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At https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/11/231126224848.htm ... the Fens of eastern England were once heavily wooded - according to research at Cambridge University. Surprisingly, the woods were dominated by

At https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/weather/big-blob-of-hot-water-in-pacific-may-be-making-el-nino-act-weirdly ... it seems a big blob of warm water in the Pacific Ocean is affecting the much hyped upcoming El Nino. Have these

Robert sent in some interesting links for anyone interested in the views of Eric Lerrner. He isn't very keen on Big Bang, for example. Lerner

It seems what is true of the Old World is also true of the New World. Catastrophic events caused major human migrations. At https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/indigenous-mexicans-migrated-to-california-5200-years-ago-likely-bringing-their-languages-with-them-ancient-dna-reveals ...

At https://www.livescience.com/space/cosmology/earth-slammed-by-ultra-powerful-goddess-particle-cosmic-ray-and-we-have-no-idea-where-it-came-from .... researchers detected an 'ultra high energy' cosmic ray recently - the most powerful one since the 'Oh My God' cosmic ray of

William sent in the link https://www.yahoo.com/news/did-saturns-rings-form-icy-181500953.html ... but see also https://phys.org/news/2023-05-saturn-magnificent.html ... a new study suggests the rings of Saturn were formed between 400 and

At https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/11/231120170922.htm ... It seems the Hunga Tonga Ha'apai submarine volcano played a role in the loss of ozone over the Antarctic. It changed the

At https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/11/231121224642.htm ... now we have Neanderthal artists - making geometric shapes on cave walls. The cave in question is at La Roche-Cotard in France,

A tentative piece of evidence that might suggest the geoid of the earth was different during the last Ice Age - particularly during the Late

Gary sent in the link https://www.sciencealert.com/strange-yellow-glass-in-african-desert-traced-back-to-extraterrestrial-impact ... meteor impacts are becoming as common as kippers on a breakfast plate. In the desert zone that straddles

At https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/11/231121175511.htm ... the James Webb Space Telescope is at it again - after peering at the heart of the Milky Way. Nothing to do

At https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/11/231121175239.htm ... University of Otago - research published in Nature Communications at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-42637-0 ... we are told that over the last 4 year period

Using red shift to date a chain of 20 galaxies resulted in an early universe timing - between 11 and 12 billion years ago. Red

At https://spaceweather.com ... archive November 19th, 2023. A big new sun spot group is emerging on the rotating face of the Sun. It is crackling

Gary sent in the link to https://phys.org/news/2023-11-unveiling-mercury-geological-mysteries-salt.html ... It was the salt that captured his attention. Glaciers of salt. How did it get there. This

At https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03569-3 ... we have the headline, 'mysterious tasmanian devil space explosion' - baffles astronomers. The menagerie link is later expanded to 'the Cow' and

This is a cracker as they say. At https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/volcanos/supervolcano-megabeds-discovered-at-bottom-of-sea-point-to-catastrophic-events-in-europe-every-10000-to-15000-years ... notice the word 'catastrophes' in the headline - in fact, it is the crunch line.

In one of those astounding moments of hubris we have at https://www.livescience.com/physics-mathematics/einstein-must-be-wrong-how-general-relativity-fails-to-explain-the-universe ... that might lead readers to think Einstein could well be wrong on

Another lost megalithic tomb unearthed. This time in western Norway. See https://www.archaeology.org/11903-231117-norway-neolithic-burial ... a stone lined tomb was discovered in Norway during construction work. It

The ruins of a 5000 years old tomb have been unearthed in Orkney  - see https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/oct/21/a-neolithic-feat-of-engineering-orkney-dig-reveals-ruins-of-huge-tombs ... In fact, all the archaeological action appears to