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At https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/medieval-king-arthur-site-is-4-000-years older-than-we-thought ...  medieval is used rather loosely as it is immediate post-Roman period where King Arthur is usually located. This is 4000 years

Staying within a space theme we have astrophysicist Sophie Koudmani taking a fress look at black holes - but not straying too far from consensus

Both Robert and Gary sent in separate links to this story - at https://www.earth.com/news/earth-may-have-captured-the-moon-from-space/ ... I may already have posted  this story but no harm

At https://www.livescience.com/space/asteroids/god-of-chaos-asteroid-may-be-transformed-by-tremors-and-landslides-during-2029-flyby-of-earth-study-finds ...  the asteroid Apophis flyby in 2029 might not be so tranquil as astronomers have been telling us. Its close passage to Earth

There is a new article out on the order of Apis bulls published in the German journal Zeitschrift fur Agyptische Sprache by Robert Porter. It

At https://www.space.com/pluto-problem-time-to-rethink-definition-of-a-planet .... back in 2006, Pluto was downgraded. It was not a planet anymore as far as astronomers were concerned. One reason was the

At https://phys.org/news/2024-10-south-polynesian-seafarers.html ... a couple of weeks ago we had a post about Malays colonising Madagascar. This week we have Polynesians sailing way south of

At https://phys.org/news/2024-11-black-hole-kerr-solution-assumptions.html ... another one to get the brain working overtime. We learn that the properties of black holes are now being challenged by a

Robert sent in this cracker. At https://www.earth.com/news/scientists-are-now-searching-for-dark-matter-inside-old-earth-rocks-minerals-crystals/ ... failing to find dark matter in space, yet alone its pal, dark energy, scientists are now searching

Robert sent in a couple of links. At https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/lasers-reveal-maya-city-including-thousands-of-structures-hidden-in-mexico ... a US archaeologist, using LiDAR maps of forestry scientists, discovered what looks like a mega-city

Mainstream have had a field day making out Ptolemy's historical reconstruction was flawed - just as they think ancient Greeks were wrong about eclipse dates

At https://phys.org/news/2024-10-gamma-rays-milky-core.html ... an international research team including people from the Los Alamos National Laboratory, observed hig energy gamma rays at more than 100 teraelectron

William sent in the link https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/new-research-shows-most-space-rocks-crashing-into-earth-come-from-a-single-source/ar-AA1sy4SM ... but see also https://www.space.com/earth-meteorites-asteroid-families?lrh=176 ... some meteorites come from the moon or Mars but the majority, they say,

At https://www.livescience.com/magnetic-flip-42000-years-ago.html ... a reversal of the Earth's magnetic field thousands of years ago plunged our planet into an environmental crisis. The magnetic north and

At https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/volcanos/mysterious-blobs-in-earths-mantle-are-not-what-we-thought-study-claims .... not everyone was too pleased with the idea of blobs of unknown material residing in Earth's Mantle, in order to explain problems

Just as our Sun and the solar system are surrounded by a magnetic sheaf wrapped around it, orders of magnitude larger than the Earth's magnetosphere,

At https://phys.org/news/2024-10-limestone-iron-reveal-puzzling-extreme.html .... we are told karst formations cover one sixth of the Earth - but not necessarily at the surface. . Karst is a

William sent in the link to https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/did-earth-once-have-a-ring-like-saturn-geologists-find-evidence-for-a-halo-of-orbiting-space-rocks-466-million-years-ago-180985098/ .... and William adds, Donald Patten said something similar, dating a ring around the earth a few thousand

Robert sent in the following links - an update on the Thunderstorms post and gamma rays a few days ago. At https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/10/241002123025.htm ... most tropical

At https://www.livescience.com/space/astronomy/james-webb-telescope-watches-ancient-supernova-replay-3-times-and-confirms-something-is-seriously-wrong-in-our-understanding-of-the-universe   ... the James Webb Space Telescope zoomed in on a distant supernova. They spotted distinct points of light that come from a