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Comet Atlas has fragmented ... now evidently true (https://spaceweather.com April 14th ) ....    ... around the world amateur astronomers are witnessing the falling apart.

William sent in this link - https://eos.org/articles/armageddon-at-10000-bce ... Armageddon is in the Revelation of John, the last book of the Bible. It is a play

At www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-8016539/ ... a Canaanite temple destroyed at the end of the Late Bronze age has been unearthed at Lachish. The media pieces goes on

At https://popular-archaeology.com/article/movement-of-early-humans-into-th... ... the movement of humans into the Indian subcontinent looks at the routes they might have taken - by coastal hugging or coming

Sent in by Robert. AtlanticAt https://phys.org/news/2020-04-ancient-teeth-peru-hint-now.html ... ancient teeth from fossilised monkey discovered deep in Amazonia - as far west as Peru. It is said

Doubting Thomases are thinking the unthinkable. At https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/04/10/doubts-about-basic-assumption-for... ... a new study by the universities of Bonn and Harvard question fundamental principles of cosmology. Since

At https://phys.org/news/2020-04-images-reveal-fine-threads-million-degree.... ... researchers at the University of central Lancashire unveil the highest ever resolution images of the Sun - and provide a clue on

At https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2020/04/revolutionary-new-... ... a revolutionary new method for dating pottery has been developed at the University of Bristol. Of course, pottery has always been a

Robert sent in this link to https://phys.org/news/2020-04-saturn-atmosphere-hot.html .... What makes Saturn's atmosphere hot? The same question can also be aimed at Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune.

At https://spaceweather.com (April 7th 2020) we learn that Comet Atlas may be breaking up - before it gets anywhere near the Sun. New data from

It sems HH Lamb was probably correct as far as how warm it was in the 1930s. He lived through the 1930s and was actively

At https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2020/04/our-direct-human-anc... ... one suspects this is more about making a name than anything concrete - but I may doing a disservice to the scientists

Robert sent in this link - https://crev.info/2020/04/surprising-fossils-dinosaurs/ ... three related stories that have already been posted on the News. Dinosaur footprints in a cave is

At https://spaceweather.com (2nd April 2020) Comet Atlas again ...    ... it has now sprouted a tail. It is still too dim to see with

At www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2148-5 ... the mid Cretaceous was one of the warmest periods in the history of the earth - which is why it pops up

At https://astrobites.org/2020/04/04/nitrogen-67P/ a case of missing nitrogen on Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko (67P) as relayed back by the Rosetta Mission. Comets are thought to produce information on

At https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/03/27/coral-tells-own-tale-about-el-nio... ... ancient corals in the Pacific have been found to be a record of past water temperature - and the comings and goings

Japanese sky watchers, back in the year 620AD, recorded a streak of red light in the night sky and compared it with the colourful tail

At www.dw.com/en/german-archaeologists-unearth-massive-mammoth-tusk/a-52947985 ... archaeologists in Bavaria, excavating a medieval settlement, found a bonus - they stumbled upon on older find. Much older. An ice age

Sent in by Robert a few days ago. Data from NASAs Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus 30 years ago has been reconsidered and they have