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Something Odd in the Pacific
3 May 2024 GeologyWilliam sent in the link https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/strange-structures-discovered-in-the-pacific-could-change-our-understanding-of-earth/ ... here we have some unexplained geology in South Africa, on the one hand, and New Zealand, on the
The Moon and a Bear bone
1 May 2024 ArchaeologyAt https://www.iflscience.com/engraved-bone-of-prehistoric-bear-is-the-oldest-example-of-neanderthal-culture-73884/ ... in this we are back to the last Interglacial Period with a date between 115,000 and 130,000 years ago. It involves a
Blessed Ball Courts
28 April 2024 ArchaeologyAt https://phys.org/news/2024-04-art-discoveries-eastern-sudan-tale.html ... in the desert of eastern Sudan, in what is called the Atbai Desert, there are plentiful rock art sites - along what
Earthquakes or Not
28 April 2024 Archaeology, GeologyRobert sent in some interesting links. At https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/5-catastrophic-megathrust-earthquakes-led-to-the-demise-of-the-pre-aztec-city-of-teotihuacan-new-study-suggests .... the gist of the paper is that evidence of earthquakes found at Teotihuacan caused the demise
Gmma Rays and Supernovae
22 April 2024 Astronomy, cosmologyAt https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/04/240416125319.htm ... a nearby supernova in 2023 failed to produce gamma rays. NASAs Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope did not detect any gamma rays -
Stellar Flares
22 April 2024 Astronomy, cosmologyAt https://phys.org/news/2024-04-hydrogen-recombination-plausible-explanation-high.html ... here we have a plausible explanation put forward to explain the intensity of stellar flares. Cosmologists making sense of solar flares as
Lizard Fish
20 April 2024 Biology, PalaeontologyAt https://www.livescience.com/animals/extinct-species/giant-82-foot-lizard-fish-discovered-on-uk-beach-could-be-largest-marine-reptile-ever-found ... it was in fact a very large ichthyosaur that lived in the seas of late Triassic - going back 200 million years
Giant Kangaroos
20 April 2024 Biology, PalaeontologyAt https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/04/240415110602.htm ... palaeontologists have excavated 3 new species of extinct kangaroos that lived between 5 million years and 40,000 years ago. Note the end
Reviewing the Base Model of the Universe
18 April 2024 Astronomy, cosmologyYou can read about this at https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2024/04/15/worlds-top-cosmologists-convene-to-question-conventional-view-of-the-universe/ .... which comes courtesy of the Guardian newspaper. It concerns an upcoming meeting of the Royal Society which
Electric Signals Bees and Flowers
18 April 2024 Biology, Electric Universe, ElectromagnetismAt https://www.sciencenews.org/article/flower-antennas-bees-electrical-signals/ ... flowers may act as antennae for bees electrical signals. Plants might use the signals to communicate when to trigger nectar production. The
Investigating the LB/Iron transition
18 April 2024 Archaeology, CatastrophismSpecifically, their focus is on western Anatolia and the eastern Aegean region. You can view a podcast interview at https://open.spotify.com/3i5EhhvUkQTiuPGwWrTtyS .... but see also https://www.migmag-erc.eu/
Pottery and Australians
17 April 2024 Anthropology, Archaeology, GeologyAt https://phys.org/news/2024-04-discovery-pottery-rewrites-aboriginal-history.html ... the discovery of pottery on Jiigurru/Lizard Island off the Queensland coast challenges the idea Aborigines were unaware of pottery manufacture prior to
White Sands
17 April 2024 Anthropology, Archaeology, GeologyAt https://www.science.org/content/article/modern-blackfoot-people-descend-ancient-ice-age-lineage/ ... The Blackfeet people are descended from Ice Age people. They live in a broat swathe of North America - and seem to
Lake Baikal Geological Anomaly
7 April 2024 GeologyAt https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/geology/underwater-robot-in-siberias-lake-baikal-reveals-hidden-mud-volcanoes-and-an-active-fault .... a video camera onboard an underwater robot found cracks associated with mud volcanism close to an active fault zone under the surface
Hammam
7 April 2024 Archaeology, CatastrophismTher Tall el-Hammam excavation came to an end in the 2023 season. However, a lot of work is still going on back in the US,
On the Carrington Event
7 April 2024 Astronomy, ElectromagnetismWilliam sent in a couple of links to the re-assessment of the 1859 Carrington Event. See for example https://www.earth.com/news/carrington-event-biggest-solar-storm-history-radiocarbon-earth-tree-rings .... scientists have found a new
Two Billion craters on Mars
29 March 2024 Astronomy, Catastrophism, GeologyAt https://www.livescience.com/space/mars/single-enormous-object-left-2-billion-craters-on-mars-scientists-discover/ ... an object slammed into Mars 2.3 million years ago and created two billion small craters around the main impact site. The main
Climate Science in Denial
29 March 2024 Climate change, GeologyJavier, writing on Judith Curry's blog, which has a lot of climate scientist interest as she is one of them, is saying alarmist models are
Boats and Pinch Points
25 March 2024 ArchaeologyAt https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/03/240320160445.htm ... boats were used by Neolithic people to colonise the Mediterranean. By necessity, boats must have been used to explore the southern shores
Spinning Backwards
25 March 2024 Astronomy, cosmologyAt https://spaceweather.com ... archive, March 20th 2024 - the polar vortex is spinning backwards - in the stratosphere above the Arctic. The vortex changed direction