In the News

At https://www.space.com/james-webb-space-telescope-universe-first-stars-black-hole-population-3 ... here we are back to the period shortly after Big Bang. At https://www.livescience.com/space/cosmology/james-webb-telescope-detects-oldest-dead-galaxy-in-the-known-universe-and-its-death-could-challenge-cosmology ... a dead galaxy. Expired. Lived  its life and

We have Homo erectus building wooden structures in Zambia, half a million years ago [see https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-66846772 ] and now we have stone tools in Europoe

Gary sent in this link ... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-68450147.amp ... Star dunes. Scientists claim to have solved the mystery behind earth's largest sand dunes. The subject of

At https://spaceweather.com ... see archive March 5th 2024. Here we are back to Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks. It is coming to life once again. The page has

At https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00647-y ... Yang Li has been the co-author of a lot of geological papers. He has another one out at Nature. The preamble is

At https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/antarctica/zoom-through-a-spectacular-chain-of-ancient-underwater-volcanoes-on-antarctic-ocean-floor ...  research in the Southern Ocean has mapped a string of sea mounts  that may have shaped the Antarctic Circumpolar Current - which

Astronomers have discovered water vapour exists in the disc around a young star - at the point planets MAY be forming. Water MAY play a

At https://www.livescience.com/animals/mind-boggling-deep-sea-expedition-uncovers-100-new-species-and-a-gigantic-underwater-mountain ... down in the deep sea off the coast of Chile, over a hundred previously unknown marine creatures have been found, along with

At https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/02/240207120432.htm ... a new study highlights a cultural evolution that took place approximately 50 to 40,000 years ago - coinciding with a dispersal of

At https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00489-8 ... mapping the universe.  The eROSITA telescope has been used to reconctruct 9 billion years of cosmic evolution - by tracing the X-ray

William sent in the link to an MSN science story - NASAs DART spacecraft impact may have caused the Dimorphos asteroid to remarkably reform. Instead

At https://www.livescience.com/space/cosmology/james-webb-telescope-finds-ancient-galaxy-larger-than-our-milky-way-and-its-threatening-to-upend-cosmology ... consensus is that the first galaxies formed around giant haloes of dark matter. However, this is probably a quite recent consensus as

Gary sent in the link https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13086599/ ... a Roman camp unearthed near Armageddon, otherwise known as Megiddo, has excited the media it would seem. It

At https://www.space.com/nasa-voyager-spacecraft-mission-deep-space ...  seems an odd headline. NASAs Voyager One spacecraft isn't doing so well, we are told. For the last couple of months engineers

At https://www.sciencenews.org/article/south-american-patagonia-cave-paintings-surprisingly-old ... Patagonian cave paintings may have helped transmit cultural information from around 8200 years ago. Patagonia straddles down the eastern side of South

At https://bigthink.com/life/fossil.eukaryote-multicellular-life/ ... Chinese scientists Maoyan Zhu, has reported the discovery of a 1.63 billion years old fossil that will re-write the evolutionary history of

At https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/bizarre-magnetic-anomaly-discovered-deep-below-new-zealands-lake-rotorua ... Lake Rotorua sits in the crater of a dormant volcano and has been mapped, or 68% of it, in detail. This has

It is always interesting to know how the minds of scientists work and what inhibitive ideas are not allowed. Catastrophism is obviously one of them

At https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/11000-year-old-submerged-stone-wall-discovered-off-germany-was-once-used-to-trap-reindeer ... It is probably guesswork that it was used to trap reindeer but what other animal  could it have been - red deer

Sent in by William - a link to an MSN story on the Sun's magnetic flip halfway through our current solar cycle. The last one