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At https://phys.org/print422864597.html ... a comet that became an asteroid. Comet Blanpain was first seen and recorded in 1819 - but subsequently disappeared. In 2003 astronomers

At https://phys.org/print422704328.html ... scientists have detected x-rays from what appears to be a type 1a supernova. Exploding stars are an interesting phenomenon and we are

William sent this one in. It is also in various other places such as https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2017/08/24/mathematical-mystery-of-ancie... ... and https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/08/25/3700-year-old-babylonian-tablet-r... ... where we learn a clay tablet

At https://phys.org/print422623388.html ... wild sheep lived and thrived in the Black Desert region of eastern Jordan in the Late Pleistocene. To be exact, during the

At https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2017/08/22/the-moving-martian-bow-shock/ ... solar EUV (ultra violet radiation) is an important feature of the solar wind. As energetic particles of the solar wind cross space

At https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2017/08/23/variable-sunshine-researchers... ... this was also taken from PhysOrg - why does the Sun vary in brightness? The result of research - it fluctuates because

At https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2017/08/22/most-of-the-recent-warming-co... ... Jennifer Marohasy and co-author John Abbot, a computer scientist, have written a number of articles on global warming that are in the

At https://phys.org/print422274566.html ... Rice University geophysicists have developed a method that uses the average motion of hot spots to determine how fast plates are moving.

Gary sent in this link, www.godkingscenario.com/blog/extraterrestrial-banded-iron-formations/ ... banded iron consists of alternating layers of silica and iron rich bands ...   .... layers of iron

At https://phys.org/print421653227.html ... researchers at the University of Southampton have been looking at the thickness of Earth's continents (results published in the journal Science) by

Sorry about the amount of climate change posts in the last week but here we go again. At https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/08/11/dr-judith-curry-explains-the-real... ... which features Dr Judith Curry

At https://phys.org/print421584715.html ... a house sized asteroid will whizz past the Earth on October 12th, we are told, well within the orbit of the Moon

At https://phys.org/print421573007.html ... human teeth from a cave on Sumatra has been analysed and it seems they date back over 60,000 years ago. This date

At https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/08/11/when-the-model-models-itself/ ... is an interesting read. A climate scientist on falsifiability (or the lack of it in climate science) said, climate models are carefully

I've already done a post with the title of Clive James, author and journalist and former TV personality. Hence, the above title - although this

The Chinese have jumped big time into the global warming controversy - see for example https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2017/08/09/warm-periods-in-the-20th-cent... ... or at https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/08/09/warm-periods-in-the-20th-century-... .. with both derived from

At https://phys.org/print421408278.html ... there are a lot more black holes in the Milky Way than previously thought according to a University of California Irvine study.

The quality of climate change research appears to be ever more hysterical. We have had one missive suggesting we should not have dogs and cats

Peter M James has a new article at www.ncgt.org June issue. He has been a long time critic of Plate Tectonics and notes that over

At http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/summer-2017/article/ancient-dna-rev... ... It seems that DNA confirms that the people of Crete and the Greek mainland, including the Mycenaeans, are all closely related in