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At https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2019/10/ancient-genomes-prov... ... a team has hanalysed plague victims from the UK, France, Germany, Russia, and Switzerland in order to gain more info on the

Bob is now up on You Tibe - go to https://youtu.be/YKgPWSSuhjg?t=180 ... but no mention of SIS.

A 'Steve Storm' struck Scandinavia on 28th September rather than the expected auroral outbreak - see https://spaceweather.com (October 2nd 2019) ...    ... a mauve

This is one of the big stories this week - on the origin of life (are scientists are on the verge of showing us how

William sent in this link to https://phys.org/news/2019-10-hypothesis-asteroid-contributed-mass-extin... ... another discovery on the Younger Dryas impact theory. This time at Wunderdratar in the Limpopo province of

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