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Robert sent in the links https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6479655/Nasas-Voyager-2-... ... and https://astronomynow.com/2018/12/10/voyager-2-leaves-the-suns-influence-... ... and https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-s-voyager-2-probe-enters-interst... .... Voyager 2 is now officially outside the Earth's magnetic bubble and within

At http://sciencenordic.com/greenland-icebergs-may-have-triggered-younger-d... ... courtesy of https://cosmictusk.com/younger_dryas_ice_bergs_greenland_hiawatha_comet/ ... Greenland ice bergs may have triggered the Younger Dryas event is the title of what is a 2013

At Tall Bloke's talk shop 'Old Brew' (which sounds like a winter warmer such as Sadler's Peaky Blinder) has a post on magnetic reconnection -

At https://phys.org/print463398015.html ... the oldest trace of bubonic plague has been found in a passage grave in Scandinavia - going back 5000 years. The discovery

The end of Permian mass extinction event was caused by global warming - see https://phys.org/print463305400.html ... fossils in ancient seafloor rocks dispaly a thriving and

Nice bit of writing at https://astrobites.org/2015/02/19/cool-stars-have-magnetic-fields-too/ ... 'consider, for example, the solar dynamo (dynamo is a fancy term for the thing that creates a magnetic

At https://phys.org/print463211497.html ... concerns the discovery of the soft parts of an ichthyosaur from the Jurassic period. Also the subject of a post at New

At https://phys.org/print463198725.html ... a new study unifies dark matter and dark energy into a single phenomenon, a fluid which they say possesses negative mass. If

It seems the meteor explosion over the Dead Sea has caught up with mainstream - see https://phys.org/print463220038.html ... which begins by telling us the South

At http://notrickszone.com/2018/12/03/new-research-methane-emissions-from-l... ... methane emissions from livestock have no detectable effect on the climate - according to a study by Albrecht Glatzle, author of over

Interesting post with links at https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2018/12/04/space-weather-may-predict-fut... ... space weather may be used to predict future climate change. Historical space weather may help climate scientists predict

At https://phys.org/print463140043.html ... a study led by Texas University has shown supersoft X-ray emissions in space can originate from accretion as well as nuclear fusion

At https://phys.org/print463137812.html ... volcanoes are not fed by molten magma is the claim but by reservoirs of volcanic mush - areas of mostly solid crystals

Hibben in for rehabilitation. A doubtful ending to a long saga but it seems all the internet anti-Hibben verbals may have got it wrong after

America's National Centre for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) has posted a video illustrating what might happen if an asteroid crashed into one of the earth's oceans.

One of the most baffling puzzles of astrophysics are radio bursts. They are extremely bright flashes of light with radio wavelengths - but last just

At https://phys.org/print462787441.html ... human occupation of the Tibetan plateau is now thought to go back to between 40 and 30 thousand years ago. The high

At https://phys.org/print462785907.html ... a supernova discovered by several astronomers in different parts of the world has provided an unprecedented look at the first moments of

How were the heavy elements formed in the wake of Big Bang - see https://phys.org/print462530198.html ... research from the University of Western Australia suggests condtions

This is an interesting link to a new study that will not be received with universal enthusiasm by mainstream but it has been published in