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At www.spaceweather.com (August 12th 2017) we learn another geomagnetic storm is predicted. This one is thought to be moderate in effect as it will be

William sent in this link - www.newsweek.com/zealandia-lost-continent-drilling-expedition-640248 ...    ... where we learn that scientists are about to drill into the lost continent of Zealandia.

Gary sent in the link to https://www.sciencealert.com/siberia-s-huge-doorway-to-the-underworld-is... carcasses ... Siberian permafrost has been cracking open again, it is said, and one of the craters is

The Sunday Times reports the go ahead for small nuclear reactors - see https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2017/09/10/go-ahead-for-mini-reactors-as... ... this week we had the Greens shouting about the price

William sent in a link to www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2017/09/11/solar-eruption/ ... the TPOD by Stephen Smith discusses solar eruptions and how they may impact with weather events on

William sent in this link to https://phys.org/print423907645.html ... where researches from the University of Idaho and Wellesley College say they have found evidence two pairs

At https://phys.org/print423838388.html ...  a clever cockatoo. It was able to bend a pipe cleaner in order to retrieve a small out of reach basket with

It has been something of an anomaly that some Neanderthal remains have been dated less than 30,000 years ago - as far as a catastrophist

At https://phys.org/print423925975.html ... it seems the recent Near Earth Object that sailed within 4.4 million miles of the Earth in late August had two moons

Geoffrey Parker, in 'Global Crisis:Wars, Climate Change and Catastrophism in the 17th Century' on page 480, turns his attention to Australia - and the Aborigines

Lots of media buffs are getting really excited about Irma and the prospect of a catastrophic brush with Florida. It's down to CAGW - the

Quite apart  from modern political symbolism rainbows have in the past also been appropriated for dubious reasons. For example, they once had a deep religious

Neanderthals, it would seem, invented the first adhesive (known to archaeology) - see www.seeker.com/culture/archaeology/the-first-adhesive-was-invented-by-ne... ... Neanderthals, it seems, were nothing like their cave men image.

At https://phys.org/print423401228.html ... William sent in this one. A Roman city off the NE coast of Tunisia with streets, monuments, and tanks used to produce

A well preserved nodosaur with skin scales, shoulder spikes, and skin colour has been written up at www.cell.com/current-biology/pdf/S0960-9822(17)30808-4.pdf (or www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(17)30808-4 )... and www.cell.com/cms/attachment/210607284/2081442662/mmc1.pdf The links

Sandia National Laboratory has conducted a hands on experiment that appears to contradict another assumption - and this concerns the X-ray spectra from the vicinity

At http://spaceweather.com (August 31st, 2017) we have this image ...    .... which appears to be a new kind of sprite caught on camera. Until

The big story of the week is that Saturn's rings may be a relatively recent fixture. Gary sent in the link to www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4836376/Saturn-s-rings-just-100-... ... It

At https://phys.org/print423323399.html ... analysis of skeletons from a cave in the Yucatan peninsular of Mexico has proven settlement of humans in the Americas goes back

Seeds and pollen collected by archaeologists in Ohio are turning out to be quite important. Maize was domesticated in Mexico and did not become an