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This is an interesting piece of research as it has been suggested the chalk formations have a connection with planktonic blooms - but what might

At https://rclutz.wordpress.com/2017/05/17/the-curious-case-of-dr-miskolczi/ ... Dr Ferenc Mark Miskolczi was an astrophysicist working for NASA. Part of his job was to analyse radiosonde data and his curiosity

Interesting one at https://phys.org/news/2019-06-ridge-radio-emissions-galaxy-clusters.html ... an article in the journal Science by an international team describe how they found a ridge of radion emissions joining

At https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2019/06/07/Earths-mantle-is-magnetic-res... ... which is derived from www.upi.com/Science_News/2019/06/06/Earths-mantle-is-magnetic-researcher... ... most scientists have thought in terms of the Earth's magnetism powered by materials in the core

This promised to be fascinating, a headline claiming a herd of dinosaurs had been discovered in an opal mine in New South Wales. Turns out

Round Up begins with horses - engraved on a stone. At https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2019/06/prehistoric-stone-en... ... archaeologists in SW France have found a slab of sandstone at an

At https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2019/06/what-happened-to-anc... .... Helike was a famous Greek city that sunk into the coastal mud of the Gulf of Corinth in 373BC during a terrible

At https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2019/06/new-genes-out-of-not... ... how do new genes and functional proteins arise and develop? This is an important question to answer as far as evolutionary biology

At https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2019/05/ancient-dna-tells-st... ... ancient dna tells the story of the first herders in East Africa. A collorative study published in the journal Science (by archaeologists,

Go to https://phys.org/news/2019-06-rare-fossils-picture-biodiversity-middle.html ... a research paper published in The Science of Nature (2019) DOI:10.1007/s00114-019-1623-z ... 'Soft Bodied Fossils from the Upper Valongo Formation of

At https://notrickszone.com/2019/06/04/climate-scientists-astounded-no-arct... ... data issued by the Danish Meteorological Institute shows that Arctic sea ice stopped shrinking 13 years ago, defying predictions made by climate

Gary sent in the link to www.techtimes.com/articles/243819/20190527/submerged-forest-linked-to-my... ... a sunken forest composed of hundreds of petrified trees has emerged on a beach in Wales. It

At http://spaceweather.com (June 2nd 2019) we have several days of reports of noctilucent clouds circling around the Arctic and providing photographers with a lot of

Another story about the history and origin of apples - www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-05/mpif-eto052119.php ... for example, last year we had some research that showed cultivated apples were

This one is remarkable - a school of fish, admittedly very small fish, are preserved in a block of limestone. They are  said to go

This story is at www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6963489/ ... where a 50 year old Londoner, one Alan Murphy, is the centrepiece. He is what is known in the

Sent in by William - go to https://eos.org/articles/hiroshima-bomb-created-asteroid-impact-like-glass ... it has been discovered that the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima in WWII left behind glass

At https://phys.org/news/2019/05/mysterious-ancient-burial-mound-years.html ... the burial mound of Le Tumulus de Sables was discovered by chance in 2006 - in the playground of a kindergarten. The

Sent in by Gary - www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7086499/ ... police investigating an illegal trade in historical artefacts have seized a hoard of Viking coins that might rewrite

This story is at https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2019/05/29/the-sun-follows-the-rhythm-of... ... Tall Bloke was especially interested in this new research as he, and colleagues, have been saying something similar for