phys.org/news/2020-09-dating-nebra-sky-disk.html ... the Nebra Sun Disc has previously been dated to early European Bronze Age ....   ... German archaeologists have re-analysed  the data

At https://spaceweather.com (September 1st 2020) it would seem that on September 1st 1859 a ferocious solar storm engulfed our planet - breaching the magnetosphere, to

At https://phys.org/news/2020-08-3d-embryonic-sauropod-dinosaur-reveals.html ... a fossil titanosuar embryo with a modified 'egg tooth' or horn (an appendage of some kind that was apparently used to break

At https://phys.org/news/2020-08-fossil-trees-peru-central-andean.html ... published in Science Advances  - see https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aaz4724 ... or https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/35/eaaz4724.full ... researchers from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute found a large fossil

Gary sent in 3 smashing links - all from the Daily Mail. The stories have done the rounds in the media, including at PhysOrg and

At https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2020/08/26/black-turbine-blade-can-cut-b... ... for years wind turbine operators denied their contraptions kill any birds. They even employ people to go round each day and pick

At https://phys.org/news/2020-08-hubble-giant-halo-andromeda-galaxy.html ... NASA sientists, using the Hubble Space Telescope, have mapped out an immense envelope of gas, called a halo, surrounding the Andromeda galaxy,

At https://sputniknews.com/science/202008271080280560-siberia-was-major-cen... ... genetic studies, as outlined by Paul Reich, show that Siberia had an extensive population during the Late Glacial Maximum. The comments at

At https://spaceweather.com (26th August 2020) ... earth has entered a stream of high speed solar wind, not from a sun spot as the face of

Robert sent in this link and added, it seems that when Velikosky suggested Venus and Mars may have had errant orbits that was inadmissable but

At https://cultureandcosmos.org/pdfs/16/MacKie_INSAPVII_Stonehenge.pdf ... Euan MacKie, a founder member of SIS, on Stonehenge. He usually confines himself to the archaeology of Scotland but on this occasion

At www.geosociety.org/GSA/News/pr/2020/20-04.aspx ... in Australia the arrival and dispersal of early humans is complicted by a lack of ceramics and permanent structures. Aborigines were mobile,

At www.scotsman.com/heritage-and-retro/discoveries-iona-rewrite-history-sac... ... discoveries on Iona show the sacred isle was not abandoned following Viking raids in the early 9th century AD. Monastic life continued.