In the News

At www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news/php ... a few days ago (see also www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/03/190328170639.htm ... and https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/cassini ...). NASAs Cassini mission has found Saturn's rings coat tiny moons -

The K/T boundary vent is back in the news - see www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/03/190329144223.htm ... in the aptly named Hell Creek formation in North Dakota we have

William sent this one in. As we await the pubication of the Tall el-Hammam destruction event we might get some idea of what it might

Robert sent in the link to https://crev.info/2019/03/soft-tissue-in-biggest-ever-cambrian-fossil-bo... ... which provides the Creationsit view of the latest discoveries. As expected they look sceptically at uniformitarian interpretations

At https://phys.org/print472811618.html ... ancient rubbish mounds reveal a 6th century AD episode of climate change affecting a Byzantine town site in what is now Israeli

Keeping to the theme of tunnels, William forwarded a link but see www.atlasobscura.com/places/permafrost-tunnel/ ... a frozen tunnel in central Alaska was dug out by the

At https://www.earthtouchnews.com/discoveries/discoveries/these-giant-tunne... ... strange smooth walled tunnels cutting into rock faces in Brazil and Argentina have long been a puzzle to locals. You can even

At https://phys.org/print472815059.html ... what before Big Bang is the title of this piece. The idea is to test inflation of the universe theory after Avi

Strange in the sense that asteroids are not thought to be active - even if that activity is like a sleeping man periodically letting out

Sent in by William - see www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2019/03/18/the-hundred-years-war-the-fires-of-t... ... is a guest post by Peter Mungo Jupp who runs the Ancient Origins web site. Around AD1348

At https://phys.org/print472465406.html ... researchers at the University of Nottingham have found a higher percentage of natural fibres in freshwater habitats and in the atmosphere (in

A Chinese fossil trove - see https://phys.org/print472464235.html ... a team from two universities in China and one from the US has partially excavated a trove

At https://phys.org/print472235349.html ... a space rock exploded into a ball of fire above the Bering Sea without anybody actually seeing or reporting it. Not many

At https://phys.org/print432185795.html ... work on an extension of the Metro system under Los Angeles has found numerous fossilised remains of Pleistocene animals that once roamed

Phew, Saved by the bell. It seems clones of Dr Strangelove types have been blocked by the US, Saudi Arabia, and Brazil - in the

At https://phys.org/print472115260.html ... Australian National University scientists have found that Earth is made of the same elements as the Sun but has less of the

At https://phys.org/print472149086.html ... data from the New Horizons mission is still filtering back and what has been revealed so far will be discussed at the

At https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2019/03/17/solar-tsunami-can-trigger-the... .... it begins by saying the next sun spot cycle can be expected to begin in 2020 according to The Hindu (see www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/solar-tsunami-can-trigger-the-sunspot-cycle/ar...

At https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/03/16/gwyn-morgan-talk-about-collusion-... ... it sounds like the tactics of the old style communists taking over trade unions but this appears to be a serious account

After spending the last couple of days ploughing through David Reich, 'Who We Are and How We Got Here; ancient DNA and the new science