In the News

At https://phys.org/news/2023-06-didnt-big-collapse-giant-black.html ... why didn't the Big Bang collapse into a giant black hole? It is thought the latter are the remnants of a massive

William sent in this one. Britain fires up coal power station because of the hot weather - see https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/britain-fires-coal-plant-weather-185612922.html ...  it seems the National Grid

At https://phys.org/news/2023-06-seismic-convey-lithospheric-delamination-mechanism.html ... use of  seismic body waves in the South China lithosphere found anomalies which could be interpreted as lithospheric blocks at 90 km

This was an intriguing story, particularly as it seemed to upset the applecart of evolution by gradual progression, but also by reason nobody in the

At https://phys.org/news/2023-06-jet-streams-mars-magnetosheath.html ... just like the earth, mars has jet streams - in the magnetosheaf. It is faster and denser than its surroundings. .................................. UFOs

Explosion in space, the consensus view of supernova and novae in general - see https://phys.org/news/2023-06-average-space-explosion-baseline-array.html ... the research was based on a telescope array, VLBA,

At https://phys.org/news/2023-06-roadblocks-limits-geoscientists-alaska-denali.html ... this link concerns the Denali fault that arcs across Alaska to neighbouring Yukon. It is thought to be responsible for raising the

At https://phys.org/news/2023-06-lingering-effects-neanderthal-dna-modern.html ... recent discoveries show that Neanderthal genes comprise up to 4 per cent of the genome of modern humans. They add, who migrated

At https://phys.org/news/2023-06-parker-solar-probe-flies-fast.html ... the Parker solar probe flies into a jet of fast solar wind. It encountered streams of high energy particles that match the

At https://phys.org/news/2023-06-lost-giants-reveals-decline-abundance.html ... the diversity  and abundance of elephants in Africa was much greater in the past. Using fossil evidence a new study looks at

At https://phys.org/news/2023-06-el-nino-early-big-sloppy.html ... as the media gots overheated at the prospect of an upcoming El Nino event we might like to ponder on why it

At https://spaceweatherarchive.com/2023/06/06/how-big-was-carringtons-sunspot/ ... the story starts off by having a joke at the expense of the so called fact cherckers. Ask Chat GPT how big

At https://phys.org/news/2023-05-x-ray-emissions-black-hole-jets.html ... added this in order to keep abreadst of rapidly incoming new research on black holes. Black hole jets emit X-rays, we are

At https://phys.org/news/2023-05-experimental-microbes-powered-electricity.html ... we've heard about this sort of thing at Electric Universe talks, and videos, all very cutting edge and speculative. Now we seem

Seems like another well established consensus theory might not be up to scratch. Mountain building. At https://phys.org/news/2023-06-uncover-rethink-mountains-built.html ... but just how do mountains form? This

At https://phys.org/news/2023-05-webb-telescope-towering-plume-saturn.html ... astronomers using the James Webb telescope have spotted a towering plume of water vapour estimated to be 6000 miles in length. It

Tony Haynes, a former chairman of SIS, was keen on fusion technology and the prospect of cheap power. At https://phys.org/news/2023-05-small-fusion-temperatures-hotter-sun.html ... we are told that

At https://phys.org/news/2023-05-antarctic-dry-valleys-havent.html ... the high elevation McMurdo dry valleys of interior Antarctica - this time, the bigger part of Antarctica, the actual coninental chunk and

At https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2023/05/31/rocks-beneath-antarctic-ice-sheet-reveal-surprising-past-i-e-natural-variation/ ... natural cycles are well documented in earth history. One only needs to think of the Roman warm period or the Mid Holocene

An interesting story at https://phys.org/news/2023-05-overfishing-linked-rapid-evolution-codfish.html ... cod fishing in the North Atlantic has been going on for centuries, with people fishing on the Newfoundland Banks