In the News

At https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/08/21/a-lightning-barrage-puts-the-west... ... during late August hudreds of fires have ignited as a result of hundreds of lightning strikes over western USA. Major fires were

At https://phys.org/news/2020-08-robotic-telescope-closest-asteroid-earth.html ... on August 16th a robotic survey camera at Palomar Observatory near San Diego spotted an asteroid, or lump of rock, that had

At https://phys.org/news/2020-08-black-hole-powers-jet-magnetic.html ... here we have an admission that the black hole in the heart of galaxies has an electro-magnetic connection. The downside is that

At https://phys.org/news/2020-08-dinosaurs-unique-bone-key-weight.html ... weighing upt to 8000lb the Hadrosaur, or duck billed dinosaurs, were among the largest dinosaurs to roam the earth. How did theri

Gary sent in a link to www.nationalgeographic.com/history/2020/08/mysterious-carvings-evidence-... ... mysterious carvings and evidence of human sacrifice uncovered at an ancient chinese city. Apart from the click

Sent in by William. At www.yahoo.com/news/pothole-space-evolving-dent-earths-141150074.html ... there is an evolving dent in earth's magnetic field over South America and the South Atlantic. NASA is

At https://phys.org/news/2020-08-mystery-gas-center-milky.html ... a mystery gas has been detected seeping out of the centre of the Milky Way, a dense cold gas apparently. Exactly how

This is an interesting story at https://phys.org/news/2020-08-microbes-air-global-phenomenon.html ... researchers have found bacteria living on air in Antarctica. They think it probably occurs globally and set

At https://phys.org/news/2020-08-ancient-giants-small-oddbal-australia.html ... Little and Large were a UK comedy duo. Very often corny, but amusing as far as family audiences are concerned. In this

At https://phys.org/news/2020-08-sun-life-binary-companion.html ... our Sun may have had a binary companion at one time. This is presented as a new theory by Harvard scientists publishing

Coming back down to earth we have the August newsletter from www.sepp.org ... which is a review of what happened in July on the climate

William sent in this link to a story that has been fairly popular across the internet as well as in media sources with a strong

At https://phys.org/news/2020-08-ancient-genomes-woolly-rhinos-extinct.html ... ancient genomes suggest the woolly rhinocerus went extinct due to climate change - not from overhunting. On the face of it, this

As expected, this subject has popped up on Thunderbolts. A post by Stephen Smith at www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2020/08/07/martian-glaciers/ ... and as one would think they have a

At https://phys.org/news/2020-08-ancient-north-american-reptiles-island.html .... a study from the University of Bristol has uncovered fossils of small reptiles that lived in South Wales 205 million years ago.

A few years ago we had an example of a Finnish lake sediment database used upside down in order to demonstrate the idea of global

At www.heritagedaily.com/2020/08/new-findings-dispel-the-view-that-australi... ... evidence that Aborigines cultivated bananas has been conclusively found in the Torres Strait. This should come as no surprise as in New

At https://phys.org/news/2020-08-secrets-international-carbon-dating-standa... ... (also at www.heritagedaily.com/2020/08/researchers-unlock-secrets-of-the-past-wit...) ... a team of researchers from the universities of Sheffield, Belfast, Bristol, Glasgow and St Andrews, in collaboration with

An interesting riposte by an Australian geologist of note, Ian Plimer, to climate alarmist reporters who took exception to an article of his in The

At https://phys.org/news/2020-08-power-deinosuchus-teeth-size-bananas.html .... I can remember one of my grandsons enthusiastically describing the size of this crocodile's teeth some years ago. He missed a trick