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At https://www.quantamagazine.org/standard-model-of-cosmology-survives-jwsts-surprising-finds-20230120/ ... and https://dnyuz.com/2023/09/02/the-story-of-our-universe-may-be-starting-to-unravel/ ... which has the title - the story of our universe may be starting to unravel. It's all down to

In the same issue of Current Archaeology, 403, on the very next page, 13, we have news of the discovery of 25 Mesolithic pits at

At https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0287719 ... as per Current Archaeology 403 [Sept/Oct 2023]. The relevant link is Science Reports on page 12. Here we have a picture of

This one is a lot more complicated - and there is a lot more verbaige at the two links. These are https://judithcurry.com/2023/09/01/geophysical-consequences-of-celestial-mechanics/ ... the post

Gary sent in the link https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-have-made-a-discovery-that-could-change-our-understanding-of-the-universe/ ... which is a press release from Queen Mary university in London. Scientists have discovered universal constants - as

William sent in the link https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/one-longest-dino-tracks-world-202823697.html ... a drought in Terxas has led to the discovery of around 70 dinosaur tracks - in a dinosaur

In this instance, a temporary affair going by the video - which may change. At https://spaceweather.com on September 6th, we learn that Comet Nishimura on

Gary also sent in this link and concerns a Chinese sinkhole containing an ancient forest, 600 feet below the surface - see https://www.dailymail.co.uk/science-tech/article-12429387/ ... the

The Eocene-Oligocene boundary or transition event is also known as an extinction event - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eocene_Oligocene_extinction_event ... which has a condensed version of the subject.

At https://phys.org/news/2023-08-ancient-bee-burrows-neanderthals.html ... Ralph Solecki, back in the 1960s, came up with the idea of a 'flower burial' - a hypothesis that a Neanderthal skeleton

One of the big stories of the week. Garys sent in the link https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/08/we-dont-understand-how-a-freakishly-heavy-exoplanet-could-have-formed/ ... a huge planet, 73 times the mass of the earth,

At https://phys.org/news/2023-08-sahara-space-billion-years-upends.html ... unusual rocks containing distinctive green crystals were found in a dune filled region of the Sahara desert. The region is known as

This is an interesting story and it really hinges around dating methodology - see https://science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abo3594 ... We now have a pre-Younger Dryas megafaunal extinction at

How did the ice  cap first form on Antarctica? At https://phys.org/news/2023-08-mssissippi-mud-reveals-secrets-antarctica.html ... professes to know the answer. Wegener's continental drift is not mentioned. This is

See https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2302283120 ... or https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2302283120 ... these are abrupt climate transitions between stadial and interstadial conditions during glacial periods. In this instance the glacial period

Wal Thornhill, before he died earlier this year, or was it last year, predicted that the James Webb Space Telescope, when it started sending back

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