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William sent in the link www.yahoo.com/news/oldest-largest-ancient-maya-structure-151016465.html ... but the story is also available elsewhere - such as https://phys.org/news/2020-06-largest-oldest-maya-monument-importance.html ... LiDAR technology, from an aeroplane, has

At www.upi.com/Science_News/2020/06/Neanderthals-Denisovans-humans-genetica... ... Here we have it - from the horses mouth (or so it would seem looking at the headline). Neanderthals and Denisovans and

Cosmic Tusk have been pushing the idea Covid 19 arrived from space - in an exploding meteor. See for example https://cosmictusk.com/cosmos-magazine-disease-from-space-article-suspic... ... funnily enough the

At www.heritagedaily.com/2020/05/chinese-pterodactyl-wings-its-way-to-the-u... ... Britain's first pterodactyl fossil, a jawbone in fact, was found by a fossil hunter on the Isle of Wight (near Sandown). It

At https://phys.org/news/2020-06-patterns-spiral-galaxies-universe.html ... an analysis of spiral galaxies has revealed unexpected links between spin structures and galaxies and the structure formed by them. It may

At https://spaceweather.com (June 1st 2020) we have a short video captured over New Mexico and Texas - a magnificent jelly fish sprite followed by a

At https://sciencex.com/news/2020-05-fossil-discovery-reveals-earliest-rela... .... a fossil discovery reveals the earliest relative of modern mammals - going back 300 million years ago. That is a very long

At https://anthropology.net/2020/05/30/ancient-dna-from-france-outline-comp... ... the early farmers that moved through the Balkans into eastern and central Europe did not mix with the local hunter gatherers it

At https://phys.org/news/2020-05-genomic-analysis-long-term-genetic-west.html ... genomic analysis shows a long  term genetic mixing across western Asia - going back deep into the Holocene. The region includes Anatolia

William sent in this link www.yahoo.com/news/mammoth-skeletons-dug-mexico-city-155124553.html ... mammoth skeletons dug up during construction of an airport at Mexico City. To date, 70 mammoths have been

At https://spaceweather.com (May 29th 2020) we have news of a big solar flare on one of the flanks of the Sun. Flare activity appears to

At https://phys.org/news/2020-05-earliest-evidence-italians-extraordinary-g... ... during the Laste Glacial Maximum, when an ice sheet covered a goodly portion of Britain and Swiss mountain glaciers were at maximum

Sent in by Robert. Astgeroids that sprout  comet like tails.  See for example https://phys.org/news/2020-05-atlas-telescope-first-of-its-kind-asteroid... .... an asteroid sporting a tail. ATLAS is designed to scan

At https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2020/05/27/the-induced-magnetosphere-of-... ... the induced magnetosphere of Mars. Five years after NASAs MAVEN spacecraft entered into orbit around Mars data from the  mission has led

Chris Gatling's column in Current World Archaeology 101 June 2020 (see www.world-archaeology.com ) ... takes a brief look at a study carried out by geneticists

At www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/theres-a-russian-volcano-that-erup... ... a Russian volcano erupts diamonds. Rather, very tiny diamonds created by crystallisation of volcanic gases. The volcano is actually situated in the

Another re-calibration of C14 dating is underway. It could shift prehistoric dates by hundreds of years. Why? Well, just look at what it is going

At https://phys.org/news/2020-05-sky-comet-swan.html ... the image below was taken by a UK astrophotograper, Damian Peach ...    ... unfortunately, it won't be easy to see the

At https://phys.org/news/2020-05-ancient-giant-armored-fish-fed.html ... another example of evolution reproducing similar niche feeding habitats as a result of similarities in niche environments. These concern different geological periods.

At https://phys.org/news/2020-05-supercomputer-simulations-reveal-neanderth... ... opne for the fairies. Perhaps. It involves climate scientists. Not a good start. Then we get into supercomputers and simulations. The idea