In the News

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.

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