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At https://www.livescience.com/animals/extinct-species/colossals-de-extincted-dire-wolf-isnt-a-dire-wolf-and-it-has-not-been-de-extincted-experts-say ... was it - or was it not a dire wolf. On a more prosaic note, at https://phys.org/news/2025-04-reveals-million-years-green-arabia.html ... Arabia was green and

At https://phys.org/news/2025-04-klauea-volcano-ash-prompted-largest.html ... The Kilauea volcano on Hawaii that erupted in 2018 created a massive bloom in North Pacific phytoplankton. The mechanism of such blooms

This story is at https://www.livescience.com/space/the-sun/watch-eerie-ufos-and-a-solar-cyclone-take-shape-in-stunning-new-esa-video-of-the-sun ... ESAs Solar Orbiter has taken images of a towering cyclone of plasma exhibiting behaviour never seen before on the

Ancient genomes from the period when the Sahara was green and lush with rivers and streams and lots of fauna and flora, in the first

At https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/04/250401233454.htm ... mammals were already living in numbers prior to the event which killed the dinosaurs. The latter, of course, survive into the modern

Not sure if the electric involvement is too important as it is not the thrust of the study. A sort of afterthought. At https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/03/250304164422.htm ... 

Trevor Palmer has put an SIS e-Book on the Academia web site. See https://academia.edu/128356295/Greek_Historians_and_their_Role_in_the_Development_of_Modern_Ideas_on_Old_World_Chronologies ...

At https://phys.org/news/2025-03-team-dark-oxygen-seafloor.html ... this caught my eye in the opening paragraph. Children always ask 'why?' as they experience things, or come across something new to

The Israeli archaeologist and author, I. Finkelstein, has an article published in the Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament [Jan 28th, 2025].  See https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/ancient-egyptian-soldiers-and-greek-mercenaries-were-at-armageddon-when-biblical-king-was-killed-study-suggests ...

Robert sent in the link https://phys.org/news/2025-03-unveiling-mysterious-red-sprite-lightning.html ... by analysing the parent lightning discharges we discovered that the sprites were triggered by high peak current positive

William also sent in a link from National Geographic magazine. The same story is at https://www.livescience.com/space/planets/128-new-moons-discovered-orbiting-saturn-nearly-doubling-the-ringed-planets-total ... Saturn already had 146 moons. Another 128 means

William sent  in a link to https://www.yahoo.com/news/moses-parting-red-sea-may-060000050.html ... which also appeared on the MSN web site. A scientist is arguing, or speculating, that a natural

At https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/geology/52-foot-high-megaripples-from-asteroid-that-killed-dinosaurs-mapped-deep-beneath-louisiana-in-3d ... It seems the largest known ripples caused by a massive tsunami wave have been discovered deep beneath Louisianna. They show, conclusively, that

In the Journal of Cosmology 2010 volume 7, pages 1750-1770, we have a paper by R Joseph PhD and Chandra Wickramasinghe PhD, 'Comets and Contagion:

William sent in the link https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/mount-ararat-and-noah-s-ark-research-team-discovers-marine-fossils-suggesting-ancient-flood/ar-AA1Ayq5A ... experts, or researchers, from Istanbul Technical University and Andrews University in the US, among others, have been visiting

Ancient DNA reveals some of the origins of the Huns who sacked Rome and threatened western Europe in the 4th century AD. A new study

At https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/02/250218113650.htm ... the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way galaxy flickers and flares - constantly bubbling with light. This discovery

Robert sent in two link. At https://phys.org/news/2025-02-discovery-huge-amounts-helium-earth.html .... but see also the arXiv server at https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2405.11810 ... where researchers from Japan and Taiwan have discovered

Robert sent in a link to two different videos. I have no view on the content although it is probably true to say that science,

This was written by RNIyengar a professor of civil engineering in Bangalore. It seems to describe not just an additional Sun that was visible coming