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A paper in Science Advances - see https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aav37693 ... uses data from a Chinese satellite system, the 'Dark Matter Particle Explorer', in order to masure

Why can't we see Planet Nine. Why is it hiding? The latest idea is that it is invisible. A black hole lurking in the outer

Below is a beautiful image of a so called coronal loop system on the Sun as seen by the ultra violet cameras on the Solar

Gary sent in this link to https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7520961/ ... archaeologists claim that a range of mysterious man made stones submerged beneath the surface of Lake Constance,

Gary sent in this interesting link - from a couple of years ago. At www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2017/01/21/welcome-rainbow-mountains-per... (and see also https://theculturetrip.com/south-america/peru/articles/the-discovery-of-... ...). Ausangate Mountain in the Peruvian

At https://phys.org/news/2019-09-nasa-visualization-black-hole-warped.html ... in the image below, a turbulent disc of gas is churning around a black hole which appears to have a double hump.

William also sent in the link to a Viking age mortuary house found in central Norway . See for example https://norwegianscitechnews.com/2019/09/viking-age-mortuary-house-found... ... the mortuary house

At www.icr.org/article/11545/ ... Robert forwarded this interesting post - another mass kill event with an out of place dinosaur. Each time a fossilised creature with

William sent in the link https://eos.org/articles/glass-pearls-in-clam-shells-point-to-ancient-me... ... a story I do believe I noted a few weeks back - but never mind. It is a

Back in the day, the Jurassic perioid no less, central Europe was covered by a shallow sea - the so called Tethys Sea. A study

At https://phys.org/news/2019-09-common-childhood-illness-neanderthals.html ... it begins by saying, 'It is one of the great unsolved mysteries of anthropology. What killed off the Neanderthals ....' etc. Was

A new study alters our understanding of how comets arrive form the outer limits of the solar  system and are funnelled into the inner solar 

At https://phys.org/news/2019-09-technological-edomite-kingdom-10th-century... ... a paper on the emergence of the kingdom of Edom in the Iron Age has been published in the open access journal

This story takes us back to the ESA Rosetta Mission to Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko in 2014. Is it that long ago. Researchers are still sifting through

Weather Eye (Paul Simons) in The Times has been writing about purple haze glowing in the twilight sky just after sunset. Not auroral though in

At https://notrickszone.com/2019/09/14/scientists-confession-climate-models... ... Japanese MIT climate scientist has written a book. Dr Mototaka Nakamura received his doctorate at MIT and worked at NASA. The title

At https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2019/09/new-flying-reptile-s... ... a new species of pterosaur is among the largest ever flying animals according to a new study from Queen Mary University in

In the evolutionary model of human development the Lower Palaeolithic humans (such as Homo erectus), responsible for the Acheulian stone tool assemblage, mostly hand axes

A towering balloon like structure has been discovered near the centre of the Milky Way - a pair of radio emitting bubbles that are hundreds

At https://phys.org/news/2019-09-year-old-swamp-brimming-bones-reveals.html ... a 12,000 year old swamp (taking us back roughly to the Younger Dryas period) brimming with bones reveals the ecosystem in which