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At https://spaceweather.com (January 29th 2020) we have dunes in the sky, a form of aurora rippling through the northern skies. A paper published in the

The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD79 turned the brains of one of its victims into glass, we are told - see https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2020/01/mount-vesuvius-blast... ... and

At https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2020/01/clays-in-antarctica-... ... change in the Antarctic from 35 million years ago is said to chronicle past climate change. That is the necessary nod of

At https://phys.org/news/2020-01-riddle-heavenly.html ... Cosmic lightning is happening all around us we are told. Somewhere in the sky there is a pulse that flashes and extinguishes

At https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2020/01/3000-year-old-teeth-... ... 3000 year old teeth from skeletons buried in Vanuatu were analysed and microscopic traces of banana and other plants were found in

At https://edition.cnn.com/2020/01/21/asia/budj-bim-australia-bushfire-intl... ... the recent bushfires in Victoria (2020) have revealed some interesting archaeology, a series of water channels created by Aborigines in order to

At https://phys.org/news/2020-01-microbial-mayhem-chicxulub-crater.html ... it was microbial mayhem in the Chicxulub crater - according to a paper published in the journal Geology (https://doi.org/10.1130/G46799.1 ) and in

At https://phys.org/news/2020-01-auks-pacific.html ... a 700,000 year old fossil bone indicates a close relative of the little auk, now confined to the North Atlantic, once thrived

At https://phys.org/news/2020-01-ancient-dairy-mystery-modern-food.html ... it begins by telling us the armies of Genghis Khan fed on dried curd as they waged war and destruction on their

William sent in the link www.yahoo.com/news/oldest-impact-crater-on-earth-found-and-it-could-thro... ... which concerns the discovery of a big, if not gi-normous crater, which it is calculated, occurred roughly at

At www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2364281/ ... we learn about a strange configuration of pits spotted by aerial archaeology at Crothes Castle in Scotland. It is said to be

At https://phys.org/news/2020-01-scientists-evolving-energy-solar-flare.html ... (and see https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aax6874) ... at the back end of 2017 a massive new region of magnetic activity produced a series of potent

At https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2020/01/in-death-of-dinosaur... ... in death of the dinosaurs it was all about the asteroid - not the volcanoes. At last, some realism.  Yale assistant professor

At https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2020/01/living-fossil-may-up... ... a living fossil may upend a basic tent of evolutionary theory. Courtesy of a UC of San Franscisco research team. Natural selection, 

At https://notrickszone.com/2020/0/16/19-papers-published-in-2019-affirm-se... ... I could have posted this under geology but the link is to a climate sceptic site in Germany. The claim is that

Robert sent in this link too - www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7890053/ ... which provides images from the recent eruption in the Phillippines. Robert says the gruesome images hint

at https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/01/16/astronomers-reveal-interstellar-t... .. which comes with lots of very interesting comments. Astronomers reveal an interstellar thread of one of life's building blocks - phosphorus. It

At https://phys.org/news/2020-01-transparency-crystals-ultrahigh-piezoelect... ... ultra high piezo electricity in crystals causes them to become transparent - is this another feature of electricity in Earth and beyond

Robert sent in the link www.zerohedge.com/health/why-are-volcanoes-all-over-globe-suddenly-shoot... ...  why are volcanoes all over the world suddenly shooting giant clouds of ash miles into the air. Solar

Christopher Columbus, and other early settlers in the Caribbean, spoke about the indigenous islanders and described the Caribs as a fierce tribe that abducted women