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Gary sent in a link to a New Scientist piece on the Great Unconformity - a huge piece of missing geology. As the source was

At https://phys.org/news/2023-08-late-pleistocene-glaciations-terminated-earth.html ... the headline here is that new research finds Late Pleistocene glaciations weere terminated by earth's axis tilt rather than orbital eccentricity. They

At https://phys.org/news/2023-08-outskirts-supermassive-black-hole-accretion.html ... the centre of galaxies are a turbulent environment. It is thought this is because they harbour an actively feeding supermassive black hole.

At https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-discover-300000-year-old-giant-handaxe-in-rare-ice-age-site/ ... This struck a chord with me. I have handled, and looked at, many stone axes and handaxes over the years. Admiration for

Interesting  appraisal of Long Covid at https://scitechdaily.com/unmasking-the-long-covid-mystery-new-study-reveals-cause-of-muscle-weakness/ ... Long  Covid is debilitating and symptoms hang on for months - and months. A potential cause for

At https://scitechdaily.com/we-were-freaking-out-scientists-explore-dinosaur-coliseum/ ... scientists discovered and documented a single dinosaur track site in Alaska, and were blown away. The location is known as the coliseum.

At https://www.quantamagazine.org/two-students-unravel-a-widely-believed-math-conjecture-20230810/ ... the work was posted at the pre-print server https://arxiv.org ... with the purpose of encouraging other mathematicians to look at it and

The story is at https://phys.org/news/2023-08-paleoaltimetry-assumptions-formation-himalayas.html ... and https://scitechdaily.com/600-million-year-old-time-capsule-new-discoveries-from-the-himalayas-shed-light-on-earths-past ... which was sent in by Gary. A new paper in Nature Geoscience has measured historic altitudes

The furore around Fermilab's latest findings is typified by this BBC link - https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-66407099 ... Pallab Ghosh reported on a recent finding at Fermilab in

William sent in the link https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/largest-asteroid-impact-crater-earth-120000726.html ... which is about verbatim to  https://phys.org/news/2023-08-evidence-world-largest-asteroid-impact.html ... the Deniliquin structure recently found in New South Wales. It is

A https://spaceweather.com ... [August 17th 2023] .... Japanese astronomer Hideo Nishimura, discovered a new comet, currently visible by small telescope in the Gemini constellation. It

At https://phys.org/news/2023-08-sacred-astronomical-observatory-middle-neolithic.html ... the Goseck circular earthwork enclosure  looks like a forerunner to Stonehenge - without the stones. You may note the title has -

At https://phys.org/news/2023-08-huge-events-dominated-evolution-climate.html ... how to smooth out huge upheavals in the geological record - by using climate change to explain punctuated equilibrium in evolution. These

At https://phys.org/news/2023-08-scientists-climate-el-nino-factors.html ... some scientists, rather than continuing to ignore most of the hyperventilation by activists, are more ready to show a bit of resistance

At https://phys.org/news/2023-08-archaeologists-refute-comet-destroyed-hopewell.html ... a group of archaeologists, it seems, have refuted the idea that a  comet, but probably a meteor, was responsible for the demise

Excellent article by Marinus van der Sluijs at https://www.thunderbolts.info/2023/08/01/the-sun-man-3/ ... which concerns the squatting man image that crops up all over the place, especially in

An update on the Winchcombe meteor that landed on the driveway of a house in Winchcombe in Gloucestershire. It is currently housed in the Natural

William sent in the link https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/massive-solar-explosion-felt-earth-181455829.html ... On October 28th 2021, a huge burst of plasma and magnetised particles erupted from the Sun. The solar

The Chinese have never been keen on the Out of Africa theory, regarding it as region limited - as far as research. Most of the

The Evershed Effect is described at https://spaceweather.com ... of August 4th 2023. Sucking plasma out of sunspots, is one way to describe it. Material flying