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At https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/04/ancient-mongol-warrior-women-may... .... the story of Mulan, who disguises herself as a man to fight for the Chinese emperor, may have been inspired by real

This post was prompted by a question from a member of SIS - what is the progress and current thinking on the Meghalayan? Well, they

This is one of those quotes that might haunt the interviewee. At https://phys.org/news/2020-04-laws-nature-downright-weird-constant.html ... in this study we are told new findings suggest the laws

At www.heritagedaily.com/2020/04/study-traces-spread-of-early-dairy-farming... ... study traces the spread of early dairy farming across western Europe. This is down to the new technique of chemically analysing food

On its way on Wednesday, a big rock passing by - see https://spaceweather.com April 28th 2020 ...

At https://phys.org/news/2020-04-tomanowos-meteorite-survived-mega-floods-h... ... this is about an iron meteorite find in Oregon, the so called Willamette meteor. The local Indian tribe, the Clackamas, called it

At https://phys.org/news/2020-04-fossil-frogs-insights-ancient-antarctica.html ... the discovery of the earliest known modern amphibians in Antarctica suggests, once again, a warm and temperate climate prevailed in the Antartic

At https://phys.org/news/2020-04-atmospheric-tidal-venus-super-rotation.html ... atmospheric tidal waves maintain the super rotation speed of Venus - courtesy of Hokkaido University (Japan). The tidal waves are formed from

At https://phys.org/news/2020-04-alma-reveals-unusual-composition-interstel... ... ALMA, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, has disovered some unusual things about interstellar Comet Borisov, late last year (December 2019). They observed

Planet 9 is somewhat different to Planet X as it is projected, or was invented, in order to explain anomalies in the orbits of objects

At https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2020/04/20/methane-forms-under-space-con... ... methane forms under space conditions simulated in a laboratory in Leiden University (the Netherlands). Methane is the main ingredient of natural gas

At www.scientificamerican.com/article/do-we-live-in-a-lopsided-universe/ ... which is another take on the possibility the unverse is not the same in every direction. Recent findings say clusters of galaxies

ASt www.heritagedaily.com/2020/04/researchers-challenge-accuracy-of-methods-... ... researchers challenge the accuracy of methods that analyse trees of life. The paper is published in Nature (April 2020). Two scientists argue

With a headline like that it must be click bait. The link is at https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/04/probable-roman-shipwrecks-uneart... ... and so it is. It is not a coal

This story has been in archaeological news for some time but it has now gone unbridled - see www.heritagedaily.com/2020/04/melting-ice-reveals-lost-viking-artefacts-... ... in Norway hundreds of rare

Comet Atlas has no sooner disintegrated that another bright comet has been tracked on its way towards the sun - Comet Swan. See https://spaceweather.com 14th

At https://cosmictusk.com/life-and-disease-and-corona-virus-from-space/ ... an interview conducted by Dr Predrag Slijipcevic of Brunel University in Hillingdon in west London. Chandra Wickramasinghe, on the other hand, hails

At www.heritagedaily.com/2020/04/origin-of-the-first-known-interstellar-obj... ... on an article published in Nature Astronomy (April 2020) https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-020-1065-8 ... what was the origin of the interstellar object Oumoumua? Where did

The corona virus episode has exposed an inconvenient fact - see https://notrickszone.com/2020/04/14/corona-exposes-inconvenient-truth-po... ... the inconvenient truth is that green activists have overhyped levels of pollution

Stolen from the Tall Bloke - the headline that is. Nice video - see https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2020/04/13/black-hole-conundrum/ ... a video ofa supermassive black hole spewing a brilliant